On 4/16/2012 6:04 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Leon wrote:


Think about what you said and what I am about to say... All kidding
aside. If your customers are glad it is over, is that leaving a
favorable impression in their minds when they have more work to be
done? Most of my work is repeat customers and second to that is
referral business from those customers. I do not have a web site,,,
yet, and my only advertising is my business card. No business phone
either. Swingman and I did a kitchen renovation that began about 18
months ago. We used Festool equipment extensively for cavinets,
doors, and drawers. We thought we would never get out of there. IIRC the
work
tripled what we were expecting to do. An no, it probably was not all
because we were using Festool equipment but a good portion absolutely
was because we were using Festool equipment and it certainly made
life easier for us.



That's the part of the whole thing I cannot buy into Leon. To me - you and
Swing earned what you got in terms of additional work, because of the work
you perform - not because of your tools. Doubtful the customer really based
their decisions on the tools you used.



There is that and Swingman and I are damn good. ;~) but I built an
additional 32 drawers to replace "new" drawers that the trim carpenter
had build but not yet installed. The customer saw 3 special sized
drawers for the kitchen with exposed tenons to reinforce the joints that
I had built. The other 32 drawers were for the bath rooms which I was
not participating in until she saw those three drawers. So yes the tool
in this case was responsible for the extra work.

Initially on the kitchen we precut all cabinet doors and drawer fronts
in our shops. Because this was a remodel and we were dealing with
square new cabinets fitting into an older home and cabinet door gap
tolerances measured in 32nds" we had to custom recut several doors and
drawer fronts so that the gaps looked uniform. We made these custom
unsquare cuts with a Festool track saw, cutting MDF.

Do you think any ole circular saw would have been up to the task with no
tear out on the edges top or bottom, in MDF?