Michael Kellough said:L2theP said:call your festool rep, and i don't mean your local supplier, i mean the festool representative for your area and ask if anyone is up from Germany showing off a couple prototypes, don't take my word for it, see yourself. In the mean time i'm goint to try to see if my rep will be kind enough to snap a few for me and email them.
Roger got the same visit a week and a half ago in Malibu
but I got the impression he was supposed to keep mum about it.....
During my visit it was quite important for the festool designer from Germany to get feedback on the acceptance of the impact driver and what possible uses and how people react to the mega sized domino + it's capabilities.
I'm extending his visit by opening this thread in order to see how many people would be interested in such tools, what kind of initial response people have towards these new tools etc....
They aren't in the top secret weapon business so i don't think that my thread is doing anything other then helping festool see feedback on these items which is the main reason why they sent a German engineer out here to see what we likes and what we dislikes.
the engineer stated that the impact is only coming out in the USA as there is no market for it in Europe, i'm pretty sure that every festool user in the states is going to be all over that impact driver.
That's the least i can do after getting that cool domino keychain (part# 058 183).
John Stevens said:L2theP said:Secondly the mega domino joiner, all features of the initial domino joiner except it bores dominos up to 14mm and they are like 5" long, you can join 3 pieces of 2x2 stock with a single domino, these things were massive along with the bits. The machine still fit in a systeiner 2 but it was so cool it bore about 3" deep into the stock. the rep said that the mega domino will go for 900$ and the entire set with the starter kit and dominos will go for 1500$ [snip] These are all prototypes and were said to be out on the us market within the next year and a half.
Cool! I can see it now...bridle joints and through-tenons in all my new furniture. At this very moment I'm trying to figure out how many convenience stores I'll have to rob to come up with $1500 for this thing, and hoping Rick Christopherson is working on a large version of his adjustable centering accessory.
Regards,
John
Keep in mind that this domino is not going to be compatible with the old tenons, this thing looks like one of those portable car dirt devil vacuum cleaners, it's humongo!! i mean the dominos were huge, so this is just going to be a big brother to the current domino.