I am just curious. How many of you guys who enjoy using hand tools own a Festool Domino? I did a bunch of picture frames recently that would have been a lot quicker with loose tenons in the ends. It kind of gave me an itch for a Festool Domino. I have always balked at the price tag and the fact that they are based on proprietary cutters and consumables, but I am getting increasingly tempted.
To be clear, I am not a hand tool guy. I like hand tools. I like visible joints to be cut with hand tools and my finish surfaces are generally planed and scraped (not sanded), but my stock prep is all done with machines. I cut tenons with a dado stack or a band saw and I cut mortises with a hollow chisel mortiser unless I am working on a big piece that I cannot maneuver over m mortiser. My goal is always to work more with hand tools, but my shop time is limited to a couple of hours a week and sometimes I just want to get something done. That's where the domino might come in.
But for the price of one of them I could get a nice antique Norris smoothing plane or a set of Blue Spruce chisels...