Boo boo, hiss hiss we never get any fun grand openings here. We have a
Woodworker's Supply but the specials they put on usually look like the tool
thieves from the flea market are the one presenters, much less someone
giving away shirts.

--
Mike
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
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IYAAYAS
"Leon" wrote in message
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The new Woodcraft store had its grand opening yesterday and today, they
have been open about 2 months. Have you ever seen 80 cars and trucks
parked in front of a Woodcraft store before? I talked to the owner of all
the Texas Woodcraft stores and he indicated that with 2 cash registers the
line went to the back of the store on Friday. Apparently one customer
camped out Thursday night to save $75 on a Jet mini lathe.
Delta had their large trailer on the lot showing their tools with few
people looking, walking into the store however it was packed with at least
100 customers and probably 20 reps and employees. Oh yeah, that Scott guy
from American Workshop was there but no one seemed to be interested.
I finally found a hose reducer to adapt my Kreg pocket hole jig to my
Festool vacuum for $4, less a 10% discount.
I got to see that bench top planer looking machine that carves wood
surfaces with a router type bit. Very Noisy! It was located at the end
of a hall in the back of the store but you could here it clearly every
where in the store. It sure was nice then they turned it off.
Delta's new Omni jig comes in a box no shorter than 48" long. It must be
very well packed in the box.
Kreg was there showing all its new stuff. Fein was there showing its new
Fein Multimaster. Steel City was there showing everything and the Steel
City stuff looks very well built with attention paid to details. Jet was
there but not showing any thing new, I was surprised that they did not
have the new planer/jointer combo machine on hand.


And then glowing brightly in the front corner of the store was the FESTOOL
rep and display.... AAAhhhh!
He was demonstrating the circle saw, Domino, cordless drills, the Rotex
sander, the smaller less expensive ROS sander, vacuum cleaner, router,
etc. He showed the single hand held ROS and I was impressed. He turned
the sander on, sat it down on some wood, and put his index finger on top
to guide it and to hold it in one spot.
I gave the Rotex a spin and it indeed is a fantastic sander. I sanded
about 1 square foot of "splintery rough cut" cherry down to almost "ready
for a finish" smooth in about 20 seconds using 120 grit sand paper. The
aggressive setting has to be seen to be appreciated. Dust was only
detectable on the edge of the board and there was so little that a wet
finger would have removed it all. Sooooo I bought one, the 125, and the
rep threw in 2 Festool Polo shirts and 2 Festool caps.

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