On Jan 26, 6:10*pm, "Leon" wrote:
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Oh yeah, that Scott guy from
American Workshop was there but no one seemed to be interested.

That gave me a chuckle, its an absolute sin that that guy has a
national show in the first place. I remember when he first started
about 10 years ago and thought it was bad. I recently forced myself to
watch a couple of the recent episodes and I cant figure how but they
have actually gotten worse, way worse. He is really bad. What really
ticked me off was the episodes a long while back when he was clearly
using the show as a way to bankroll his own house and surely got
thousands and thousands of dollars in sponsor donations and or
discounts. Several of the home/wwking shows have been doing that in
past years, Hometime is another.

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And then glowing brightly in the front corner of the store was the
FESTOOL rep and display.... *AAAhhhh!

With regards to the other coments about Festools quality and sales I
too find it interesting. Our nearest woodcraft (over 2 hours away)
doesnt seem to move quite as much as I have heard others do. We are in
a bit of a rural area so perhaps thats a part of it. Though we havent
put any Festool in the shop yet several items are on the list for our
next batch of major purchases.

I did some side work for a company a long time ago that was a
distributor for Metabo tools. Real high quality, german made, you just
about couldnt kill them but they cost more. Back then Metabo's reps
and engineers were outspoken in stating that they would never focus
heavily on the US market due to the fact that it was a disposable
society. Coming from germany Metabo's customers were of the lot that
handed down their tools from generation to generation. They had a
circlar saw like the old PC that had a grease resivoir to grease the
main bearings. They said every saw that came in for service in the US,
though the option was readily accessible, had never been greased. They
use to always reference how tradesman in the US would buy cheap saws
and throw them out when they needed an $8 replacement cord. Thats not
me, I have completely rebuilt a couple of our Milwaukee saws several
times. Brushes, bearings, and so on. A good tool should last a
lifetime but will still require maintenance.

While I am a super fan of high quality tools Festool has them priced
right out at the edge where we really have to ponder which will make
the best additions to the shop.

and then my wife and i headed straight to the quilt store.. '~(

Whats worse is that my wife works almost full time with me and she is
just as much of a tool hound as I am. When we walk into a place like
that it usually turns out to be a really bad day. Last time we went
she almost walked out with the RO150, and the CT33, and I was an inch
away from the TS75. Thankfully we talked ourselves down from the ledge
but it will happen one of these days.

I havent quite seen the rage with regard to the Domino, while it does
seem like a fantastic system, it just hasnt really caught my
attention.

Mark