"carbonejim" wrote in message

The end result was the faces aligned closer than before, but I still
have a little work to smooth out the joints.

Because I do so many FF's, I use Kreg's big steel clamping plate inlaid in a
flat piece of ply. This is possibly the best investment to insure that you
don't have a lot of that kind of cleanup work to do, but most would likely
need to do enough on a regular basis to justify the expenditure, although
it's not that much considering the time it saves.

I still think pocket screws are the best way to join these pieces. I
love the fact that the screw pulls together the joint so I don't have
to wait for the glue to dry before moving to the next joints.

Actually, gluing the end grain of the rails to the stiles probably doesn't
give you much bang for the buck gluewise. Depending upon how you apply your
FF to the cabinet casework, you may be better off not bothering to glue.

If your FF is going to be glued to the casework, and particularly if there
are grooves involved, in most cases I wouldn't bother with glue.

I've got pocket hole joints on jigs that have have seen a lot of abuse that
were not glued and they're still strong years later.

Wouldn't the Domino require some drying and clamping?

The Domino is "loose/floating" tenon joinery and will absolutely require
high standards of glue-up to work at all.


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