Festool DOMINO - a unique jointing system

The Festool DOMINO provides speed and precision without any compromise in strength. It is also versatile; just about any mortice and tenon joint can be cut with the DOMINO - even mortice and tenon mitre and compound mitres. It can replace the biscuit jointer and the resulting joints are stronger and more precise.

Resembling a biscuit joiner, its operation is just as simple. In this case with each plunge a straight (router like) cutter mills a precise slot mortice. Festool manufacture special DOMINO beech dowels (five sizes) which are effectively loose tenons used to join two mating mortices.

This jointing machine:
    • uses oval DOMINO shaped wooden dowels
    • patented routing principle
    • six stop positions for hole centres
    • depth stops at 12, 15, 20, 25 and 28mm
    • supplied in SYSTAINER case

The dowels are a precise fit in the mortices and bearing in mind a glue joint is stronger than the surrounding wood the DOMINO can produce exceptionally strong joints.

Furniture built using the DOMINO requires less timber; if a member is Xmm long it doesn't have to be cut to Xmm + (2 x TLmm). Many of us hate the brain overload caused by calculating a cutting list to include tenons and then always end up cutting one piece too short because we forgot about the tenon.
So there is a small saving in timber, plus potentially expensive waste through silly mistakes is avoided.