How to get younger tradespeople to buy Festool or other high quality tools...

[fin]

im 33, i bought my first festool about a year ago. i got the ctl midi, then about 6 months ago i got a ts55.

id not heard of festool until a few years ago when www.its.co.uk started selling them.

top of my head i have a dewalt mitre saw, hitachi circ saw, bosch planer and sds drill, passlode 2nd fix gun, dewalt and makita first fix guns, makita router and jigsaw, fein multi master, probs a few other odds and sods, i think the cheapest thing is probably my cordless drill which is an aeg and cost £100 ish.

certainly my gear wasnt cheap. and i expect it all to last me a long time. if i was slightly younger i probvably would have gone festool sooner. but as far as i know its only relatively recently that ive started seeing festool advertised more and more.

and now when im chating to a younger joiner i always say to them to consider festool.

i would deffinatley consider a kapex in the future atleast. and perhaps a jigsaw.

 

[Hookie]

A Kapex is likely to be my next Festool purchase. But then I'm no chicken!

 

[tom46]

I have to say i totally agree that buying festool from a young age is best. When I started my apprenticeship 5 years ago i worked in a joinery shop with all old machinery/ tools. After 3 years in the job i was bored didn't know if i wanted to keep up with carpentry & joinery. Due to my health i lost my job (which tbh i wasn't too bothered as i hated it there).
Anyway long story short i decided i would give it another try and go self-employed and started buying the green stuff as i'm a great believer in buy cheap buy twice. So in the pasted 2 months i've  spent over £2000 out on mainly festool products and have to say now i'm totally in love with carpentry again. Festool has made me learn so much on how you do things the right way and how enjoyable the work can be. I'm now 21 and after a 4 year slumb in my work i feel renewed and love my job. I hope i can continue to learn earn and buy festool as i go.

This is what i have so far after 2 months:  [big grin] [smile]

 

[Kodi Crescent]

I don't expect a novice tradespeople to have routers or domino joiners. Your apprentices use the tools you train them on. Their starting kits should be proportionate to their output and ability, it also has to make sense to them financially and their investment in tools should be appropriate for their income. I'll let festool and others do their own marketing.

it is funny how this company has figured out how to use its customers to market for them. look at the video contests! if you were to put a dollar value on all that marketing media i bet everyone really saved them a lot of money.

Yeah, they crowd source a portion of their support to a forum...