Festool Domino Machine Instruction Manual - page 53

But, how do you hold the blood wood 

banding across the end grain of the ma-

ple top?  The top has to move front to 

back so you can’t just attach the 

blood wood to the top.

The solution was to add a 

dovetail groove to the inside of 

the blood wood and a dovetail 

stringer filling the space be-

tween the edge of the top and 

the outside edge of the torsion 

box stringer as shown in the 

photo on the previous page.  

Domino mortises were cut on 

the inside of the space-filling 

stringer and the outside of the 

torsion box stringer (shown 

here by the red arrow).  Domino 

tenons were glued to the dove-

tail stringer which is attached to 

the blood wood end banding. 

Then, after the top was com-

pleted, that assembly was 

glued into the mortises in the 

torsion box stringer.  That holds 

the blood wood edge firmly in 

place but the top plate is free to 

move, both sliding beside the 

blood wood and across the 

dovetailed torsion box stringer.

The lower photo shows the un-

derside of the torsion box top.  

The space between the dove-

tailed stringers running front to 

back to hold the top plate to the 

bottom portion of the torsion 

box were spaced to allow the two differ-

ent sized pedestals to fully support the 

top assembly no matter which pedestal 

was on which end.  More on that later.

The spaces between stringers support 

the slide-out work surfaces you saw a 

couple of pages back.  The slide-out work 

surfaces are what allow her to configure 

the work space to fit the requirements of 

her various projects.  The center pull-out 

is a shallow pencil tray that can be in-

verted to make yet another work space.