Festool Domino Machine Instruction Manual - page 56

With the top completed it was 

time to deal with the pedestals.  

One pedestal was to be drawers 

while the other was to hide the 

tower computer and the periph-

erals.  That pedestal was de-

signed so the side you can’t see 

in these photos is open.  When 

she changes computers, shelf 

holes drilled in the insides of that 

pedestal will allow a shelf to be 

added and it can become a 

bookcase.

Now, what if in a future location 

the bookcase pedestal needs to 

be turned around so it is open to 

the inside of the space between the ped-

estals?  Or, what if she wants to swap 

pedestals side to side to put the drawers 

on that side?  Or, what if she wants to 

have the desk in the center of a room and 

access to the drawers from what normally 

would be considered the “back” of the 

desk?

The answer to this set of questions was 

to make the pedestals look exactly the 

same on both the front and the back and 

also to make them look the same side to 

side even though they are different 

widths.  

Good solution, but we will need to deal 

with the wood movement issues since the 

back of the drawer pedestal and both 

ends of the open pedestal need wide 

grain solid maple from top to bottom to 

simulate the look of the drawer fronts, 

and the sides of each pedestal are rail, 

stile and panel components where the 

long grain of the side stiles will be running 

across the wide grain of the faux drawer 

fronts.

I thought long and hard about that one 

until I remembered the slick Domino dou-

ble mortise sliding door pin idea.  This 

time I cut wide mortises for 10mm tenons 

along the edge of the side stiles and a 

mating 5mm mortise running the same 

direction on the inside face of the side