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The Rejuvenating Properties of The Shed
Did I ever need yesterday (and a whole heap more required, but I’ll take what I can get!) Took a day off work yesterday because I really needed a bit of time out to recharge the batteries. Not to...
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Bathurst Weekend
It’s that time of the year again Bathurst 1000, Melbourne Wood Show, and Christmas quickly approaching. What has Bathurst got to do with the shed? I guess not much, other than it gets me up much...
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Play Table Progress
Made some progress over the weekend on a small play table. Still have the chair to make, but the hard part is done: starting! Firstly, I prototyped the leg and a part of the chair back. Play Table...
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Ideal Tools Furniture Making Courses
I’m now booked onto a Furniture Making course at Ideal Tools over in Williamstown – the Hall Table course. Hall Table, Example from Course I’d have liked to have done the chair course, but I am...
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Ideal Tools Woodworking Courses
10 days to go! Till the start of the chairmaking course (which I can’t make it to), and the Advanced Festool Domino course (which I can ) Wonder if they’d notice if I turned up with a sleeping bag, and...
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SSYTC004 Ideal Tools – Festool Mecca
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv) (Right-click, and select “Save Link As”) Best video quality is achieved by downloading then playing the mp4 version. Posted in Podcast Tagged:...
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SSYTC005 New Domino Jig from Terry Forgarty
Terry Fogarty runs the Domino and Furniture courses for Ideal Tools, and having owned and used the Domino in a production setting since they first went on sale just over 3 years ago, he is particularly...
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The Ideal Tools Workshop
After the weekend’s visit to Ideal Tools, I took a bunch of photos to give you a better idea of this resource. These are general ones of the location, I will post a second set that were taken during...
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Domino Course at Ideal Tools
The Domino course was a 1/2 day affair over in the Ideal Tools training facility/showroom in Williamstown, with Terry Forgarty presenting. Terry would have been one of the first people in the world...
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Just 1 Week to Hall Table Course (Postponed)
(Amendment – the course has had to be delayed, and at this stage is now the last weekend in August – see the new post about the change) I’m excited! Just one week to go till the start of a 6xSunday...
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The Hall Table Fable
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out!…. (no – stop channeling Charles Schulz and Snoopy) It was dark, well my memory suggests it was, but perhaps I just hadn’t opened my eyes...
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1001 Words
FesCool! Posted in Manufactures and Suppliers, Tools Tagged: AutoLoader, Cooltainer, Domino, Festool, RAS115, Rotex, Systainer, Termite
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Viva la Revolution
Back early 2006 (or early 2007 in the US), one of many revolutions in woodworking occurred, with the arrival on the scene of the Festool Domino. It caused quite a furor at the time! I was quite busy at...
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Domino Primary Features
Walking around the Domino, there are a number of features that control all aspects of the positioning of the mortises. Festool Domino The front support platform can both tilt through 90 degrees and be...
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Festool Domino Accessories
Like any tool, the Domino can definitely benefit from jigs, and Festool have produced some to add to the capabilities of the basic machine. Festool Domino Additional Stop / Support Bracket The...
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Toy Kitchen Build
Got to kick the build of 2 kids’ kitchens on quite a way, and made extensive use of the Festool Domino in doing so. The precise, and repeatable placement of mortises really came into its own, and...
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Continues….
Today was very much more of the same – I broke down the last 2 sheets of 2400×1200 MDF (one 12mm, the other 16mm) using a circular saw and a guide. I really have a very low opinion of circular saws –...
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Fitting a Boom Arm
Where it comes to actually working with hand-power tools there are a few inconveniences. One being the storage of a tool that has a power cable attached, and in a lot of cases with the Festool range,...
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It’s Time
At the Melbourne Working with Wood Show I had taken a slice of burl, and used the Torque Workcentre to start surfacing it as a demo of the TWC, and the idea quickly progressed as the timber talked,...
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Self-Centering Domino Jig
At last-year’s Festool press day, they ‘officially’ announced the DTS Engineering multistop jig as being a Festool product, despite it continuing to carry the DTS Engineering logo, which I found very...
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Tis the Season to Repair
Kindergarten is about to start again, so typically, I have a few jobs I promised that have been left until the 11th hour. Not much to do – a few of my road signs from last year that need running...
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That’s not a Domino…
This is a Domino!! and just in case you were wondering just how big that is…. These are the size of Dominos the original machine can handle: The Domino, and the Domino XL are two different machines,...
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Baby Bed Build Bis
Had a change to take another crack at the cot build this weekend, which was good – more progress. After last weekend, we had the bed itself built (as in the surround and support for the mattress), so...
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Small Steps
Probably seems like each ‘progress’ report is no different to the previous with the cot build, but there are a lot of small steps in between. Lots of small other things too – floating tenons (aka...
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Carcass and Top
Gave the toy kitchen project a good nudge today, despite the heat! I would have hoped to have more done, but it takes time dressing boards down from scratch, resizing and all. And I’m designing as I...
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Invisible Progress
More progress made today on the kitchen, but not much to actually show for it. A lot of the day was spent doing the same sort of activities as the past few: machining timber to size, joining it up with...
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A New Festool Domino! The Domino XL
5 1/2″ tenon length Multiple positioning stops 2 morticing widths (not 3??) Doesn’t do Dominos below 8mm, which is very limiting. Ugly, ugly looking machine, but if anything like other Festool tools,...
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