Festool Roadshow - Houston

[deepcreek]

A big THANK YOU to Festool USA for bringing the roadshow event to Houston this year.

My brother and I attended yesterday's stop at Circle Saw Builders Supply and had a great time.  The Roadshow is moving on to Houston's Woodcraft Southwest today (Friday) and Woodcraft North on Saturday.

They were short a staff member and Christian Stuetzle jokingly asked if we could stick around after we helped demonstrate the Kapex.  Sometimes a pro user sharing real life experiences makes a bigger impression on other carpenters than a sales representative.  We certainly sold a lot of Festool when we used to volunteer to do the monthly demo's for our local Rockler store.

We also had the pleasure of spending time with Allen Kensley.  Here's a couple of photos of him demonstrating loose tenon joinery with the Domino XL.  My brother Erich is looking on to pick up new tricks.

 

[cperren]

Looking forward to the show coming to Austin next week.

 

[deepcreek]

After going to the show at Circle Saw, we actually attended the Woodcraft Southwest event yesterday and seriously considered driving across town to the Woodcraft North event today.

There is a lot to see!

 

[tjbnwi]

My wife and I are going to be in Denver the week before the road show gets there. If someone had not screwed up the air reservations I would have been there (and attending) for the shows.

Tom

 

[deepcreek]

Tom,

I wasn't sure what to expect but I had a blast.

Sorry for your wife's "mix-up".  I guess now you'll have to go shopping and site-seeing with her.

 

[tjbnwi]

Wasn't the wife, our oldest daughter (lives in Denver, she made the plans) who is never ever, never having children-------is pregnant with twins ([laughing] [laughing] [laughing]), needless to say me nor my wife are brave enough to tell her she made a scheduling error. We both changed our plans to accommodate.

Tom

 

[deepcreek]

Congratulations are in order then!  [thumbs up]

 

[tjbnwi]

Thanks, she and her husband will be great parents.

Wife is planning a shopping spree, I have a daddy do list. Biggest problem is getting what I need there. Packing boxes of tools and material to ship. I think I'm going to have a 3000 and 1400 guide rail delivered from a dealer, maybe a Mini or Sys Vac also. Wish Tom was around to take care of this, a simple text and things magically show up.

Tom