Made a trip to meet a FOG member & a dealer!

[builderbob]

I've been talking back and forth with Sal @ The Shipstore and we've been talking about meeting sometime.  We both live about 1 1/2 hours from The Tool Nut so we decided to meet up there this past Monday.  I had a great time hanging out and chatting!  My wife isn't really into tools, so my conversations with her are one way and she just doesn't get excited like I do.  

While we were there, of course I got to meet Sean Ackerman!  Sean is a great guy & I've had some phone & email conversations with him.  I've made online purchases from all of his companies: ToolNut & FestoolProducts and SystainerWorld.  I wanted to meet him in person and peruse his store.  I have to say that their brick & mortar is a great store.  Aside from an excellent Festool display & demo setup, they have many tool choices & accessories from all of the other brands of tools!  Aside from the RO 90, one of my treasured purchases was the Micro Fence Grrripper.  This little hold down is awesome for feeding stock through a table saw, router, shaper, etc.  They had a video playing in store at the checkout area and I was immediately drawn to it.  I do want to keep my digits and this is probably one of the best $70 I've spent in a while!  If you're close enough to Tool Nut, it's definitely worth the trip!  If you're not close enough, his shipping speeds are amazingly fast and all of the guys there have great knowledge & awesome personalities as I heard them interact with their customers!

Sean & Sal spoke so highly of the RO 90 that I figured it was time for me to try it.  All I can say is that is one amazing little sander!  They were both actually surprised that I don't own any of the Rotex sanders...now I do  [tongue]

I definitely hope to have some sort of FOG meet...I love to meet people and talk shop and trade thoughts and ideas...I hope to meet some more of you soon!!!

Bob

 

[woodguy7]

Bob, you are welcome to visit me anytime  [big grin]

 

[builderbob]

I'd love to travel abroad!!!

B

 

[GPowers]

Or you can come visit the west coast?

 

[builderbob]

Or you can come visit the west coast?

Believe it or not, I've never been further west than Detroit!  I've been up & down the east coast.

I think if we do a FOG meet at a major open plain in Central North America, that would be a large enough space to house our group!

Bob

 

[rmwarren]

They had a video playing in store at the checkout area and I was immediately drawn to it.  I do want to keep my digits and this is probably one of the best $70 I've spent in a while!

Thanks for the tip, I watched the videos online and then ordered a set from Tool Nut. I have been wanting some way to control small stock at the tablesaw and router table.

 

[peter halle]

For those who are in my area, I am available to help / let test whatever I have.  Just contact me.

Peter

 

[honeydoman]

great deal, that looks like a great store.... did you see the festool ts55 video playing loop to loop at the store, with me in it of course !  ?

did you take any pictures?

 

[builderbob]

great deal, that looks like a great store.... did you see the festool ts55 video playing loop to loop at the store, with me in it of course !  ?

did you take any pictures?

Of course I saw the video with the illustrious Kreg!  I did not take photos however...I will next time...I plan on another trip soon (can you hear me Sal?????)

Bob

 

[Theshipstore]

Why  yes Ido....... [eek]

 

[Sean7a]

JUST saw this thread.  It was great to meet you Bob and Sal, what can I say about Sal, he's like the fourth Uncle removed that I wish I never had

It was fun guys, you'll have to make it back up soon.

As for the Micro Jig stuff, they have been flying off the shelves.  I believe we've only had'em for a week or two, popped the video up front, threw'em on toolnut.com as well as our amazon store and man oh man.  We keep running out, I can't keep the darn things in stock.  It's a very cool tool to say the least.