How did you find Festool?

[peter halle]

Kodi,

If you have a unit in your upstairs or attic, there is a device that can be installed in your drain line that if it senses a backup will cut the power to your unit so that instead of sounding an alarm while you are at work, it will shut off the unit preventing leaking.  You might come home hot, but at least not wet.

If you are interested, I will get you the name.  I have one installed on my unit - even though both it and my hot water heater are installed in my crawl space.

Peter

 

[jmbfestool]

I had a leaflet giving to me to go to a demo show at protrade. It had dewalt irwin bosch makita n that no festool though but when I was talking to the irwin rep he said if you buy anythin irwin inside protrade I'll give you some freebies when you come outside.

So I went inside to buy something irwin lol [embarassed] walking into the shop I saw a festool TS55 and I was like if seen this on the Internet but thought nothing of it but seeing it in person made me wanna find out more about the festool brand. Any way when I walked outside the irwin guy gave me a free irwin hand saw blue coated and thermos cup and a pen and all I did was buy more chaulk/powder for my string line, not bad hey)

any way when I got home I researched festool on the internet and found Rexcrystals website and lucky for me he was having a demo day for festool milweuakee and fein. So I went to have a look! I was more interested in the milweaukee cordless stuff at first so bought the cordless m18 circular and impact. The festool rep kept on trying to show me the kapex but I was not interested as I had a 12inch makita chop saw. I asked if I could see the TS55 he was more than happy to show me and
let me cut a few work tops with it. I was impressed but was telling my self is it worth the money eventually I caved in and bought it.  Also looked at the festool drill the festool rep told me not to bother wait a few months for the new T15 lithium drill to come out instead so I did! That's how I found out about Fog cus I had a few problems with my T15 and went looking on Internet to find out if any one else was having the same problem but I couldn't cus i was one of the first people in the uk to own the T15 so I ended up posting on fog and here I am still moaning all the time  [tongue]

Thinking to my self I have spent enough I walked past the fein section but ended up turning round out of curiosity as I had never heard of the brand FEIN I was thinking it's one of those tools which won't last 10mins but I thought I'll let him demo the tool to me. I was impressed what he was showing me and nick at Rexcrystals told me it's a good brand because he told me he won't sell rubbish brands and I believed him as I could not see any dewalt or makita for sale in his shop. So I ended up buying the fein multi master also.  

Soon as I got home I took my brand new Bosch planer I had bought 2 days before and not used to my local store and swapped it for the festool ehl65 cus I thought if it's as good as the TS55 the planer must be good.

Jmb    

So I ended up

 

[Corwin]

Were they lost?    [unsure]

 

[HowardH]

Local woodcraft dealer.  Walked by them for over a year, especially when I saw their prices.  I thought they were nuts!  Then started reading BT3 forum and there was discussion there as well as on Woodnet.net.  Christmas came and santa left a RO150 and CT22 under the tree.  I have had to delay retirement for about 15 years ever since.

 

[LostInTheWood]

I knew they existed, but never thought of buying because of the prices.  Then one day I wanted better dust collection.  I was getting tired of the 'ol ridgid shop vac screaming in my ear, hodge podge hose connections for tools, and still a mess to clean up when it was time to empty.  I started doing some research on vacs and Festool was the only one that not only supplied a professional quality vac, but a whole line of tools that work with it as well.  Glad I chose Festool.   

BTW Nilfisk and CS Unitec make some pretty impressive vacs.

 

[Scott_W]

I was introduced to them by Kreg. Well I was like most and thought they were way overpriced. But as my business progressed I found myself buying and upgrading tools all the time to where it was no longer the price, it was the quality and time savings it could produce.

HoneyDo Kreg has been telling me about them for a couple years. All my tools were recently stolen, so I figured it was time once again to upgrade and try something new. Kreg was actually the one that did the most "selling" out of anyone. I was at a few different woodworking and trade shows and wasn't overly convinced by what I saw.  

Anyhow, Kreg called me several times (long distance to Canada!)  to make sure I was on the right track. He was persistent and I figured if he was that passionate about the tools there must be something to them. So I pretty much dove in with both feet. I am trying to get the orders in before my wife notices how much they all add up to!  [eek] I am sure once I meet up with him at JLC he will show me something else I "need"  [tongue]

So Festool, what are you sending Kreg for his commission?  [big grin]

Edit: Just to clarify, I bought in the US, if I was to buy in Canada, Dan Claremont in BC would be my choice hands down. I met him a few years ago in Toronto, he was a class act. Unfortunately I only have so much money to work with from insurance so I needed to shop in the US.

scott

 

[davee]

About five years ago I promised my wife a new kitchen, and she agreed to swap my building all of the cabinets for new tools.  My shop is too small to break down plywood on the table saw, and I thought I'd need to buy/build a panel saw.  In looking at options, I went to my local woodworking store where they were demonstrating Festools.  Comparing the cost, size, fexibility, dust control of a panel saw versus the TS55 was easy.  I had no idea how many new tools were in store in the future.  I keep trading projects for tools.

 

[Wonderwino]

I had been "volunteered" to be the lead carpenter renovating our local Elks lodge.  One of the tasks was to build a17' bar from native ash, walnut and honey locust that was all rough, right off the sawmill.  I had been drooling on the Festool pages of the McFeely's catalog for years and took the plunge with a TS75, CT33, Domino and a couple of sanders.  Building the rail & stile base and cutting the long, straight cuts could not have been easier with the Domino & TS75.  I used the RO125FEQ to scribe the base to the floor in the finished bar room with almost no dust.  The other guys were amazed!

Since then, I have aquired about 20 systainers/sortainers and the boom arm for the CT33.  I still need a few more before I can build my wife's kitchen....