Any comments on Festool products. I have the saw, with guide, router, with hole jig set up, vac and jigsaw. This stuff is really great, the cut is so fine, the shelf pin holes look factory done, routed dadoes straight and true. They allow shop like quakity in the field. i’m just curious how may of us are hep to this stuff. I saw their add with the saw and guide in FHB for years and it never dawned on me that I could have a use for this combo. Only drawback I’ve come across is that the saw and vac draw a lot of amps and can’t be used together in some houses. I’m curious if anyone has any other tools other than the ones I listed and if so, How do ya like ’em?
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quicksilver
I have the tools you have and also
power planer
I love it and if you don't want to hook it up to the vac the dust/chip bag that comes with it works quite well
CDD drills
the 12v. ones, witih the right angle chuck adapters. These feel very good in your hand and the batteries last a long time, well worth the cost IMHO.
Liniar sander,
I don't use this as much as i thought i would but it is a well made product that would be handy for someone who has the need, I will keep it and use it whenever the oppertunity arrises.
Jigsaw
all i can say is GET ONE, you will love it.
I am looking at getting the RO sanders as i think I will use those more than the liniar sander, also I am eyeing one of their bigger routers, all and all they make good stuff and the 3 year waranty is nothing to scoff at, they had a replacement jig saw on my doorstep two days after mine stoped working, no questions asked, return shipping lable enclosed ( for the broken one)
james
My friend bought the mid size router. He says he loves it but I haven't seen it yet. We call him router Jim. Hey Jim is that you? I have the 1/4 '' only collet. but it has never let me down. It took a while to really notice a difference between the Festool jigsaw and the bosch barrel grips that I'm used to but one day I was cutting some rather tight radiuses with some excelent results and I thought wow this thing really is better. I'd like that drill I was really, really tempted last fall when they were sending me special offer cards. Fact is these tools cost a lot. But man they are nice.
Quicksilver,
No i am not " router JIM" although some of my guys may call me that behind my back, I have several 619's set up for specific tasks ( like dovetailing) and there is hell to pay if someone changes one. Do you have the new or old jigsaw, I have the old one and it still is better than my bosch barell grip.
james
The new. Bought it about a year and half ago ago. Our job got broken into last year and they took evrything but those funny white stackable boxes. Why? I don't know but thank God. The home owner was so cool he paid seventy five percent of our losses about 4000$.
I've had the Trion jigsaw a more than a year and the mid-size router for a couple months both are awesome. I really need a vac, probably end of the month.
Check out Festool.de for some cool stuff they don't sell over here.
Jim (not router Jim, though)
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Same tools as yours, but haven't bought the jigsaw, yet. Overall, I'm very pleased. As you said, it allows shop quality in the field, & all the operations are dead-on. Our customers like the fact there is very little mess when the tools are used with the vac. Definitely worth the price when you consider the accuracy, precision, ease of use, portability & dust collection.
Which jigsaw do you have? Is the newer trion model? Is it as accurate as the reps claim in terms of no blade drift?
Yes its the trion.
I have 2 rotexes and the delta sander and a vac. I dream regularly about the router and the plunge saw, but i've got multiples of both that need to die first. I'm with you. Pricey, but oh so worth it in the long haul. Very very pro grade stuff.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
I have the ATF, the new 1400 and the drill. TDK?
Awesome tools and EZ to use. I think the new router (1400) is the nicest router that I have use so far.
The price? What price? Tha tools are so good that the price is EZ to forget.
YCF Dino