That's what happens when great tools get used by great men.
They always come up with applications of the tool the creator of it had never foreseen.
I had a similar experience when I was in an R&D department of a software company and had developed a programming language. The programmers using the language where bending it into elegant solutions I never could imagine. That was a great feeling, I can assure you, when others help to raise your 'baby' along the expectations you had, and even further. Something like having your daughter dating a guy that you like as well.
This could even support the fact that the manuals of Festool are as crappy as they are: Festool cannot document all the ideas that still are waiting to be come up with by great users of their tools. Documenting the uses already known would probably limit the users in developing new ideas. It's easier to think out of the box when there is just a small box, or no box at all. Festool users are smart users. They know why the tools cost what they cost, and can justify the investment. They have to think for themselves to come up with great ideas like the one this thread started with. So the manual is just limited to that what's needed for basic usage and safety warnings and whatever the law requires to be there. Every other technique to use the tool Festool allows the credit to go to the inventor of that technique.
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Karel
