Entry into Festool?

[semenza]

HI,

       This type of question has been raised before , but I couldn't find it in Poll form nor quite as specific. I just thought this would be interesting and it would be great if most of the 3,000+ members would take part

       It is my belief from my own experience and reading this forum that most people are drawn to Festool by the Plunge saws. Though this may be more prevalent in North America, hence the NA specific choices. I have put specific choices and one to cover other plunge saws that may not be available world wide, or that I do not know about.  For the specific choices please included all versions of the basic model as part of that selection. Example- TS55Q and TS55EBQ etc should all be considered TS55 for purposes of this poll.  Please also include saws under the Festo name. 

      If you are choosing one of the non-saw selections , products that are not power tools COUNT Also.

      I think it will be interesting to see these results. And to see if they change over time. If you have not purchased anything Festool yet, please come back and vote when and if you do.

      My first Festool purchase was the ATF55.

      BTW, for those that may be concerned. I am not attempting to collect any marketing data here. And I doubt that this is scientific enough anyway.

Seth

srs

 

[Frank Pellow]

To make the survy more complete, I suggest that you add the choice 'a plunge saw was not part of my first Festool purchase'.  By the way, it was part of mine (an AFT55).

 

[Ned]

Seth--

I think you need to rename the poll.  As it is, it only attracts people who are interested in the saws, or read everything.  Will skew the results I suspect.

My first Festool was the LS130 sander.  Sanders are also entry points to the slippery slope.

Ned

 

[semenza]

Hi,

   O.K. I have changed the tital and added the non- saw selection.

Seth

 

[bruegf]

Rotex 125 and CT22

 

[semenza]

Hi,

    I split the non-saw selection to NA and World Wide as seperate choices. There were only 6 non-saw votes at this point and I know for sure that two of them were in NA. So the non-saw vs. saw total will not be skewed, but there may be a four vote skew between the two non-saw selections.

Seth

 

[Frank-Jan]

My dad bought an ATF 55 by accident in 2001. He wanted to get an aditional smal circular saw, and these were on special, came in a nice case, with an extra straight edge thingy, but he didn't look at it thoroughly in the shop (nor at the price I guess). When he brought it to the jobsite, he showed it to me and thought it was weird, and wanted to return the thing that couldn't be set to a fixed depth. After skimming the manual I convinced him, instead of returning it, to get an extra 140 guide rail, the connector, a pair of clamps, and the saw blade for cutting trespa (very hard resin board, for low maintenance exterior panels).  The 300 guide rail followed after about 6 months, and we 've been sliding along since.

edit/typo involving dried grapes

 

[Tom the Remodeler]

I wonder if adding Systainers would be an option! I bought nearly $1000 worth of Systainers before I bought my first Festool tool (TS55/CT22 combo).

 

[Fred West]

I bought a Domino and CT 22 as my first Festool purchases.  ;D : Fred

 

[Bob Marino]

My first Festool purchase was the PS 2E jigsaw....many moons ago.

Bob

 

[Mirko]

The saw + vac combo are the meat & potatoes, everything else is just... masturbation

Mirko

 

[Madtown Rob]

I was lucky enough that my wife went to Festool Training for the company that she works for.  When she returned she said "wow - now I know what you have been drooling over these tools for!" 
Well, I had a near miss on the table saw that scared the heck out of me and she was also sick of the dust in the garage - um I mean - shop.  I did a project for her parents and in return I got  a TS-55, CT-22, MFT-1080 and ro150feq!

Have added some systainers with screw assortments and a RS2e.  Falling further down the slope each month!

-R

 

[semenza]

I wonder if adding Systainers would be an option! I bought nearly $1000 worth of Systainers before I bought my first Festool tool (TS55/CT22 combo).

Hi,

      I would definetly call systainers Festool equipment / product. Especially in the US.

Seth

 

[semenza]

The saw + vac combo are the meat & potatoes, everything else is just... masturbation

Mirko

    Well, thats one way to put it. But I don't know about all those sharp tools around :-X

Seth

 

[Dan Clermont]

My first was the TS-55 and extra guide rail... and then a month later that OF 1400 looked pretty cool and I already had the guide rail.... and then Mirko bought over his Rotex....well I needed one of those... might as well get the CT 22 with the Rotex..... Could use a MFT, gotta get that.... The Domino would sure make things faster and it did.... win a Centrotec in the Festool Junkie contest... need the C12 now .... that was 2007!

Dan C

 

[Eli]

If I HAD only bought one thing first it would have been saw and rail. Let's just say I got more than one thing first and leave it at that.

 

[semenza]

If I HAD only bought one thing first it would have been saw and rail. Let's just say I got more than one thing first and leave it at that.

Hi,

   The poll question does include a plunge saw as a portion of the first purchase.  I figured since many of them are purchased with a CT or MFT. Or when you start to order / buy the saw you end up going for other stuff too. That including saws as a part of the first purchase would be the way to set this up.  I could have broken the poll down to many more possible buying combinations.  But this is not scientific market research.  Just some interesting fun.

    Eli, did you manage to fill a truck all by yourself?

Seth

Seth

 

[Steveo48]

My first festool was the ETS 125 sander.  At $165.00 a comparatively inexpensive entry to gauge the quality of Festools.

Steve

Seth--

I think you need to rename the poll.  As it is, it only attracts people who are interested in the saws, or read everything.  Will skew the results I suspect.

My first Festool was the LS130 sander.  Sanders are also entry points to the slippery slope.

Ned

 

[Eli]

    Eli, did you manage to fill a truck all by yourself?

Seth

I picked up almost everything myself, free shipping for the odd purchase.

 

[Bob Childress]

My first was a CT-22. All by itself. Nothing else. Ruined me.  ;D  Then the Rotex, OF 1010, ETS 150/3, etc.  . . . the saw came later because I already had a TS, SCMS and decent CS.