lot's more green showing up on TV

[HowardH]

Have you noticed how many more DIY shows are showcasing the green?  Was watching House Crashers and they were using a TS55 to rip some plywood.  Seems to me that more and more of these types of shows are using Festool.  It started with Tommy Silva on TOH and has expanded from there.  I wonder how many viewers are watching these shows and wondering what are those green tools? Does Festool supply these tools or have the show hosts discovered them on their own?  Also, for the non-NA Festooligans, are there many DIY shows in your home countries and are they using Festools?  It's kind of a underneath the radar approach for advertising.   

 

[JimB1]

They had a Domino XL on "Cool Tools" the other day on the DIY channel, (Also a nice section on Lie Nielsen which is one of my favorite hand tool companies).
-Jim

 

[#Tee]

been like this for a while

 

[jaymon5]

the sad thing is that they don't always use dust extraction  [eek]

 

[Bigchasbroon]

To answer the Non NA question, here in the UK the diy shows suck. There are a few shows which following people building their own homes and often the contractors on these shows use festool.

I think there's a fundamental cultural difference between the UK and US. Here if we could afford to buy festools as a hobby we could afford to get a professional in. I don't know any festool owner who doesnt use them for his living. People generally do DIY as a money saving route and those who don't value a craftsman tend not to value quality tools.

Most hobby woodworkers I know are turners and over 60.

 

[JimB1]

To answer the Non NA question, here in the UK the diy shows suck. There are a few shows which following people building their own homes and often the contractors on these shows use festool.

I think there's a fundamental cultural difference between the UK and US. Here if we could afford to buy festools as a hobby we could afford to get a professional in. I don't know any festool owner who doesnt use them for his living. People generally do DIY as a money saving route and those who don't value a craftsman tend not to value quality tools.

Most hobby woodworkers I know are turners and over 60.

Well, honestly the DIY shows here in the US suck pretty much too   I miss The New Yankee Workshop. Woodsmith and the Woodwright's shop are only on sporadically so it's tough to find them. I gave up on the DIY channel for the most part when they dumped David Marks Woodworks

There is a distinct difference here between DIY and hobbyists too though a lot of the time there is overlap. There are a lot of DIY folks who just want to do something cheaper then hiring someone so they buy or rent the tool they need at the time to do what they are doing and get it done. Hobbyists on the other hand make things because they want to and that is how they use their free time much like some people dump money into fishing gear or golf equipment, they dump their money into tools. A lot of the times DIYers become hobbyists and hobbyists take on DIY jobs around their house so overlap is there.

Wood turners seem to be a complete sub-culture of their own
-Jim

 

[Green Mojo]

I use the diy route to justify the tools. Wife gets a bid for built in bookshelves and I think...hum, I could smuggle a Kapex in on that project and still save some money.  Then, I get the motivation to do the project cause I think about how much I spent on the tool.  All of it to support my hobbyist addiction to the green tools.!