Festool Domino Machine Instruction Manual - page 24

the leg where in mates with the skirt to 

the outer most portion of the curve.  

Make the block that size square and a bit 

longer than the leg will be high.  Do not 

use Dominos to join these pieces to form 

your blocks as the leg curve is likely to go 

right through wherever you put the Dom-

ino tenon causing it to show once the 

legs are cut out.  Next, square up and 

dimension the leg blocks.  You can see 

the template I used to draw the cabrio leg 

outline on two adjoining faces of each 

block lying on the Festool MFT just be-

hind the leg block in the bottom picture.  

Next, place the four blocks together so 

the corner where the top of the cabrio leg 

outlines are common are all placed to the 

center of the stack.  Now roughly draw 

the outline of the square top of the leg on 

each block and draw an arrow pointing 

diagnonally out to what will be the outside 

of the cabrio curved leg.  

Behind the stack of four leg blocks you 

can see the glue up for the top.  That was 

done using Domino M&T as described in 

the previous section under “edge-to-

edge” joints.

Now set up the Domino machine to cut 

the leg-to-apron mortises in each face of 

each leg blank as shown.  I wanted the 

skirts to be inset from the legs by 15mm 

and the skirts to be 20mm thick.  So I set 

the fence on the Domino machine to be 

25mm up from the cutter centerline as