Interesting Partnership

[Mario Turcot]

New announcement hot from the oven.

 

[oberlin1]

Well Tommy has been using their products for years...that is how I learned of the brand.

 

[GoingMyWay]

Tommy has been giving Festool free advertising for a long time.

I believe I first learned about Festool by seeing Tommy use them on This Old House and Ask This Old House.  There have been some Festool giveaways like the CXS drill for This Old House Insiders a couple times already.

 

[Mario Turcot]

Well Tommy has been using their products for years...that is how I learned of the brand.

I watched only a few this old house episodes but a lot of the new Yankee workshop episodes and don't recall seeing any Festool. I really like Norm way to do woodworking and hope this partnership will add to my arsenal of how to

 

[GoingMyWay]

I really like Norm way to do woodworking and hope this partnership will add to my arsenal of how to

You mean making a jig for everything and using lots of biscuits  [wink]?

 

[nclemmons]

[member=5]Bob Marino[/member] first introduced Tommy to Festool years ago.  He has some great stories from those early days and demos.

 

[GoingMyWay]

I didn't mean to sound condescending toward Norm and the New Yankee Workshop.  I hope it did not come across that way.  New Yankee Workshop and Norm are awesome!  I know I was always in awe by how many clamps he had and how he had just about any power tool you could ever want or need in his shop.

As a side note, This Old House Insiders now have seasons 1-5 of New Yankee Workshop available to watch on demand.

 

[Dick Mahany]

I really like Norm way to do woodworking and hope this partnership will add to my arsenal of how to

You mean making a jig for everything and using lots of biscuits  [wink]?

Or as Norm often said "Just a few brads while the glue sets" [smile]

 

[Mario Turcot]

I really like Norm way to do woodworking and hope this partnership will add to my arsenal of how to

You mean making a jig for everything and using lots of biscuits  [wink]?

I must have miss those, what episode was that  [tongue]

 

[peter halle]

Personally I think that this is GREAT!

Not only for Festool but also as an example for all of us in the woodworking / carpentry / contracting end as an example.  When you make a contact - any contact - you never know where it might go in the future.  You don't alienate and you are always there.  It might not pan out immediately, situations may change, but always be around.  Sometimes it isn't always about how much money or effort you throw at it, sometimes it is just time and the aligning of different thoughts.

Peter

 

[Wooden Skye]

I like Norm, and learned a lot over the years, and met him at Connect.  I wonder if this new partnership means Festool is coming out with a brad and pin nailer! 

 

[Holzhacker]

Years ago, back in the early days of TOH, myself and other contractors would sit around the lunch counter talking about ways to kill Bob on a job site.
My guess is some of you may have also run into this.
You go look at a job for a homeowner, have a discussion and at some point the homeowner asks how long the job will take. You tell them 1, 2, 3 weeks whatever the deal is.
You then notice that husband and wife are looking at each other a bit oddly. At least that's the way you perceive it. After the first few times though you come to realize what that look means.
Then the homeowners ask something along the lines of do you work alone, are you only going to be here part time, etc. Again, the first couple times this happens, you wonder what the hell is wrong with these people.
Of course you tell them no me and my guys will be here full time, etc.
Then comes the question: Well, Bob and his crew get this kind of job done in a day or two. Why is it going to take you so long?
At that point, as a contractor I have to decide do I want this job and say something nice
Or do I not give a crap because these people are stupid and I have other work lined up. Because as soon as you as the contractor ask, 'Have you never heard of film editing to fit the time slot'; the job is dead since you just politely asked the client if he realizes him and his wife are morons.
If someone were going to ask me what's the best and worst thing that has happened for homeowners in the last 20+ years in relation to rehab my answer would be the same. Home shows.
As far as Festool and TOH, awesome.
Maybe if they get enough sales prices will come down.  [laughing]

 

[DeformedTree]

Well Tommy has been using their products for years...that is how I learned of the brand.

I watched only a few this old house episodes but a lot of the new Yankee workshop episodes and don't recall seeing any Festool. I really like Norm way to do woodworking and hope this partnership will add to my arsenal of how to

They stopped making new episodes of NYW long ago (show ran from 1989 to 2009).  He was doing that show before Festool really existed in the US, (internet says Festool Launched in US in 2000).

The show was from a different era where everything was based around a massive Delta table saw (main sponsor of show),  Everything was about dovetail joints, and owning 37 routers.  And the exotic tool was the Biscuit jointer.   

I watched it all the time and it was a good show. But at the same time it was limited to a particular type of carpentry and tool set.  While he would occasionally go off course and say build a boat. It was basic traditional furniture and his shop was what a lot of folks would like to get to, a big building room for a big saw.  I think the show largely stopped because they ran out of ideas within that format. You can only make so many colonial drop side tables.  I don't think he ever did anything like "Today we will make a Mid Century Chair utilizing a vacuum bagger to form our own bent plywood".

I don't much doubt if it was re-created today, you would probably see a lot of Festool.  Lots of home improvement shows have them on screen even when it's pretty clear they aren't paid to be there but are what the people doing the work actually use.  Tom Silva is an example of that.

 

[jeh]

New announcement hot from the oven.

Nothing to report here as they have been using Festool products since the early 2000's. It might be more formal, but nothing has changed. I will say what has changed is the piece of crap magazine TOH has morphed into. I had a subscription to it for many years up until 2010 or so when I completed the move to the Journal of Light Construction. The publishers sent me re-up mailings for years and I finally folded this summer at $18 for 3 years thinking there has to be $18 worth of information in it over 3 years. After flipping through the first few pages and reading the note from the editor I knew I had wasted $18. It is but a shadow of itself with touchy feely do-it-yourself articles (how to make a planter, painting tips and tricks, etc). JLC is headed that way too, but I am holding out.

 

[GoingMyWay]

This Old House Ventures used to be owned by Time Inc.  Time Inc. sold This Old House Ventures to a new owner in April 2016.  I wonder if that change of ownership had anything to do with the decline.

 

[pettyconstruction]

When I watched the show , seeing some festools , I knew they bought them with their oun money. It added some credibility to the choice of tools.
Now maybe not. 
Charlie

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[Jim Metzger]

Anxiously waiting for the dark blue / Festool green plaid work ware.

 

[JFelchlin]

Hey JimH2:
I completely agree with you regarding the “demise” of the This Old House magazine.
I was an avid subscriber/reader for several years.
When it “morphed” from a DIY magazine - To a “decorating” magazine - “Game over”.
I discontinued my subscription.
BTW...
I understand that Tom Silva BUYS his own tools - Including Festool tools.

 

[sancho57]

[member=6145]Holzhacker[/member]

Years ago, back in the early days of TOH, myself and other contractors would sit around the lunch counter talking about ways to kill Bob on a job site.
My guess is some of you may have also run into this.
You go look at a job for a homeowner, have a discussion and at some point the homeowner asks how long the job will take. You tell them 1, 2, 3 weeks whatever the deal is.
You then notice that husband and wife are looking at each other a bit oddly. At least that's the way you perceive it. After the first few times though you come to realize what that look means.
Then the homeowners ask something along the lines of do you work alone, are you only going to be here part time, etc. Again, the first couple times this happens, you wonder what the heck is wrong with these people.
Of course you tell them no me and my guys will be here full time, etc.
Then comes the question: Well, Bob and his crew get this kind of job done in a day or two. Why is it going to take you so long?
At that point, as a contractor I have to decide do I want this job and say something nice
Or do I not give a crap because these people are stupid and I have other work lined up. Because as soon as you as the contractor ask, 'Have you never heard of film editing to fit the time slot'; the job is dead since you just politely asked the client if he realizes him and his wife are morons.
If someone were going to ask me what's the best and worst thing that has happened for homeowners in the last 20+ years in relation to rehab my answer would be the same. Home shows.
As far as Festool and TOH, awesome.
Maybe if they get enough sales prices will come down.  [laughing]

Hehehehe so true. Since the DIY network came out and all these people started watching it. They really  think some of these jobs can be done in a half hour or hour whatever the show is.

Though Im not a contractor, my wife thinks I take to long to do things, she watches these shows and think they just walk in and everything gets done, she doesnt realize, Im a one man crew, I build things like cabinets and closet organizers etc rather than buy and being alone and sometimes making due wo buying specialized tools etc things take a lot longer.

I do farm things out that I dont like to do, dry wall, exterior painting, and now (grrrrrrr) termite repair rafter tails, and roof repair.

I really like the movie the "Money Pit"  HO: How long will it take? contractor: "2 weeks" HO: when can you start?, Contractor When your check clears the bank.

and another good part, Ut Oh they upset the the Plumber.

hehehehe love that movie

 

[James Biddle]

Wouldn't you pay money to see the look on Norm or Bob's face as the smoke started rising up from the Kapex?