Brice Burrell said:
JBird said:
elfick said:
It kind of begs the question: why does Festool even offer the standard rail?
Apologies in advance for anyone that thinks I am being too blunt. This is one of the varied and subtle ways that Festool abuses their customers. It is really inexcusable that there are any rails sold which do not have the holes. The only purpose is to extract more monies from customers. In addition to being exploitive it is also an environmentally wasteful practice. There I said it!......
I see it much differently. Simply put it costs more to produce rails with holes and there are far too few customers that buy the Festool LR32 set to justify the expense of milling holes in all rails. Just a guess, but Festool could sell 50 TS saws for every one LR32 set. Also, I'd speculate that very few people that put out the dealer to swop rails ever actually gets around to buying the LR32.
While it's true that fewer people use the drilling system, more would use it if they didn't have to buy the same rail all over again to get the holes.
I agree with the op.
Festool rails are ridiculously over priced so the minor expense of drilling the holes in all sizes of rails sold shouldn't hurt them.
They would then find customers more willing to buy other high profit margin devices like the drilling guide.
Once they have the drilling guide, they will be more likely to buy a 1010 router even though they have a 1400 router.
I don't mind being "green Kool aided" in that manner because of the value I get.
But I am aggravated about the lack of holes in the rails. If all the rails had holes, I would have much more flexibility.
We are a festidious bunch and we are willing to pay more for festools because they allow us to satisfy our quest. But being festidious, we also expect more for our money even if we will spend lavishly for products others wouldn't consider.
Finding out about the lr32 after purchasing overpriced rails, and having to repurchase even more over priced rails and having reduced choices in holed rail lengths, really does make me agravated and considering other methods.
Track saws are the first purchase of many festool purchasers. It's expensive but we justify it because track saws are so very useful.
Then we find we like the dust collection too. And then we start wondering if expensive routers and sanders are worth it and they fit a system so we can justify them too.
If the rails sold with the track saw (at least those rails) came with holes, we would ask, "I wonder what the holes are for?"
Being accurate types, we would find the answer and be happy and say, "ahh, more part of the system, I will buy it and be complete and happy and productive."
Instead, I look at my I unholed rails and I feel hoodwinked.
Others feel the same way or there wouldn't be so many threads asking how to add holes to rails.
Shame on festool in this hole rail matter.
Free the holes.
