Expensive MFT copy

[gompy58]

Well hello Festool, why can't we have something like this. I like the cross bracing built to the table a feature I wish Festool would consider that from the start, not as a add on.
It has some great features for sure, but it a pipe dream in NAINA Land...

Sal

Only this part allready made my smirk...

I will not buy a tool that needs an ad-on to work properly;. That adon part is 1, way to expensive and 2, fix a design mistake from my money ???

Further, this is exactly what 9at least 80% of the people here would buy if Festool had something like this.

Festool will not put this on the marked for the simple reason that nobody will then bij a cms or something like that....

I would say.... festool,designers, You have some home work... a whole lot off some...

 

[spikfot]

I have dozens of the small Wolfcraft plastic spring-clamps in 3 sizes. They are stronger and more durable than the comparable Besseys for the same price.
There you go-

 

[Sparktrician]

(By the way! Why aren't there any festool green smileys here?)

In this country, the green smileys are known as Mr. Yuk. 

[big grin]

 

[RC]

Well, saw the MasterCut 2000 table live today at the local Bauhaus and it's the same crud as the MasterCut 1000 I own - just looks a bit more like an MFT and is larger but...

All sliders are flimsy to say the least, the T-grooves move and twist, the angle adjustments don't have any positive stops, the parallel guide isn't self-aligning so you need to run around the table to get it straight and locked from both ends, the guide rail clamps are flimsy, the knobs for all sliders & screws are flimsy, the measuring tapes are stickers that were already pealing off of the show piece and there is a single tool baseplate with flimsy plastic inserts for the centre bits for saw, router & jigsaw that clip on with the small knobs moulded into the plastic and grooves in the aluminium baseplate and to top it off the on/off switch is just as flimsy as it was on the MC1k i.e. I always support it from behind with my other hand when pressing the on-button just not to break it off the table entirely.

Didn't get to evaluate the stability of it since (for a reason I guess) Bauhaus has both this and the MC1k strapped onto a shelf for display without their respective feet - otherwise I atleast would not have bought the MC1k in the first place had I  had a chance to try its non-existant stability on its own feet.

Better than the old MC1000 but a far cry of a good work table, but not really cheap for the quality @ 369€ [sad] for that money one can get plywood to build a half-size UWB.

 

[Brice Burrell]

(By the way! Why aren't there any festool green smileys here?)

In this country, the green smileys are known as Mr. Yuk. 

[big grin]

Yeah, but we do have this guy.

[attachthumb=#]

 

[agehall]

This may be a dumb question, but how much abuse are you folks doing to your work pieces if you need the cross members that badly? I've put a fair bit of force on my work pieces and the only problem I've encountered is that the whole table moves, but no cross member in the world would fix that...

While the Wolfcraft table might look like an MFT on steroids with some CMS capability built-in, I find it hard to believe it will be even close to it in practice. Since I have both an MFT and a CMS, I won't spend much time on investigating it and I'm sure that people that havn't used the equivalent Festool products might find it OK to use, but for us that have had the cool aid, I just see a world of frustration and problems...

 

[Kodi Crescent]

I'm too snobby to even consider it.