Lee Michaels wrote:

Any idea what this thing costs?

Given the price of their other hand held power
tools, I'm betting it will be on the other side
of $400 US and can only use their special
bits - and perhaps their dowels, biscuits and
"loose tenons" - following the US shaving
"systems" business model.

There are many advantages to using "loose'
tenon joinery, and many ways of making
the mortises in both parts, this has the
apparent simplicity of a biscuit joiner
but the strength advantage of longer,
beefier loose tenons.

Like Veritas, but on a grander scale, when
Festool looks at a common hand held power
woodworking tool, they throw most of the
book away and start with a nearly blank
piece of paper. What comes out the other
end looks familiar but off, works a little
differently, like the Dewalt 621, takes a
little getting used to - and then does the
job better and easier than any of its
predecessors - at a considerably higher
price of course.

This one looks like another Festool winner,
for those with deeper pockets than mine.
Would be interesting to play with though.

Watch out Lamello, there's a new kid on
the high end of the block - and he may
be coming to steel you're candy.

Thanks for making the group aware of
another potentially great tool.

charlie b

BTW - used the bullet catch strike plates
yet?