Ok, you guys wanted back-to-back classes in the same week. Here's your opportunity to attend a cabinet construction and advanced router class in the same week.

We would like to extend another invitation to end users to attend a new training event.  Below, you will find details about that event.  Please let us know if you have any questions.


Course Description:
We are calling for entries for a 2-day class focused on the onsite construction and installation of cabinets utilizing the Festool System.    The class will take place at our training facility in Henderson, NV, and will be primarily geared towards professional applications.

In this class, we will cover the tools and techniques necessary to build and install shop-quality cabinetry onsite.  Though participants will walk away with a range of broadly applicable skills, the class will concentrate primarily on the construction of a 32mm frameless upper cabinet and a traditional face-frame base cabinet.   From raw material to finished boxes ready for finish, you will learn how to work faster, easier, and smarter with the Festool System.

Since most of the two days will be spent in the shop, actually using the tools, we request that registrants have some previous knowledge of the Festool System, and/or the basics of trim carpentry or cabinet construction.  

Though we hope to add classes geared toward novices in the future, this should be considered an intermediate to expert-level class.


What will I learn?

Onsite Cabinet Construction

-   Accurate and safe processing of a 4 x 8 sheet goods with the TS Plunge-cut saw
-   Precision ripping with FS parallel guides
-   Squaring and final dimensioning of cabinet parts on the Multifunction table
-   Dimensioning parts with Kapex miter saw
-   Building a face frame with the Domino joiner
-   Joining frames and cases with the Domino joiner
-   LR 32 Hole drilling set
-   Hinge plate boring
-   Shelf pin boring
-   Trimming edge banding with MFK700 router
-   Quick and efficient assembly with T-drills

Installation Basics

-   Toe kick construction with Domino
-   Filler strip attachment with Domino
-   Scribing with Rotex, TS 55, Or PS jigsaws


How do I sign up?
If you are interested in participating, please click here to complete this online survey. Participants are selected on a first-come basis.  


Travel and Accommodations:
Participants are responsible for all travel and accommodations.  We will be glad to help you make hotel reservations at our preferred local establishment (Sunset Station).  And for those participants staying at the Sunset Station, Festool will arrive for pick-up on both days at 7:30am.  

Festool will provide basic refreshments (bagels and coffee) in the morning, and lunch will be provided both days.


When & Where?
Class date:    November 8-9, 2010
Class times:   8am-5pm
Class location:   Festool Training Facility, 125 N. Gibson Rd., Henderson, NV
Class size:   8
Fee:   $100
  
* Please note: Attendees are responsible for all expenses related to travel and accommodations.
 


Festool training personnel in attendance:
-   Steve Bace, Tool and Application Trainer

There may also be additional members of the Festool USA team present periodically throughout the training event.

Thank you.

Thanks for the heads-up Shane. Last Friday I saw the announcement and immediately signed up for both classes.

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of other Festool users.

So frustrating! I would love to go, but I'm on the wrong continent...

Only 2 spots remain in this class.

I'am in, I will be at the Cabinet class.

Maybe it was too short of notice?

My problem was I just could not take the whole week off. I decided to take the router class first. I will try and take the next cabinet class if my schedule alows

Looking forward to meeting everyone on the 8th. Hope the class fills up.

Sorry I do not follow, why "Steve will have no trouble seeing you waiting near the reservation desk in the lobby!"  Is it because i'm 6'4"? Must have gone over my head

That photo is from 2002, we were in Santa Fe New Mexico, on our way home for Bowling Green Ky. So I might look a little different now? 

This class is now full.

Upscale, sorry I missed your question. We may start broadcasting shorter training sessions via the internet in the near future. That would open it up to a larger number of people but would be limited since it wouldn't be hands-on. I would envision shorter sessions that are maybe 15-20 minutes long with a short Q&A session afterward.

Currently, I don't know of any plans to produce a DVD. That's not to say that it may not be a future offering.

There is a good likelihood that any broadcasts would be archived for later review.

Excited about the class.

Looking forward to meeting every one on Monday. 

Brice, I will have cameras at both the Las Vegas classes next week. I assume all of us will have cameras.

Like the others I am looking forward to making a bunch of new best friends at these classes. I am checking into the Sunset Station on Sunday afternoon. I will be wearing a Festool shirt and have at least one classic Systainer with me when Steve comes to pick us up Monday morning. Minnie wrote he will meet us near the registration area. I figure if nothing else I can use a Systainer as a stool in case there are no chairs handy in that part of the hotel!

Shane, my experience has been that all casino security folks take a dim view of outsiders with tools anywhere near their slot machines. My cunning plan is to sit on the Systainer so security will not ask for a look inside!

Awesome -- thanks for posting.  I cannot wait until the router class later this week so I can see it all first hand! 

Scot