I've noticed that forum activity here seems to go up and down with the seasons. It seems that fall and winter brings more activity here than spring and summer.

But, I certainly note more new names lately. I also note a few familiar names missing, or not as active anymore.

My favorite board here on the FOG is Festool Jigs and Tool Enhancements. I do hope to see more activity in that area soon.

Rey

I second that, alot of original thought and great ideas floating around.  I particularly like the customization of systainers, I think a rewardless competition of "what can you systainer" is in order. 

Warmed up a bit, hovering around 10 degrees centegrade, was going below freezing a few nights.  Seeing as I'm doing a serious renovation and have my furnace disconnected its quickly getting very cold and my ears are getting soar from all the complaining about the ambient temperature being a little lower then usual.

I've put the rack system on hold since I'm too tied up with work at the moment to play around with my van's layout.  The cubie has been practically a stationary 16 foot warehouse for the past few weeks as all my work has been downtown or more programming related (no big prewires or retros) and I've been working out of my tiny Honda Element.  I'm going to wait for some downtime to play with the racking.

The current shortlist is making custome inserts for my sys3 and sys4 to organize wires exit plates and interconnect cables.  I'm thinking of taking the plunge and ordering a couple tanos sys1 sized sortainers and the big 5 drawer sortainer.  I'm still trying to figure out which systainers will take purchasing priority, whether to get a few caster bases or a vacume bla bla bla...not nearly enough hours in the day or dollars in the bank to do all the wacky ideas I dream up.

Ive only just found the forum,

The threads & knowledge base are superb 

For those of you interested in limited statistics of the FOG, if you go to the home page and then scroll down almost to the end, you will see something that looks like this: 




You can click on either of the two places indicated by the green arrows and you will come to a page showing general stats.

If you look at the page views notice the growth.  By the way - Matthew wrote long ago that the code had been modified to just show real views - excluded other stuff.  Notice the number of new posts, etc.

To all our friends all over the world - POST WHENEVER YOU WANT!  Seasons don't matter on the internet!

Peter

Bruce

I totally agree, this is a "comfortable" place.

I have looked at other forums but they can get very heated & i am not into that.  Everybody here seems to be really pleasant & that  makes the FOG quite unique.  There was one guy here some time ago, cant remember his name but he would get aggro at the slightest things.  He must have got booted of as all is calm 

Woodguy

Fairly new to the FOG and I would have to agree, this place is great.  A ton of advice when asked, and even when you don't ask you get it (and it's not bad advice either on both accounts.)

Love the Jigs and enhancments as well.  Hopefully will get to add something in due time...thinking of how to support a guide rail on a tall bookcase faceframe (only 1 1/2 wide) to make it easier to scribe to a wall.

Anyway, gotta love the FOG.

This is a nice place, and not too crowded.  With that said, they should probably include a card of sorts with the FOG address inside new tools that people buy.  There's gotta be some Festool owners out there that are not even aware of this site.

Hats off to the admins and mods here while I'm at it.

FOG's a great board.  I have participated in many over the years and all eventually hit some rough ground.  I'm very pleased that FOG has 'got over it' and moved forward.  I think its great that new members are posting more questions.  When I first started with Festool I had a million of them and got some great answers.  I've figured out the basics now, but still every now and then there's a "wow - how cool!" moment.

Thanks Mods for keeping it civil and thanks to Festool for your support, especially Shane.

If you are asking about the inventions board - it is no longer there.  It was not being used.  The posts by Steve were removed by Steve.  As far as I know, Steve is no longer manufacturing those items and according to a very reliable source is looking towards other future endeavors.

I hope that this helps.

Peter