I've developed a bit of a tremor in both hands as I age...it's not terrible, but it makes precision work very frustrating. When I was younger, I enjoyed cutting M&T joints, dovetails and so forth by hand - now, I just get frustrated and destroy a lot of wood.
Little by little, I've switched over to power tools for this sort of thing. With a jig, a router table and so on, I can do most of the simple joinery I want to do. I've tried biscuits and a cheap dual-spindle doweling joiner, but I haven't been happy with either one - not sure if it's the tool or me, but even with a lot of time adjusting the tools, I rarely get strong "spot-on" joints this way.
That has me looking for a better mechanical solution, and a few folks suggested the Festool Domino. Everything I read about it seems positive, except the price seems crazy to me - the small 500 is about $1200, and the larger 700 model is close to $1700 last I looked. I've also considered a better dual-spindle joiner - something like the Mafel, but it's also crazy expensive.
I like the look of fancy through tenons, so I've also looked at a few power mortisers, but it's another big and expensive thing to add to my small shop that's hard to justify.
Recently, I had the idea that a completely different alternative would be to invest in a CNC for the joinery I want to do. It's probably more expensive than the mortiser or a Domino, but seems to me that it would open the door to virtually any type of fancy joinery I might want to do, at the cost of being more time consuming to set up and run. Still, seems to me that no matter how bad my tremors get, so long as I can still use a computer, I can pretty much cut anything I can imagine with an accuracy down to about .001".
What do you guys think?