The Festool Domino biscuit joiner has a rep as the best, most well thought-out biscuit joiner on the market. It even uses its own proprietary "domino" tenons rather than traditional biscuits. But the Domino isn't without its glitches. To wit: the 5mm cutter cuts mortises that are often too small for the 5mm "dominoes". In a year of using the Domino, and over the course of three packages of 5mm dominoes, I am still convinced that the 5mm tenon is the worst-fitting of all the sizes available, and also convinced that more than 30% of the 5mm dominoes in any given bag are too large for the mortise and have to be sanded back or baked in a microwave in order to fit. I have stopped trying to use the 5mm tenon in my projects. But I have found a use for the 5mm cutter: making slots for mounting cabinet tops to their cases, and table tops to their aprons. The slots are a great size for z-clips (see photo).
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