On 2/2/2012 8:40 AM, John Grossbohlin wrote:

"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in message
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On 2/1/2012 5:46 PM, David Paste wrote:

If you are a hobbyist, the price will look high unless you appreciate
quality and a tool that will last.

If you are a pro and or make a living with your tools you will find
that the price is reasonable.

Festool is one of a few manufacturers that has enough pride in what it
does to actually design and manufacture the product themselves.
Naturally they know what they are doing, know how to build a tool, and
that is going to cost more money than buying a "clone tool" made in
China.

Where time is money, Festool delivers top quality results in less time.

Imagine cutting 200 "clean precision sized" mortises. Now imagine
doing them in less than an hour.

Imagine sanding with a belt sander. Now imagine sanding with a finish
sander that will sand as fast as a belt sander with no dust and little
noise by comparison.

Imagine building fine furniture and making your cuts with a circular
saw. Now imagine a circular saw the cuts as good as a cabinet table
saw, makes plunge cuts, puts a fine straight edge on a board faster
than a jointer, and contains 95% of the saw dust.

Imagine a shop vac. Now imagine a dust extractor that has a hepa
filter, so quiet that you cannot hear it running when working with a
connected power tool, and allows you to stack all of your power tools
in top.

Imagine a cordless drill. Now imagine one that does not rattle and
clatter when you have reached the desired torque setting but simply
stops turning and sounds a tone to indicate that you have reached the
desired torque setting and will not continue until you release and
pull the trigger again, one that has a right angle, eccentric, quick
change chuck for drivers, and will continue to run if you drop it in a
bucket of water.

I witness this every time I use these tools.

Leon,

Sounds like you could be supplementing your income by being a copy
writer for Festool. ;~)

One of my local associates, whom has a commercial shop, has a shelf unit
full of Festool in his shop. I recently saw him sell off some Dewalt
tools... Seems he found the same things you did...

John

LOL I should send that in to Festool!

On a serious note though I was never really aware of Festool, not on the
radar.

Then one day many years ago, 6 or 7, Robatoy showed me a link to the
German Festool site, all in German, that showed a video of a tool for
creating mortises. And at that time he was going on and on and on about
this Rotex, feminine product sounding name, sander.

When the Domino was introduced here, in English but not yet available, I
decided I was going to buy one. Ah but you need to use a vac with it
and my days of listening to the inexpensive shop vac's were over so I
bought the Festool CT22 dust extractor and the Domino assortment. I
dropped major money on those three items.

Damn, the vac worked much better than expected and it was quiet. These
tools are great and fast!


A year later came the Rotex sander, several months later small finish
sander. No more dust!

Christmas two years ago Swingman got the bug and was "bad sick" with
Festool need. He bought the CT22 dust extractor, T75 Track saw,
accessory kit, other tracks, Rotex sander and finish sander.

I tried his track saw and WOW. Four months later I added the Festool
TS75 track saw and an extra track.

Last Christmas I added the T15-3 Festool Drill.