@Coen, if you thinks what Sander is doing bad why are you giving signs you do the same?
Haha, Sander Schuiten and his name-changing webshop from Zandvoort...
You start of with haha.... appearantly you as a part time employee from a dealer on the other end of the country knows Sander, what does that say? How do you know him and what have they told you? Have you checked with Sander what his side of the story is?
Ok, let set this straight:
-The guy behind GereedschapPro has some personal problem with Festool
I think it more fair to say that there's an argument between Festool and Sander.
So what do we get: a cabal of him and a few of his buddies do a fake 'test' of three jigsaws; the Mafell, the Trion and the new Carvex.
What make you give me the qualification of Sander's buddy, I'm a customer of many tool shops and where I like a lot of the people in these shop they are not my buddies.
Fake test, why is it fake? Wanna come to my house with your own Carvex 420, I'll get a piece of the wood and we can see what happens. Will you pay for all costs when the blade bends, we get sparks and the blades gets above 200 degrees?
None of us is blind and all of us can see that the blade they use in the 420 is too short. It doesn't even get 1/10 of an inch through the wood.
I don't know if the 420 keeps it's blade a little bit higher or not; perhaps. But it would still be within spec, since the Trion could cut more than spec.
This however does provide them with an easy way to show the Carvex to be 'bad'; that's why they cherry-picked the length of the blade and the thickness of the wood: half an inch less thick and it wouldn't suit their purpose. And let's be honest about that purpose: attracting traffic from those interested in Festool to show them the so called superiority of the Mafell.
Day one the blade was indeed too short, that's why the test was redone with longer blades day 2 with the same results. if you would have read this post completely rather than to shout around you would have known that.
And even if he doesn't get to sell them a Mafell he would already be happy if Festool sells less, since that's his personal obsession.
You seem to know Sander personally as you can think and speak for him, is he your buddy?
And the word 'obsession' also fits the fervor with which all of a sudden a bunch of these freshly created accounts appear on the FOG to in a magic way corroborate the story while hiding details.
Which details are hidden, I guess if FOG can track IP addresses if they want to they could see I already visited FOG as a viewer regularly. I created an account as the topic starter alerted me too it and I responded to false accusations made here.
Now the real kicker comes when you can understand the Dutch voices in the video. Starting at around 0:52 they discuss the following:
Man in background: Maybe the blade is too short
Man holding Carvex: Yes
Third person: It’s as if it’s oscillation is different
Man in background: If it’s too high [cut off by sound of Carvex]
What does that say? Based on this we went over to fesool in waddinxveen to discuss this issue. no hidden speech or whatever, just the raw footage, nothing to hide.
And in the time this topic is open they get what they want: higher page-ranking from Google.
Anyone anywhere can simply see this is a bunch of nonsense: go to your nearest Festool dealer and test the machine. If he doesn't have it in his test corner, call up your local branch of Festool, make an appointment with a representative and he will bring a test machine.
Wanne pick up the glove and do the test yourself?
Conclusion
This so called 'test' or 'comparison' done by GereedschapPro is not independent, not honest, not well-documented and not neutral.
Please explain rather than to accuse us?
It was done with a goal; to attract traffic and to make people not buy a Festool and preferably buy a Mafell.
Probably true, because up front he was convinced of the quality he's selling. If so, what's wrong with that?
Conditions were cherry picked to achieve pre-determined goal, details left out. The conversation in the video makes clear that they know why it fails.
Which details are left out? Again, 2nd day longer blades, we're definitely not stupid.
These colored-glasses 'comparisons' are a curse for those seeking honest information and should be seen as yet another scar on the reputation of this man-with-a-gripe-against-Festool.
All info presented is the testers view on the machines tested, in most cases proven by measurement and movies. Anybody is free to interpret what you see and read.
For full disclosure:
-I am an part-time employee of an official Dutch Festool dealer
-Posting here is part of my hobby, not my work
-I receive no compensation from anyone in any form for posting here although setting the record straight gives a lot of satisfaction!
-At my work I've sold both Trion and Carvex machines. With the Trion I use price, proven technology and solid way of blade changing and with the Carvex I use the extra bases, it's lower weight and stroboscope as main selling points.
-I own a Trion PS300 EBQ, purchased 2009; before becoming an employee at the Festool dealer and before the Carvex was released.
Dear Coen, If setting the record straight gives you a lot of satisfaction, please be rightful in your facts and don't start shouting around if you do not know all of them.
