Domino Purchase
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Bob Marino
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Fred,
This may not directly answer your question, but of the Domino's I have sold, the overwhelming majority of sales are with the Domino set (joiner, cross and trim stops) and the Cutter and tenon assortment. There is a savings of $30.00 getting the stops now with the Domino, as opposed to later. Personally, I think they are very useful, particularly the trim stop, as makes mortising small stock a breeze.
Bob
This may not directly answer your question, but of the Domino's I have sold, the overwhelming majority of sales are with the Domino set (joiner, cross and trim stops) and the Cutter and tenon assortment. There is a savings of $30.00 getting the stops now with the Domino, as opposed to later. Personally, I think they are very useful, particularly the trim stop, as makes mortising small stock a breeze.
Bob
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Hi Fred,
You bet is the answer I would give. The Domino is all about positional accuracy and those pieces are very useful in helping achieve that accuracy quickly and easily.
Jerry
You bet is the answer I would give. The Domino is all about positional accuracy and those pieces are very useful in helping achieve that accuracy quickly and easily.
Jerry
bruegf said:
Fred,
I would definitely go with the set with Cross stop and Trim stop. You will find them useful from the first time you use the machine. Like Bob, most of my customers did purchase the set and of those that didn't, most came back to purchase them. Don't forget the domino assortment #493301.
I was surprised when Festool offered the "bare" tool with out the stops, but it makes sense as the actual products are separate when they come from Festool. Don't worry, it all fits great in the systainer.
I would definitely go with the set with Cross stop and Trim stop. You will find them useful from the first time you use the machine. Like Bob, most of my customers did purchase the set and of those that didn't, most came back to purchase them. Don't forget the domino assortment #493301.
I was surprised when Festool offered the "bare" tool with out the stops, but it makes sense as the actual products are separate when they come from Festool. Don't worry, it all fits great in the systainer.
clintholeman
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At $60 they are a bargain!!! I'll second the advice above - you'll use 'em all the time. Jerry's comment about Domino's precision is spot on!! And the accessories add materially to that.
As far as I am concerned the cross stop is not worth having; but the trim stop is essential.Gary Nichols
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I think if you used each attachment only once, it was $60 well spent.. uh, invested... And once you use them, you won't regret it, for you'll use them again & again. Each has become indispensable, and I've barely started using my Domino yet..... Besides, when was the last time you bought a Festool and were able to afford every available attachment made for it, at the same time? My next acquisition will be the OF 1400 EQ router. I'll have to make a few more Domino Payments on my Festool Visa Card first, and I already have eight routers, four in router tables, but no plunge router.... yet.... And the hole drilling kit & either rail will cost me more than the router itself!!....Same for my saw and two sanders. Festool tools are "Attachment Intensive".. So a mere $60 more for all the known Domino attachments? You'll be getting off easy, I'd say....
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MarkF said:"This hobby is starting to get as expensive as boating!"
The difference is w/Festool the two happiest days of ownership are the day you get it and then each day you use it. With a boat it's the day you get it and the day you sell it.
Back in the bad old days before I could concentrate on woodworking, I had a client who bought himself a boat when he became an ex-client because he sold his business. A 'tank of gas' as I think you say over there (in 1989) was in the region of $30,000. I would have thought that a woodworker would prefer a sail boat. Just an idea.
Must have been a large yacht for a tank of fuel to cost 30K. Actually I had sailboats for over 20 years before switching to power because the winds were always so fluky on Lk Michigan whenever we tried to go cruising - always ended up motoring most of the way. One day I just got fed up with it and decided if I had to motor most of the time I wanted a power boat so I could actually get somewhere instead of plodding along at 5 kts. When I was (much) younger I used to think I actually wanted to build my own boat. Thank god I got over that notion.....
Fred
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