Am I still a Festool Rookie???

[Pdevore]

SoI was looking around the FOG tonight and my beautiful wife looked over my shoulder and started to giggle. I asked what was so funny, she replies "you have yourself listed as a Festool Rookie in your signature".

So this leads me to wonder at what point am I no longer to consider myself a "Rookie"?
I own the following and use on a simi-regular bases.
In the order of purchasing over the last 10 months

CT MIDI
TS55
Extra 55" rail with connectors
2 standard clamps
2 Long clamps
4 quick clamps
ETS 125
5" Abrasives systainer FIlled to the max
Trion
Rotex 125
Rotex 90
3.5" Abrasives systainer FILLED to the max
2 sortstainers
First Aid Systainer
Tradesman cleanup kit
MFT/3 complete
2 sets of clamping elements
Boom Arm
CT26

Items to come in the next 3 months
CXS
1400
Carvex
suggestions????

I am also moving in the next 2 weeks and will need to build cabinets for the new shop... What else could I 'NEED'??  [scared] [big grin]

Thanks guys

Pete

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Pete,

You don't have a toolie.  [tongue]

 

[Pdevore]

Pete,

You don't have a toolie.   [tongue]

It's on the list now!!! do you have an extra to sell? Or maybe I go pay 3x the price on crackbay I mean Ebay...

Pete

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Sorry Pete.  Not getting rid of mine just yet.  [cool]

 

[mouppe]

Begins with a d...ends with o...

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Denaro?  He'll need that to buy the Domino.

 

[justinmcf]

hi pete.

its a 4 year apprenticeship.
so technically you are still a rookie!

you need to spend the same amount that you have spent in the last 10 months, every year.
then we will be happy to teach you the secret handshake.

regards, justin.

 

[speed]

Pete,

You don't have a toolie.   [tongue]

looks like im no rookie then [big grin] VVVVVVV

 

[AlexThePalex]

If you have to wonder, you still are one. When you're out of that phase, you just "know".........

 

[andy5405]

If you have to wonder, you still are one. When you're out of that phase, you just "know".........

I will always be a rookie in everything I do and the minute I think any different my quality will suffer and the desire to improve will vanish. 

 

[AlexThePalex]

If you have to wonder, you still are one. When you're out of that phase, you just "know".........

I will always be a rookie in everything I do and the minute I think any different my quality will suffer and the desire to improve will vanish.  

If that's the philosophy that works for you, go for it.

 

[peter halle]

We are all rookies when we get a new tool and use it.  [big grin] [big grin]

Peter

 

[jmbfestool]

I think this thread was more a stealth gloat than about if your still a festool rookie!  [poke] [poke] [poke]

JMB

 

[NuggyBuggy]

OP, I like how you say you are going to get a Carvex in 3 months. [laughing]  You might not be a rookie, but you are optimistic.

 

[Wood_Junkie]

OP, I like how you say you are going to get a Carvex in 3 months. [laughing]  You might not be a rookie, but you are optimistic.

Definite sure sign of a rookie:  That charming hopefulness about NAINA items.    [wink]

Or in the case of the Carvex:  MAINA  (Momentarily Available in North America)

 

[James Watriss]

I dunno. I'm not sure you're really a rookie. But the bits and pieces that really have me feeling ready for the brown belt exam are all of the router accessories for the 1010 and 1400. Flush trimming setup, edge guide fence, guide rail stop blocks, LR-32, which is good for SO much more than just drilling holes. MFS, to a point.

I dunno where the line is, but at some point the accessories begin to compound the ability to improvise in new ways. It's not just about the shopping list.

All that trash talking aside, I still don't have an MFT, which probably inhibits my own growth to a point...

 

[sancho57]

SoI was looking around the FOG tonight and my beautiful wife looked over my shoulder and started to giggle. I asked what was so funny, she replies "you have yourself listed as a Festool Rookie in your signature".

So this leads me to wonder at what point am I no longer to consider myself a "Rookie"?
I own the following and use on a simi-regular bases.
In the order of purchasing over the last 10 months

CT MIDI
TS55
Extra 55" rail with connectors
2 standard clamps
2 Long clamps
4 quick clamps
ETS 125
5" Abrasives systainer FIlled to the max
Trion
Rotex 125
Rotex 90
3.5" Abrasives systainer FILLED to the max
2 sortstainers
First Aid Systainer
Tradesman cleanup kit
MFT/3 complete
2 sets of clamping elements
Boom Arm
CT26

Items to come in the next 3 months
CXS
1400
Carvex
suggestions????

I am also moving in the next 2 weeks and will need to build cabinets for the new shop... What else could I 'NEED'??  [scared] [big grin]

Thanks guys

Pete

What else could you need?

Maybe a 2nd job to help for all those tools

 

[Frans]

SoI was looking around the FOG tonight and my beautiful wife looked over my shoulder and started to giggle. I asked what was so funny, she replies "you have yourself listed as a Festool Rookie in your signature".

2 sortstainers

You're still a rookie if those stains aren't green  ;D