Not sure this thread was ever about woodwork, but yes, let's give it a shot. So @TRITON, have you bought that Domino yet?
Am I imagining this or was it in one of your videos, you showed your workshop was across the road from your house? I might be getting you mixed up with someone else, but I recall my workshop envy going up a few notches when I saw thatThank you. And please, your thread - post / repost what you like! My workshop is about 280 sq ft but split into two rooms, so the actual workspace side isnāt much bigger than yours - though you canāt beat a decent chunk of storage! I had to be reasonably organised just to get thought the kind of work I did, but if itās the workspace you have, then you have to make it work!
.Yep, thatās mine; itās why I put up with its many shortcomings - an honest to goodness, small affordable commercial workspace thatās 30 seconds away - if I have to wait to cross the road. If only it was a little bit bigger...Am I imagining this or was it in one of your videos, you showed your workshop was across the road from your house? I might be getting you mixed up with someone else, but I recall my workshop envy going up a few notches when I saw that
I really like your workshop and even the 'untidy' end is still way more tidy than mine.
Having watched the promotional video many times trying to get a better understanding of these things I concluded that they are fiddly, to many bits and adjustments for a limited use and I also tread carefully when a product has a name such a Peanuts, do not like something with a name that has no bearing on the product or it's function. Where does a peanut come into play, it is certainly not the cost.
Positioning the biscuit slots ..Regards from Perth
Derek
I think you're in error. The DeWalt biscuit/plate jointer can also be set up to reference off the outer point of the mitre, as I described earlier, so that ability isn't exclusive to the Lamello machines. I've been doing mitre biscuits using that technique with my DeWalt for perhaps three decades, or more, now. Having said that, I've always found the Lamello machines are generally superior to any other brand I've used, although I've never owned one, just used other people's when I've worked for them from time to time. Slainte.
Oh dear, you are going to find the modern world very difficult.
You are absolutely right; my error. And the Domino can be adapted to reference off the sharp point too; there is a YouTuber from France showing how it can be done, somewhere.
Heaven forfend anyone should seek the audacious deployment of simile and metaphor on this forum; it might upset the concrete thinkers.
so maybe in 5 years we'll start seeing more versions on the market, and no doubt a considerable drop in price.
How long do patents last, before other companies can make use of the technology before launching their own version ?. I seem to remember it's something like 20 years... Again, seem to remember its something like 2005 or 2006
I just bought a domino today so I hope you are right20 years from the first filing, so perhaps as early as 2024?? But I think itāll play out more like the tracksaw market; established manufacturers first, coming in at the same - or slightly lower - price point that Festool have established. Then, years after, we get OK quality copies, before finally after a decade or so we get genuinely useful budget options.
Except of course, saws - even plunge saws - are relatively simple compared with something like a domino.
As @JobandKnock says above, look at the attempts to copy the duo-doweller - literally two drill bits, all you have to do is make sure that point in the same direction and engineer a halfway-decent fence - but the likes of Triton canāt even manage that after how many years of trying? So, given the relative complexity, engineering-wise, of the Domino I donāt see it working out for the budget makers, certainly not for a while.
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If that was the case, they wouldnāt have a patent or any clout when it came to enforcing it, which isnāt evident from the number of competing designs available on the market.
