This comment is too late to the party, but it will be good to have it in the archives. I went to this event today, to the exhibition part only. There were about 20-30 booths of different manufacturers (Festool, Skil, GRC (screws), etc). They were showing their products, giving away catalogs, candies, pencils, screw samples, etc. Some of them were selling their products, I've seen people walking around with saws and staplers, but not Festool. Festool had a rather small exhibition in terms of number of tools, smaller than what you see at at some of the local dealers, but Festool reps there were helpful (one of them apparently came from Indianapolis, one from Seattle) and were showing some recently released products, such as flashlights and Vecturo. There were also several fairly good tutorials on finish carpentry, deck building, etc. I found it amusing that most presenters in these complementary shows use Festool for their demos, e.g., I saw a few Kapexes scattered around in the presentation areas. Gari Katz's presentation on building mantels for the first 30 mins was discussion of how to set up the Domino. I learned a few tricks, although it felt too short in some aspects and rushed in the others. Was it worth coming? I had just a couple of hours to spend there, if I could come both days and attend more presentations, it would definitely be a good learning experience.
