Cutting Tenon Stock
I've got a box of 500 Domino tenons of various sizes, but the length of the tenons is fixed. I needed some short tenons for the top and bottom, and some longer ones that could join three pieces. So I found some scraps and started cutting some tenon stock.
Cutting to width first:
Cutting to thickness:
Rounding over at the router table:
It was actually about as fast to cut them to length by hand then to set up the bandsaw or tablesaw to do it for 12 tenons. Probably took about 5 minutes, tops.
This also gave me the opportunity to fix a mistake I had made where I ended up placing a Domino incorrectly, and had to cut another one adjacent to it. This sort of plug is called a 'dutchman'. Stuck the tenon stock in:
Trim to length with a flush-cut saw.
Plane it smooth with a flush plane.
Had I been thinking about it, I probably could have flipped the plug so the grain orientation would be a better match. However, this is on the inside back of the panel, and it will never be seen. So good enough.
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