Simple Loose Tenon Joinery - Homemade Domino

very cool - especialy the sandpaper trick !

For your tennon stock, I take a long piece, use the router table to round the edges of the whole long strip, then cut the small pieces at the miter saw. Easy to batch out a long term supply in just a few minutes.

Simple but perfectly effective design. Out of many different takes on the subject this is the one worth making to me. Great content as always, thank you for sharing!

Some times Simple is really the best way I ve looked at a lot DIY tools that are designed to do the same thing that are so much more complicated than your design and probably don't work any better, so I am building your design- many thanks

You know, sometimes simpler is better. I've seen some really clever designs from Pask Makes and Stumpy Nubs and they look great, and I even tried my own design based on the Pask design with limited results. All these others use springs and pivots and, for me, the result was something that simply wasn't robust enough to give good, repeatable results. Simplifying the design to do the one task that you would use a Domino for maybe 80% of the time is a really good approach and removes a lot of the potential error in a more complex design. That router, tool only, is 50 bucks right now. Ryobi isn't my primary system but I do have a couple of tools (and batteries) that I bought for tasks that I didn't want to invest a lot in when I needed a tool for a specific purpose. I think I might try this, it would come in really handy.

Love this design, great but simple approach. The idea could easily be scaled up for larger tenons, with a 1/2 in collet router. You earned a sub; love the free plans.

Very impressive but I think I was even more impressed by the vice and the display cogs. Very cool.

Cool project cheap and simple. Perfect for me. Suggest buying and extra base for the router so you can still you it normally with out disabling your contraption. Nice work

I built it and it works! Thanks, the thing I like the best is that I can still use the router for ordinary tasks.

Looks like something I am going to make and try. The only suggestion is to be able to secure it to the table with a clamp so it doesn't move around. Great idea!

Perfect, simple, affordable, and accurate

Really nicely designed and presented, thanks!

Very simple and thoroughly explained. Thank you very much!

Now I need to see if I could modify this to fit my Dewalt router! This is so useful to prevent me from spending too much money on a tool I probably will use not very often! Great video.

Oh, I like this! Simpler design than the Stumpy Nubs one I just saw, and it's cordless. (And I already have the Ryobi trim router...) I see myself building this, or a slightly modified version in the near future. Thanks for showing your simple and effective design. 👍

Thanks for a great video. I will be making your design very shortly. The one thing that concerns me is the adjustability of the fence and how it might be easy to not keep it square. It isn't all that difficult to make so I'm thinking I'll make one for 3/4' stock and another for 1 1/2" stock. Another possibility is to make a bigger one and have shims to attache to the face to change the position for various thicknesses.

This is excellent. Sure beats $$$ for a Domino Jointer that I'd rarely use and the Ryobi cordless router is under $50 right now.

Life is too short for all the cool things that can be done. Awesome work!

This is the most simple , but most robust homemade ones I've seen to date. 👍👍👍👍👍

Great idea and nice deployment! Thanks for sharing!