Domino guys

[Gramps' shop]

Price dropped to $80 on set of four 500 cutters:

[krw]

I just filled mine out, one at a time. These cutters are used, though.

[Leon]

I must have a freaking great set of cutters! I have gone through the original 600 5mm tennons that came with the assortment, and a replacement case of 1800, and am into my 3rd bag of 300 from the second replacement case. I have cut at least 3,000 mortises with the original

5mm bit and half of those were set to cut wider than the narrowest cut. I do have the full set so I actually have an extra 5mm cutter which I have never used. I have heard that some people are having to replace their cutters, Am I getting a lot of mileage from my bit or have you made more cuts with yours?

[Leon]

OOPS! I must have made in excess of 6,000 cuts with the original 5mm bit to set 3,000 tenons.

[Gramps' shop]

Let's see ... at 10 seconds each, you've spent about 16.7 hours with the Domino. What do you figure your time investment for 3,000 tenons using other methods?

Larry

[krw]

Certainly not but my point was that one can hardly expect new prices from used equipment, particularly expendables. I wouldn't expect to get 70% of what I paid for the Domino the day after I bought it.

[none]

Yes you could. Festool has a very high resale margin.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Cutters? I saw the subject line and thought this was about pizza delivery guys.

[Leon]

I think closer to 3 seconds each actual plunge time, so about 5 hours. Similar sized mortises with a bench top mortiser, probably 75 hours.

A savings of around $3500 of my time. That not only pays for the Domino but the CT22 vac too, about 3 times.