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Create Domino Mortises for Glue-Up

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Reclaimed Wood Dinning Table

What happens here

To achieve a flat and stable glue-up while working with slightly imperfect reclaimed wood, use a Festool Domino joiner to cut mortises along the long edges of the boards. This tool creates precise, rectangular holes. The goal is to create a series of mortises that will perfectly align the boards when assembled with corresponding tenons, preventing shifting during clamping. Ensure that most of the tenons are loose-fitting within their mortises to allow for wood movement, but one central tenon should be tight-fitting to lock the alignment.

Goal: Utilize a Festool Domino joiner to create mortises along the edges of the prepared boards, which will house tenons to ensure precise alignment and stability during the glue-up of the tabletop.

Tools and materials

  • Clamps (Bar Clamps
  • Pipe Clamps)
  • Festool Domino Joiner (DF 500 Q)
  • Pencil/Marker
  • Reclaimed Douglas Fir Boards

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without having the wood move too much so you kind of get what you pay for so that's really exciting [Music]

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