Now let’s construct the rail, stile and ma-
ple burl back panel. The doors will be
done the same way. We saw earlier how
I now use Domino M&T joints cut inside
the tongue and groove joints of the rail
and stile components to both reinforce
these joints and to make them self-
aligning.
With normal rail and stile construction
when you clamp up the assembly the rail
pieces with the tongues cut in their ends
can slide down the groove cut in the stile
pieces leaving the assembly either out of
square or with an unsightly gap between
the edge of the rail and the end of the
stile.
The Domino M&T eliminates that mis-
alignment by holding the edge of the rail
flush with the end of the stile speeding up
the whole process by much more than
the time required to cut the Domino mor-
tises in the first place. That is what I call
a real win-win.
The same is true with respect to place-
ment of intermediate stiles as we will see
shortly on the back assembly for this
piece. Normally you have to measure
and mark the location for those and make
sure the intermediate stile stays in the
right place while you glue up and clamp
up. On many occasions that turns out to
be quite a time consuming process.
Well, watch here while the back rail, stile
and panel components go together. The
Domino M&Ts keep it all aligned without
me having to do anything.
While this would not necessarily be
true for everyone, I can justify the cost
of the Domino machine for this one
reason alone!
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