Have you considered using dowels for joinery? (yes, I lust for a Mafell DDF/P 40 Duo Dowel System)
Or a floating tenon? (The Festool patent on their Domino is expiring this year, and apparently clones are already showing up on Ali Express, and Kreg just announced)
The Beadlock from Rockler seems to combine aspects of both and is far more affordable.
Yes.
I am not a trained woodworker, do not have much experience with dowels, especially I do not have an impression how strong that would be for furniture legs, since I am rather on the heavier site of mankind the stuff I make to sit on should hold something. With this kind of joints I know it holds like made from one piece, has a large glue surface.
With the few items I make a Festool is by far too pricey. And also needs another learning curve.
Cutting the joints needs some additional work placing, adjusting, measuring, and rather complex clamping (compared to the CNC-joints)
I also think that it might be worth it to make one thing without break in stock flow, one step, one tool before gluing.
Yes, the armchair that Kevin presented a while ago is on my agenda. Not on top, but eventually. I also intend to transfer it to the “flat” joints, I just do not trust the joints to carry my weight, and friends I make that stuff for should be safe too. The woodie stool I uploaded here serves in my urology office in upstate NY, was intended to be there for purses or bags. You would be surprised how many and how heavy people decide to sit on such a furniture.
FWIW, I did look at mortise and tenon joinery at:
Will, yes, TY! These 90deg-joints I use often, however it took a while to understand how dogbones work, and how deep to cut the mortise to be kept hidden etc, worked well with this one IMO:
I love when you make something with very nice joinery - and it’s in the laundry room 
This is when you know you’re in a woodworker’s house. I have some of the nicest dog-waste disposal stations, ever. LOL.
I have a Jessem Pocket Mill Pro with the workstation to make loose tenons that use the Festool Domino tenons. The Jessem version can make dowels with their doweling kit. The Jessem versions are not cheap but work well. Jessem worked with Kreg and have a cheaper version of the Pocket Mill Pro.
Kreg Version
I just saw an advertisement that Kreg is going to have a domino like machine.
Kreg has really stepped up their product offerings.
Yeah, implied the Kreg’s existence in my post above — there’s been some lengthy discussion of it over on the Festool Owner’s Group forum.
The guy that I sold my Pro XXL to told me his wife said, “You are not going to fill up the house with a bunch of wood crap”.
I have been woodworking for a long time. After a while you saturate friends and family with your output. I have recently started selling some things through a friends booth at a store on main street in Nacogdoches Texas. He also has a booth at the weekly farmers market and has some of my stuff there as well. The prospect of making money is not very important to me but I certainly wont turn it down. There is a thin line between hobby and money making. Once you cross the line from hobby to money making it becomes a JOB. I worked 45 years and dont want another job in my retirement. Passive selling is as far as I want to go into the money making realm. Often here on the forum people nearing retirement want to get a CNC to supplement their retirement income. My advise is if you cannot afford to retire on what you already saved then just keep working. Retirement is supposed to enable you to enjoy what you have worked all those years to achive.
