IF YOU COULD use any joinery you wanted for your next project, rabbets,dados, through dovetails, half blind dovetails, sliding dovetails,mortise and tenon, through mortise and tenon, tenoned triple miterjoints, . . . AND make perfect joints - without hours of preciselayouts, without an hour of practice joints and test cuts - and almostwithout any tool set up(s). And let?s say that NONE of the joinerywill show - unless you want it to.HOW would THAT change what your next piece would be and how it would beput together?Coming at it from another direction - because dovetail jigs make itrelatively easy to dovetail a set of drawers or join the sides of acabinet to its top and bottom with through or half blind dovetails - doyou find you use dovetail joinery more often? Is the only thing that keeps you from using mortise and tenon joints, orloose tenon mortise and tenon joints, the time and skill it takes tomake them by hand, or the price tag and the learning curve of the jigsor machines that facilitate making them?I ask this question because, as a result of getting and using theFestool DOMINO, how I approach designing a project has changedsignificantly. And it is also changing the projects I?m consideringdoing.Here?s an example of how a tool can change your whole approach tothings.To avoid starting my first ?house furniture? project(s), I?m working onsomething to hide the garbage can and recycling baskets. The quick anddirty method would be to build it like building a redwood fence - 4x4posts, 2x4 upper and lower rail, with fence boards between them,captured between 1x1 strips - all held together with nails. Thisrequires the upper and lower 2x4 rails to be used with the widedimension paralleling the ground in order to leave room for the fenceboards AND the 1x1 strips on either side of the fence boards. But the rails would support more weight and be less apt to sag if theywere oriented with their narrower face horizontal. However, thatwouldn?t leave room for the...

couple of months and all were full of multiple ad's for "the DOMINO".It's certainly appears to be a foregone conclusion that it will have arevolutionary impact for making furniture in the home shoppe.AAMOF, there will soon be a new furniture "period" classification: "TheEarly 21st Century Domino Period".:)

How Would Your Designs and Project Selection Change IF . . .

Jun 10, 2007 21 Replies

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charlieb 19 years ago

Would having a vacuum pump and vacuum bag to make veneering possible without the need for a bunch of clamps or a veneer press change the types of things on your Projects List?

If you could laser cut veneer for a marquetry design, say from a scanned design or one you came up with using CAD, rather than having to saw things out, would marquetry become part of some of your future projects?

charlie b

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BillinDetroit 19 years ago

Yes. It would even influence the design of a couple of current projects.

Bill

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