CANCELLED - Festool Carvex Jigsaw 2011 Version

[mouppe]

If and when the Carvex does make it here, it will be interesting to see what changes have occurred from the current model and then to revisit this thread.

I suggest a Festool t-shirt be given to the most accurate speculator!

 

[Guy Ashley]

My money is on Kens Ipod docking port!! [tongue]

 

[semenza]

My money is on Kens Ipod docking port!! [tongue]

You mean PODEX  [smile]

Seth

 

[Bob Menefee]

Can someone help me here, what is the purpose of the strobe? I saw it in the videos and was confused by the whole thing (don't worry, not a seizure, I confuse easily!). I simply do not understand what it provides....

The idea is to make it easier to follow the cut line.  Normally the jigsaw blades looks like a blur as you cut, with the strobe the blade appears stationary giving you the illusion of a fixed, clear reference to follow the line.  In theory anyhow.

I think the strobe light is great, and I hope it stays.

 

[Guy Ashley]

Can someone help me here, what is the purpose of the strobe? I saw it in the videos and was confused by the whole thing (don't worry, not a seizure, I confuse easily!). I simply do not understand what it provides....

The idea is to make it easier to follow the cut line.  Normally the jigsaw blades looks like a blur as you cut, with the strobe the blade appears stationary giving you the illusion of a fixed, clear reference to follow the line.  In theory anyhow.

No theory, it does!!

 

[Jesse Cloud]

I know, I know!  Several North American testers asked how the Carvex could be fitted with Royal Wedding souvenir pictures, and the engineers in Germany are preparing the upgrade. [cool]

 

[robtonya]

My guess would be that a parts shortage from Japanese suppliers due to the earthquake, and tsunami. Most of my RC cars use Japanese motors, about the same size as a jigsaw, or drill motor. We are running at 30% capacity at my work, and told it would be that way most of the summer.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

My guess would be that a parts shortage from Japanese suppliers due to the earthquake, and tsunami. Most of my RC cars use Japanese motors, about the same size as a jigsaw, or drill motor. We are running at 30% capacity at my work, and told it would be that way most of the summer.

Don't you work for Toyota?  Boy those hybrids are shrinking (RC cars use Japanese motors).

 

[robtonya]

My guess would be that a parts shortage from Japanese suppliers due to the earthquake, and tsunami. Most of my RC cars use Japanese motors, about the same size as a jigsaw, or drill motor. We are running at 30% capacity at my work, and told it would be that way most of the summer.

Don't you work for Toyota?  Boy those hybrids are shrinking (RC cars use Japanese motors).

Yeah, I work for Toyota. Are the hybrids shrinking in size or quantity? We don't make them at our plant. I should of said all my RC cars have Japanese motors.

 

[GPowers]

Why is the title of this thread:

CANCELLED - Festool Carvex Jigsaw

I thought the Carvex was just just DELAYED? Not CANCELED. To me cancelled means, we will never see the Carvex here in the USA? [sad]

 

[peter halle]

Why is the title of this thread:

CANCELLED - Festool Carvex Jigsaw

I thought the Carvex was just just DELAYED? Not CANCELED. To me cancelled means, we will never see the Carvex here in the USA? [sad]

I guess that the title might be both accurate and also misleading.  If you read the statement from Festool USA posted within the first 2 or 3 posts in this thread I think that you could gain that:

1.  The models of the Carvex that Festool USA planned to offer in NA are not going to be brought forward - thus they are cancelled.
2.  Festool USA is going to continue to work on bringing a different Carvex here for sale in the future - thus the concept of offering it in June 2011 has been postponed.

Peter

 

[Wonderwino]

I was thinking the cordless Carvex would have been great to slice ham while camping in the mountains.  Maybe next summer. 

 

[plaidma1]

First:  Peter, thank your wife for me as well.  I also tasted her delicious chocolate concoction during class last week.  I had no idea where they came from, but Minnie and Sedge seemed trustworthy enough, so I partook, and they were great.

Now, I'm probably going to get in trouble for this, but its 5:45am and I haven't been able to sleep since 3:30, AND I'm kind of like a lawyer in that some of my favorite discussions are the ones that have already been beaten to death (you have to begrudgingly admit the intelligence of lawyers to get us to pay them at an hourly rate to argue stuff that has already been beaten), BUT:

I have to agree with Rick on the whole stroboscopic affect, language terminology notwithstanding.

I read the counter-poster's added link (remember, it was 4am and I can't sleep), and the quote that he pulled is from a section specifically dealing with fire alarms.  Its not likely that the fire alarm manufacturer is making fire alarms that pulse thousands of times per second, so the warning the site gives is just fine; i.e., keep it below 5Hz.  But then the site goes on to say:

Generally, flashing lights most likely to trigger seizures are between the frequency of 5 to 30 flashes per second (Hertz).

Not being an expert in the field (or any other field, for that matter), I am going to presume that the farther away from the 5 to 30 range that you get, the more safe your strobe light is to those who suffer...  and two orders of magnitude (i.e. not 30, nor 300, but 3000, or something like it) away is pretty darn far away.

To conclude, I think you are all fine gentlemen (and some of you are probably fine ladies), and I hope you aren't upset that I re-re-hijacked this thread.

PS.  The Carvex is really cool, and I think it should be released, even if those four guys in North America who have really exacting standards are going to think its sub-par.

 

[Michael Kellough]

A friend suffered a grand mall seizure triggered by the electronic viewfinder in a camcorder.
He was in his mid-fifties and it was the first indication that he was susceptible.

I read somewhere that in the US rules have been proposed to restrict web sites
from presenting flashing media in the range of 2 to 55 hertz.

 

[mastercabman]

OK,so let say it is the strobe light.Why isn't it an issue in Europe? Or the rest of the world ?Why just North America? ???

 

[Mavrik]

OK,so let say it is the strobe light.Why isn't it an issue in Europe? Or the rest of the world ?Why just North America? ???

NA is more eager and better prepared to litigate ...

 

[Frank Pellow]

OK,so let say it is the strobe light.Why isn't it an issue in Europe? Or the rest of the world ?Why just North America? ???

NA is more eager and better prepared to litigate ...

Much too true!  [sad] [crying] [mad] [dead horse]  This tendancy is screwing up lots and lots of things in our society.

 

[GPowers]

Would be nice to get some rough estimate on how long the Carvex delay will be.  As some of use were delaying the purchase of a jigsaw for one that was stolen.  It the delay is a few month I will wait. If the delay is going to be something like the CMS, going on for ever I will buy something else.

But the unknown time frame is hard to deal with. And I tired of using my Sawzall for Jig saw cuts. [tongue]

 

[Frank Pellow]

Would be nice to get some rough estimate on how long the Carvex delay will be.  As some of use were delaying the purchase of a jigsaw for one that was stolen.  It the delay is a few month I will wait. If the delay is going to be something like the CMS, going on for ever I will buy something else.

But the unknown time frame is hard to deal with. And I tired of using my Sawzall for Jig saw cuts. [tongue]

I would be happy to learn that this is, indeed, just a delay.  ???  My interpretation of the notice that Festool sent to their dealers, is that there is some  possibility that the Carvex may never be released in North America.   ???

Now that I have used this saw (at a class in Indiana), I know that I really want it.  But, it would be OK by me if I had to wait a year or so before I obtain one.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Greg,

The new release date for the Carvex is scheduled for the day after you buy a jigsaw.  Christian has been planning this for a while, hoping you'll give up and buy that Harbor Freight closeout.  Otherwise, in the meantime, you might want to try one of those 2-man saws.  [tongue]