mortises should be easy for you to
visualize. Here is the piece assem-
bled (minus top and doors), squared
up and waiting for the glue to dry. All
of the major joints are Domino M&T
joints so assembly is fast and self
aligning.
Now let’s revisit the sliding doors.
Earlier I said that the doors had to fit
snugly into the door openings to look
right. The problem with most sliding
doors is they have to fit loosely
enough to lift up into a top track to let
the bottom free of the bottom track to
get the doors in and out. That simply
looks bad and is not pleasing to use.
So, let’s use the Domino machine to
do something far more satisfying and
sophisticated, a sliding pin assembly
that can be withdrawn up into the
door itself and then lowered into the
door tracks once the snugly fitting
door is in place.
In the lower close-up photo you can
see that I cut two overlapping mor-
tises. One (10mm wide and maxi-
mum depth) is cut parallel
with and centered on the
bottom and top surfaces of
the door.
Then I turned the Domino
machine sideways and cut
a 5mm mortise centered
on the 10mm mortise both
side to side and top to bot-
tom.
A 10mm tenon was drilled
to accept a metal pin a bit
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