DF500 Offset Base System - Inch

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About DF500 Offset Base System - Inch

Woodpeckers DF-500 Offset Base makes Festool's Domino joinery tool even better. It provides a much larger and more robust indexing platform that insures proper mortise geometry even when making large runs of cabinet and furniture parts. The system starts with a very flat and carefully machined plate that fastens securely to the base of either Domino. The reference surface that you will hold against your stock is made from the same material, with the same care, and is joined to the attachment plate with heavy-duty machine screws threaded into stout, 3/4" diameter stainless steel spacers. This design eliminates the possibility of fence drift even after repetitive cuts. By simply changing the spacers between the attachment plate and the reference plate, you can center your mortises precisely in five different material thicknesses, nominal 3/4" plywood (23/32"), 12mm and 18mm metric plywood (like Baltic Birch) and actual dimension 3/4" and 1/2" glue-ups and solid wood. There are .005" shims to tweak the mortise position. The outrigger comes in five sections that are carefully machined to precise 12" lengths. They are a triple T-track extrusion that's anodized then laser engraved with inch or metric scales. The center section is aligned to "0" with the Offset Base then extends 6" right and left. The second section can be locked in place on either side and its engraved scales continue from 6" to 18". With all five sections connected, the outrigger extends to 54" long. The complete "System" includes the Offset Base, five outrigger bars with connectors, five sets of spacers and four flip stops. It comes in a Systainer T-LOC case, fully compatible with your Festool cases.