Festool DOMINO User Manual

There are numerous draft designs, CAD
drawings, parts lists and documentation
for our DOMINO connecting system. Yet the
conversation and initial drawings where
the idea was formed was on something a lot
less imaginative: a napkin.
But first things first. To be precise, it was
initially only an informal exchange between
two practitioners in our canteen, pondering
what the optimal domino should be capable of.
And because nothing else was readily avail-
able, they sketched a domino on a napkin to
represent the demand for ‘more stability’.
Then a second sketch next to it for a ‘larger
glue surface’. And finally a third for absolute
‘rotation resistance’ at the first attempt. Using
the simple equation: make one from three,
the foundation was laid for the DOMINO
DF 500 domino system.
What was missing was the fitting hole –
and thus the real challenge began. That is
to say, the development of a completely
new tool. With the typical southern German
inventiveness, infinite passion and the
concentrated expertise of our engineers,
a mix of traditional vertical bore and
simultaneous horizontal routing movement
was created – the birth of the DOMINO
pendulum router principle as the driving
force for the new DOMINO DF 500.
From its origins on a simple napkin, to
a design that has not only revolutionised
the traditional timber joint, but has been
continuously developed since then with
further options: the DOMINO XL DF 700
and the newly developed corner and flat
connectors, forming a complete DOMINO
connecting system. For what has always
been extremely stable, is now also flexible,
with separable rack, board and frame joints.
Two men. One conversation. And the origin of a brilliant idea:
the DOMINO connecting system.
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Festool DOMINO Specifications

General

Brand	Festool
Model	DOMINO
Category	Power Tool
Language	English