Festool’s Domino DF 500 joiner is a wonderful tool for slip-tenon joinery. However, it can be challenging to register it on the ends of narrow pieces, whether mitered or square. While Festool offers attachments for mortising narrow parts, they are somewhat limited in use. The alternative is making your own jigs to register the joiner on narrow work.

Lee Valley’s new Veritas Joinery Table solves this problem and makes all sorts of other Domino joinery easier and more accurate, on both square and mitered pieces. Made of Baltic-birch plywood and topped with laminate, with a rigid base that clamps easily to the workbench, the table uses the threaded holes in the Domino’s base to mount it in line with a long aluminum fence. A Baltic-birch side fence registers workpieces at 90° or 45°, where they can be locked securely with pivoting clamps.

I especially like the setup gauge that lets you reverse the plywood fence’s position accurately from one side of the Domino to the other, for mortising all of the parts of a frame, whether square or mitered. There are slots and threaded inserts in the table to hold the fences and clamps provided, plus any shopmade fences you choose to add.

Right out of the box, I made a small mitered frame that would have been clumsy to mortise with the Domino alone; it took just 5 minutes with the table. And I was able to make the mortises tight for easier assembly, instead of having to leave wiggle room to compensate for slightly inaccurate setups.

The Veritas Domino Joinery Table is a great addition to a great tool. My only quibble is that it isn’t compatible with the larger Domino DF 700.

—Roland Johnson is a contributing editor.

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From Fine Woodworking #307

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