Justifying the Donino.

BTY I will use $6.72 worth of 5mm Domino's tenons to in these mortices'.

CRAP Strike that, $3.36 worth of 5mm Domino tenons.

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All I have to say is ... Wow!

Leon, I don't know why you did that, but I never thought of the Festool as a recreational machine.

Although $5 - $6 is pretty cheap for an hour's entertainment, wouldn't it be easier to just sit in your garage and smoke a cigar and think about things?

I know years ago when I got my PC biscuit machine I used to arrange play dates with it. I slotted everything that needed it and then some. But now as B.B. says 'the thrill is gone".

Seriously, you up to something?

Robert

You remember my pantry? I am building 3 book cases, upper and lower units on each with the same construction detail. The lower cabinet unit will be 16" deep x 30.75" tall by 40" wide, The upper cabinet unit will be 12" deep x 49" tall by 40" wide. All in white oak with clear varnish, no two tone, and plain glass.

So altogether 24" wider than my pantry and about 16" shorter.

NO DRAWERS!, just doors with arched tops in the inner sections

The Domino is not as light weight as most biscuit cutters that I have used, it starts getting kinda heavy at about 100 mortices. ;~) But imagine doing this with a router, or bench top mortiser. Th only other way I would want to do this is with a multirouter.

Well it took me that many words to count the slots and tenons. ;~)

How is the desk coming along?

Two Times! LOL

Using his fingers and toes he can only count to 19 1/2. :-)

-MIKE- wrote in news:jguh4t$42s$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

Perhaps the problem was he was trying to count them as he set them up, and kept knocking them down. ;-)

Puckdropper

Why? Or What for?

Ah.... you remember old "stubby". LOL

One more thing that the domino tenons excel at which I would have never though of doing with biscuits.

When matibg two pieces with these 5mm domino's I can glue and tap the pieces together, lift by the top piece, rotate 180 degrees, and then attach the opposite side. The domino's hold the parts together before the glue dries. Basically parts stay in place with no fear of parts coming apart from their own weight..

The subject has been bugging me all day... Why on earth does it have to be justified? Why can't we just buy stuff because it strikes our fancy on a whim? So what if it only gets used occasionally if it makes us happy? I've got some tools that don't get used often but when I need them I NEED them... and when I need them I say to myself "I'm glad I bought this."

I think you guys need more practice if you are locked into this "justify" mind set... ;~)

John

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:30:26 -0600, Leon

Perhaps you finally got to Dominoing again because you managed to get it back after loaning it to Swingman? You gotta watch out for that guy. He's got a real fixation with your Domino.

Domino. But not available yet.

Don't look now, but you just proved that you, yourself, were "justifying" the purchase with a "need", no matter how occasionally that need arose. :)

I think you need to think a bit more about what you said and why you even took exception to someone's "justification", especially when he was pretty damn specific about what that was?

Every tool purchase, at a price level that is determined by the user and according to his need, has a "justification" for purchase.

Except for the bargain table at the Borg, and maybe even then, I would love to hear your explanation for when that is not always the case?

Leon wrote in news:6dudnQ9FBbqkLK snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Looked thru some/most of your pics. Nice stuff.

First off... it was tongue in cheek. ;~) Point was buy it... enjoy it... if it turns out that you use it a lot and it's a quality tool you'll forget what you paid for it. If you use it and it's junk you'll never forget what you paid. If you don't use it and stumble across it years later you may not even remember buying it...

Yes, price is an issue. Everyone has a price point/budget that comes into play when making purchases. In my woodworking club there are guys who drop many thousands without blinking an eye and there are guys who agonize over seemingly trival and relatively inexpensive items. Most fall somewhere in between.

Over time I've had occasion to purchase tools, including stationary tools, that were of no clear use to me at the time but they struck my fancy. My

"It's cheap" led me to buy a LOT of stuff in January 2004 when Woodworker's Warehouse went out of business. The last couple days things were selling for a few pennies on the dollar, e.g., I think I paid $1 for a table saw side table that I set up as an out feed table and a buck a piece for things like shaper rub bearings. Some of that stuff is still brand new in the wrapper all these years later. While rearranging the drawer for my shaper stuff this evening, to make room for three new cutters, I came across a large ogee cutter that I forgot I had from the WW purchases. It's so big that 5/4 or

Perceived need drives some purchases... existing tools could serve. Variety makes things more interesting... biscuits, pocket screws, mortise and tenon, nails... all could be used but corrugated fasteners and staples could work took. Gotta have them all. ;~)

John