onocoffee
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He won't say it himself but - CRG is a Slayer. If you look through his build posts, you'll understand.
"I'm too poor to afford cheap tools"; What Festools exude value?
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He won't say it himself but - CRG is a Slayer. If you look through his build posts, you'll understand.
luvmytoolz
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Is this not the norm? ;-)
Michael Kellough
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Not a Slayer but, hmm, in order of purchase, Stanley (bought out by Bosch), might also be a similar vintage B&D Industrial in a drawer, gave a Craftsman away, Hitachi, Porter Cable, Bosch, Milwaukee, Rigid, Festool, Makita, Dewalt.
Edited out the x? indicating multiple’s because it’s too embarrassing.
Edited out the x? indicating multiple’s because it’s too embarrassing.
luvmytoolz
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Who didn't start with a TR12 or 3600 as the beefy router back in the day!
Michael Kellough
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Yep, TR12 (or earlier?) plunge router. The only game going for a while. Hitachi was really strong in engineering back then with the first plunge router, the first sliding compound miter saw, and the first cordless impact driver. I was saddened and appalled when it seemed (25 years later?) they replaced engineers with sneaker designers.
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Ah, ok. Used wasn't so apparent, in the original post, makes sense though.
I'm still not following? The rods, collets, wrench, and fence are all stored in specific places. The wrench is not under the router itself, but that's because the 1010s lay on their side, while the 1400 is upright. There is more space down there.
As far as the router thing...I'm a recently retired pro, from a large commercial cabinet shop, in a major city. My general form of OCD has a "be ready for anything at any time" mindset. The 8 was just brands.....no mention of quantity (here at least, some of these guys know how bad it is) I keep all of them loaded with a specific bit, with only a couple of them as "free agents". By doing that, there is very little bit changing going on. I even had two router tables, one with a 1/4" collet, the other 1/2", but I have 8mm too......just in case
Part of it was just years of experience. I put the bit into the router where it works best, for me.
I like the body-grip, fixed base, Milwaukee for edge work. The bits in those have never been changed. The included 1/4" collets, never installed.
The Porter-Cable 890 is a free agent, mostly because I don't like it much.
Many of the others are the compact/trimmer variety. I have so many of them because of the multiple bases. Rather than swapping to a tilt base, offset base, or under-scribe base, I just grab a different router.
I keep round over bits in routers that don't have optional bases. I can tell which is which by brand, without even seeing the bit, at times when I have several out at once.
It sounds complicated, but I assure you, it saves a lot of time.
I almost did too. If it had a Plug-it cable I would have, but that held me back. I was really hoping that they were going to up-date them and re-release it that way. Sadly it never happened.
For some of us it is....
Even with all of that, I still have multiple storage places for loose bits. Three different Systainers and a couple of drawers full. Be ready for anything.
I have bought tools that I needed for a specific job, knowing it wouldn't get there in time, just to have it for next time. It will happen again.
I have had to finish projects, by the original plan, after realizing I could have done it a different way, with a different tool/process. Then buy that tool, for the next time.
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luvmytoolz
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They did a nice job on the Battlestar Galactica Cylon model though! ;-)
Although it really needed the red glowing LED's!
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friedchicken
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No, I mean with festool, there's a place for everything, and everything has its place; ergo I won't lose bits and pieces and have to chase everywhere to find them.
The OF1010's accessories aren't as good as the OF1400's accessories, but I think FT just announced a new parallel edge guide for the of1010 that doesn't suck.
That makes more sense; I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I don't have room for tools. I need everything to be comprehensive and stored right. With this router, I guess I'll have three: this one, my d-handle porter cable, and a mini ryobi built into my bt3000 table saw/router table. I expect the OF1400 will take over all tasks the porter cable did, but I'm hanging on to it b/c 1. it's good, 2. it's rare, 3. backup, 4. I like it.
I need to get the Parallel edge guide from somewhere (I also have the porter cable one, and it's pretty excellent).
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