Had a domino joint blow out on me in the middle of a job in Austin last Tuesday

I was cutting dados for a walnut bookshelf and one of my dominoes just split the board clean in half, wasted a $80 piece of wood. Anyone else had domino joints fail on them or did I just set the depth wrong?

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3 Comments

knight.dylan1mo ago

Could be the glue didn't grab right in that Texas humidity.

ninaowens1mo ago

But is that really enough to make it fail? Seems like a stretch.

luna_wright1mo ago

You sure it was the domino and not the wood? Walnut can have hidden stress sometimes. A clean split sounds more like a material flaw than a tool problem. I've seen boards with internal cracks just give out when you cut into them. Maybe you just got unlucky with that piece.