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    Making Dominoes with a CNC Router

    Jan 06, 2020 4 minutes
    By Rob Johnstone

    was looking over some very old issues of recently. In the May/June 1981 issue, I spotted a very basic plan to make a set of dominoes. While 1981 may seem a long time ago to some of us, dominoes are much older still — developed sometime around 1100 A.D. in China. They migrated to Europe in the 1800s and have been a part of western culture ever since. And as a fellow who has spent some time in cafes in the southern United States, I can report that dominoes remain popular in a variety of games. So with all this history and old-school credibility, why would I look to a CNC

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