Midweek 249: Plant pots and Dominos

For Behind the Scenes, Marking Out and At The Bench members

Hi everyone. A little domestic trivia for you today where I need to drill a few drainage holes in some composite plant pots, and I take the cordless Domino for a bit of a more considered run out to see what cordless really means in a tool like this.

As you may have noticed from the weekend video, the battery location really doesn’t help with the handling, and - ironically - the handle doesn’t help much either. The little plastic support foot/bracket - always lightweight, I felt - really feels inadequate and not fit for purpose; I can see a lot of TSO Big Foot and Benchdogs Base systems sold on the back of this design.

Bizarrely, fitting a Domino plate of some kind - the Seneca DomiPlate, the 10MW QuadFence - really transforms the machine, as the extra weight of the battery is now over the workpiece for face mortices, and slung underneath the tool  for edge mortices.

Probably not what the Festool engineers intended, given the time and money they must have put into the redesign, especially around the beefed up fence, but it is what it is. Or perhaps it’s just close to 20 years of DomiPlate muscle-memory working in its favour; either way, it seems to be a good machine that handles well when paired with some third-party accessories.

We’ll know more as I use it more of course, but for t=now these are my first impressions.

Thanks everyone!

Peter

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