I ditched my domino joiner for a 6 dollar shopmade jig

After 15 years of shelling out for fancy floating tenon cutters I finally tried cutting slots with a simple router and a piece of scrap plywood and honestly the results are tighter and it freed up space in my van, anyone else gone back to basics and felt like they were cheating before?

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dakota_nelson4312d ago

Does that jig let you cut multiple slots without resetting the depth? I've got a buddy who tried that route and ended up with inconsistent depths on every third cut.

patricialee12d ago

Mine has a depth stop collar with a set screw that locks in place, but the real trick is running a test cut on scrap first every time you swap bits - @dakota_nelson43 your buddy might be dealing with bit deflecting if he's pushing too hard on the third pass.

sandrat249d ago

That's exactly how my husband's old radial arm saw acted up on him back in the 90s.