Festool Domino (Cheating on the Blog)

it sure makes it look easy!!

(good creative thinking re: the photos). I check all the blogs and the projects, so, for me, this isn't an issue.

I loved my bisquit cutter when it first showed up and I'm thinking this looks like a great idea.

We'll help you figure out the deal with the photos…

I've used a horizontal boring machine to do mortises before, but figured the only way I could do them at home was the good old fashioned way. (or perhaps going the beadlock route. Happy with what I've been able to do with the biscuit joiner, but I wouldn't attempt a table with one…

Think my wife would let me justify the purchase for the Obi/Karson table challenge?

Man… How much fun would one of those be? I don't even want to think about it.

Maybe I can motivate myself to make and sell some projects with the "reward" being a Domino.

(Oh, and the answer is no, Scott, I don't think she'd count that as justification…)

If Mark can't get his own M&M's I'm not even going to ask for the Domino. Unless the tax return fairy is criminally good to us this year.

Guys (generic term that includes the ladies), I'm telling you this thing is as easy to use as a biscuit joiner, and it is more appropriate than biscuits to use on a table.

I am currently working on a table for an exhibit of "green" building practices (I am getting photos). The only thing I could think of was, "Man, I have to do 8 mortise and tenons." I have a Grizzly G0448 Floor Model Mortising Machine, and a WoodRat for cutting the tenons on. Two very sweet machines, and all I could think of was the Domino. I am thinking of going to the distributor and asking if I could use it again. It won't be released until April 1 (No Foolin').

This brings up a question of morality for me, am I cheating on the tools to which I am already betrothed? I'm turning into a mess over this.

I admit, it's a dilemna for me. The Domino or the Lamello….me thinks the Domino

Yeah over here in Australia they got this machine over a year ago, and it is the best tool to come around in a long time. It is the easiest thing to use and will make anything that you are building using mortise and tenon joinery a whole lot faster.

You might think that it is a biscut machine but it is far from that, and a lot better.

Just my 2 cents

Think Domino.

By the way Kaleo. I was checking out your work - Nice.

Todd -

I can help you post "itty bitty" pictures.

That sure is a great tool. I have seen Marc use it on The Wood Whisperer. The most recent issue of Handyman Magazine features it and performs some tests. I understand the tool will be about $650. This tool will go on my 'wish list'.

For anyone who uses mortise and tenon joinery this is the way to go. In my opinon, other revolutionary tools were the biscuit cutter and the router.

I second Kaleo's remark. When this machine first hit the market, all we heard was how expensive it was. But as time progressed the people who had purchased them started ranting about how this tool revolutionized their work. Easy of use, speed and absolute accuracy were the features that stood out.

About six months ago, I spent an afternoon with a guy who owned one and watched him use the Dom in a number of situations. I gave it a try, and must say that I was very impressed. If more of my work was larger furniture pieces, I wouldn't hesitate to buy one, but at over AU$1200, it's a little difficult to justify, especially for making small boxes.

You could make BIG boxes Don, or at least ones with thick (nearly bulletproof) sides.

"Heres my latest box, Huon pine, 9×9 inches square, made out of 16/4 stock!... Holds one marble, or an engagement ring"

I think Imma stick to my hmemade router jig, and then plane down some 1/2" material to 3/8 and a roundover bit to make my own tenons inabling me to make as long or short or wide of tenons as I please.

When I get rich, Imma buy the Leigh Mortise/Tenon Thingy … there I go using the Thingy word again.

It is definately on the wish list. Right behind a new bandsaw, flat panel sander, palm router, etc. Lol. I could go on for quite a while.

I want one and I don't even build furniture!! Oh way-we have 2 garbage bins. I think they could have used the Domino. Yah… It's on my wish list too.

Nice tool Todd. I could definetly use one. mike

Glad to see the pictures and write up about the Domino. It sounds great and hopefully will be in the budget soon. It would make life much easier than the processes I go through now for M&T joints.

It sounds a bit faster than my beadLock system, but for the price, I'll have to stick with the beadLock system for a while. Thanks for the pictures and information.

I am very excited about this tool. I have other FesTools and am very impressed with them. Thanks for your insight. I'll probably own one.
Ryan

I wonder where the break even point is. I would seem that it would pay for itself in a professional setting pretty quickly.

I would love to play with one, but do not think I could ever justify it. Given that I have never sold a thing. Everything I make has been given away.