cool tools

[billybokay]

Episode of cool tools on diy had a segment on the ts 75 saw last night. I have the 55 and did not have any plans on the 75. But now I don't know. Maybe.

 

[Lou Miller]

What were they doing with the 75 that you couldn't do with your 55? More importantly, would you actually do the things they did with the 75? I have a need every once in a great while for more cutting capacity. However, its not often that I'd want to get a 75. 99.9% of the time, the 55 is more than I need.

 

[HowardH]

looks like the domino is going to be on next week.  This may be a good show...

 

[billybokay]

Lou... There is really nothing I need the 75 for that I can't do with the 55. I am just upset that I could'nt say.. I have that saw. They also showed the powermatic table saw and I have a saw stop. It had me thinking..maybe I need a powermatic.
I guess I am a sucker for tool sales pitches. Especially since I have been totally thrilled with all the festool stuff I have purchased.

 

[Lou Miller]

Lou... There is really nothing I need the 75 for that I can't do with the 55. I am just upset that I could'nt say.. I have that saw. They also showed the powermatic table saw and I have a saw stop. It had me thinking..maybe I need a powermatic.
I guess I am a sucker for tool sales pitches. Especially since I have been totally thrilled with all the festool stuff I have purchased.

Okay... At least you're honest. IMO, the 55 is the ever so slightly better saw, so don't worry about not owning what they showed on TV. If they had a Ryobi on there would you sell your 55 and buy the Ryobi? If you ever do something like that, I'll give you double what the Ryobi costs for the 55, deal?

You also got a better saw in the Sawstop. Granted, you paid a ton more for it, but its definitely a better saw.

 

[Michael Kellough]

looks like the domino is going to be on next week.  This may be a good show...

When will that be?

 

[Dave Ronyak]

I see little reason for the TS 75 unless your work will be with a lot of 8/4 (2X) and thicker stock.  Just more weight to lift each time you use it and a need for a longer guide rail.  The more I use my Festool products, particularly the TS 55 and various sanders, and compare them to my other tools (excepting my Inca jointer/planer and my trusty old Milwaukee corded tools), the more favorably impressed I become.  Why?  Because they come closer to working as advertised than the others, and don't need a lot of fiddling around to adjust them.  In contrast, while I still think it a good tool, my JoinTech "Cabinet Maker" fence machine and router table extension for my General TS required many hours to setup and adjust before working well.  My TS 55 came with toe-out instead of toe-in, but even so, it still cut rather cleanly when trimming several new oak passage doors.  My Domino required no adjustments.

Dave R.

 

[Tinker]

I see little reason for the TS 75 unless your work will be with a lot of 8/4 (2X) and thicker stock.  Just more weight to lift each time you use it and a need for a longer guide rail.  The more I use my Festool products, particularly the TS 55 and various sanders, and compare them to my other tools (excepting my Inca jointer/planer and my trusty old Milwaukee corded tools), the more favorably impressed I become.  Why?  Because they come closer to working as advertised than the others, and don't need a lot of fiddling around to adjust them.  In contrast, while I still think it a good tool, my JoinTech "Cabinet Maker" fence machine and router table extension for my General TS required many hours to setup and adjust before working well.  My TS 55 came with toe-out instead of toe-in, but even so, it still cut rather cleanly when trimming several new oak passage doors.  My Domino required no adjustments.

Dave R.

I have been fixing up an old workbench for my grandson.  Ripping 2x fir with my ATF 55 and no problems.

BTW:  The "old" workbench is one my father built for me around my 8  yr old Christmas in 1939 (I think)  It has seen some hard times and managed to live thru my late teens and early 20's when it got used for fixing engines and trannys and such unwoodworking projects as young guys interrested in keeping their wheels at top speed all of the time. It was caked with grease and oil and, I think some asphault roof coating of some kind from when I was in mason trade and probably doing some sort of sealing of an aluminum flashing fabrication of some sort.  I first attacked the top surface with my Fein to knock off the roof cement.  From there, my RO 150 did a great job of smoothing out the rouhness left from the Fein.  The tool channel at the back of the bench was too narrow for my RO 150, so i worked on that with my LS 130, doin the 3/4" hih verticals with the 90? sander and the 5" wide flat surface with the LS 130.  With the Ro 150, I started with 80 grit and then 100 grit.  For the flat area of the tray part, i started with 50 grit and then to 100 right away as that is the coarsest grit i have for that toy. The bench surface is quarter sawn 2x4 pine glued together.  The grain is very close.  In those days, you could get old growth pine, fir and hardwoods with very close growth rings.  The legs are D-fir, and again, the grain is very tight and quarter sawn.  My dad was a very particular craftsman.

It is not every 9 year old boy (my GS's age as of two weeks ago) who has a workbench built by his great grandfather. 
Tinker

 

[billybokay]

They had the Domino on last night. Raved about it. But then again , they rave about all the tools on the show. I wonder how much it costs the manufacturer to have their tool featured.