Festool Domino Machine Instruction Manual - page 60

We are now to the final illustrative project 

to show off the many, many different uses 

for the Festool Domino machine - the but-

terfly leaf table.

But, before we start into that one, let’s 

take a moment to talk about an easy way 

to place Domino mortises into thinner 

work pieces like edge banding.

Making the mortise cuts is easy, holding  

thinner or smaller pieces safely is not.

What I do is place thinner pieces on the 

top of the aluminum extrusion that forms 

the sides and ends of a Festool MFT.  

The top plate is higher than the aluminum 

extrusion by about 14mm so, as long as 

your work piece is wider than that, you 

can trap the work piece between the face 

of the Domino and the edge of the top 

while pushing down on the Domino fence 

to register and hold the material in place 

while you cut the mortise.  I also like to 

register the end of the piece against a 

stop so it can’t slide side to side while I 

am making the cuts, especially if I am us-

ing one of the spring loaded pins for end 

to mortise registration as I am doing in 

this example.