hello guys ryan here from the london craftsman and thanks for watching
and today is a special one for you and for me
well mainly for me because what i've got in front of me here is my first ever festool machine
and i'm actually a festival virgin at the moment
never really tried one before i've tried the track saw years and years ago um but that is all
um and the only reason i'm actually buying this is because i'm making a baby gate you can see here
a couple of drawings and i just thought instead of getting the mortiser out and just doing
some other techniques of getting those spindles housed into the gate um i just thought just invest
this machine will probably just pay for itself on this baby gate
so i took the plunge and bought the smaller version of the domino machine
is it the df500 to be honest i literally had this job i started cutting it up
and i thought how am i going to get these spindles housed in easily not take years doing it
and i knew the domino machine was the way to go so i literally just went on google i typed in domino
machine looked for this the cheapest price to be fair bought it and it's here now and i've not done
any other research apart from that apart from the price for the dominoes i've got some dominoes too
so today is just an unboxing really um i never really do unboxing videos but i thought let's
share this let's do it together anyone who might not have had a festool before as well same as me
so i bought this one from where did i buy this screw fix because it was the cheapest price free
delivery 720 quid i believe one thing i am a bit disappointed in is it doesn't come with
any dominoes apparently which i just think is ridiculous not even a couple come on festool what
are you playing at you pay 700 pound for a tour and you can't even friend a couple of dominoes
anyway early in the morning i'm a bit grumpy so i'm just going to crack on and get the tab where
it says tear here do you want me to do it slowly no that's too slow all right let's just go for it
so i don't know how easy this thing is to use
i haven't really done much research into these
oh look i've got a sustainer is this the stainer one of those stupid boxes that festival do
that everyone you see everyone with about 100 stacked on top of their hoover
yeah there we go that's what you get
doesn't it look lovely i was right look df 500 q plus 240 volt not going for the stupid 110 version
all right let's see
little fence
hope they give you warranty with this machine warranty all-inclusive i wonder what that is
anyone know how long warranty lasts for anywhere sure we'll find out
instructions let's get down to business and take this machine out oh that's
quite cool how the power cable isn't actually connected you could disconnect it that's nice
wow that's that's what cost 700
but apparently people have been saying or you know in the forums they say okay well
it's expensive because you're just buying build quality i think that's what a lot of people say
isn't it it's just the build quality of what you're going what you're buying from festool
is going to last your lifetime most likely um so so far it looks pretty good solid
i'm not even gonna go and try and use it at the moment because i haven't got a clue i'm gonna
do a little bit of research on that before i get them out but yeah there is no domino in here which
i just no dominoes we just just think it's just crazy just give me a trial pack what's in here you
know you're gonna give me anything in there huh horrible plastic little case thing for it there
so that that is what you get for 720 quid and a power cable
what is what i was actually thinking as you can see on my drawing
um i've got some par plain all round timber around here look there we go where we are around here
and i'm just making the frame out of three by two
par timber planed all the way around so you can see that i've already mitered the four pieces
there's a spare piece in there and what i'm trying to do is house the spindles in
there without mortising i've got mortiser but it's getting the mortar out it's not set up
um you know or making a channel or something like that to house these spindles in so
got these spindles as well so i just thought the domino was absolutely perfect just to
plunk that right there with a domino and some glue clamp up the whole gate as it is job done sand up
spray it finish so so like i said this job in theory should pay for the machine near enough
so i'm happy with that and just means i've got a tool that i can use for other bits and pieces
it's a bit like the pocket hole jig that i didn't have for years and years and i bought one six
months ago and we just constantly use it and we just don't know how we lived without it before
i'm guessing that is what the domino machine is going to do for us just get us out of trouble here
and there if i'm making more and more things out of timber you know as you know i'm sort of like a
wardrobe factory if you like in here anything flat pack don't generally use those kind of machines or
we don't use those techniques we've basically got table saw
hand tools power tools and that is what we need to get us by but as we're taking more and more
software material jobs on i think it's going to be handy to do bits and pieces and i like the
fact that you can do it on a 45 degree as well so those miter cuts that frame so this frame here is
mitered in the corners we can just turn that to a 45 and put a couple of dominoes in there
and what i've done is i've bought online um should come today from ffx um i believe amazon
do exactly the same price um hopefully i'll be able to leave a link um i've got some dominoes
some five by 30s so five mil thick by 30 mil long dominoes and some eight by 50s both
17 or 18 quid a box the bigger ones you only get 100 the smaller ones you get 300.
so i thought i'm gonna buy those but what i am going to do is once i see them i am going to just
make my own up out of some i've got some oak lying around and some ash so i am going to make my own
and don't put any more money in dominar in in festool's pocket for the dominoes which
is just ridiculous price um so you know maybe that might be a video to come where i'm making
some dominoes but what can i say i can't really say much more than other than it looks quite nice
and i'm looking forward to using it see how it all works and see
see if it actually helps me out as much as i think it is going to a little stoppers here so
i think i'm going to leave it like that guys if you've got any information you can give me
any tips um that'll be helpful because like i said i am a festool virgin um and especially
with the domino looks a little bit complicated but yeah believe it or not so that's my unboxing
um and i will see in the next one guys take it easy bye for now