Hi to all, new member.

[Bob Gerritsen]

Hi Bob - and welcome to FOG !
I really likes the website and your kitchens and others. I have the same set of festools as you and my first Festo(ol) was a OF900 as well and like yours it is still working as when new. These tools lasts - I actually just bought one of the early 'rutchers' some months ago - it is prox 50 years old and still working but mainly bought for sitting on a shelve!

On your website you state that you dont use particleboard when doing kitchens - what do you use for the corpus then?

As a pro webguy since 1996 I would give you this light feedback though:

- the background color is well hmm err ... your choise 8^)
- the image pop-up component has to be replaced. It flickers way to much when browsing and I know that theres plenty too choose from on Joomla.

Hi Meldgaard,

Funny we have the same collection! And many thanks for the feedback. The color seemed a good idea back then but I want something a bit fresher now. There are a number of things I think I might change, not quite sure how far I'll take it but I think it's time for something new.
I'll forward the image pop-up thing to my website guy don't really understand that.

I prefer to use birch plywood for the cabinets, have to say though I've been using some particle board lately. That has to do with a number of things but primarily the fact that a lot of finishes only exist on particle board...

Cheers, Bob.

 

[Bob Gerritsen]

Many thanks for all the compliments btw!

Gonna try to post some workshop pics soon but will look for the right place for that.

Cheers.

 

[Wonderwino]

Welcome, Bob!  Looking forward to seeing your work in the "Member Projects" section.  I not only butcher wood, but waste good wood and alcohol cooking at barbeque contests here in Kansas.   [scared]

 

[semenza]

Many thanks for all the compliments btw!

Gonna try to post some workshop pics soon but will look for the right place for that.

Cheers.

There are several threads for shop pics including this recent one  http://festoolownersgroup.com/member-projects/let's-see-pictures-of-your-shops/

You may start a seperate one for your shop if you want though.

Seth

 

[Bob Gerritsen]

Thanks Seth, just checked that thread out, very nice. I'll def post my pics there, I've moved the shop about 6 months ago so I'll try to lookup some nice pics chronologically for a slideshow of sorts. Might take a couple days though, a lot of work planned for the coming days.

I always enjoy shop pics, being in my own shop too many hours a week sort of enables tunnel vision. Seeing other shops gets me thinking on a very elementary level. You know, like "what am I doing here??? Aaarghhh!!!!"
But seriously, I've concluded my shop is somewhat Northern American in approach, especially compared to other shops over here. I'm sure that has something to do with spending time on forums like these.

By the way Seth, weren't you the one that was working on a commercial table for cutting sheets with rail and plunge saw? Stumble over a thread about that ones, thought it was yours but can't find it anywhere...

Cheers.

 

[semenza]

I built and still use a large cutting table for my shop.  Here  But I wasn't trying to develop it for sale or the like.

I also have T-track set into the top of my 4' x 8' bench but I don't do any cutting on that.

Seth

 

[Bob Gerritsen]

Seth, thanks for the reply. Saw it just now, for some reason I've missed it before.

Very nice table!

 

[Festool Hill]

Great to meet you Bob! Welcome to the FOG and greetings from Canada

 

[Alan m]

hi there im that alan. i some how missed this thread. any way a big cead mila failta or 100,000 welcomes. so there guy and jmb. didnt look at the site yet but it sound good