Name that tool

[Bob Swenson]

What's the name of your Festool

I don't know if you have a problem with all the designations that Festool uses but it is for me.
I have solved this by personalizing and renaming the tools.

We have a lot of routers that we use for different tasks, making it a big problem for me when I go looking for one.

Goes like this------
Hey Per, where's the router?.
You know, that little one.
How little? 
You know that 10 something, thing.
You mean the OF 1010 EQ
Yes S---A---

So I changed the name to Robin, Robin the Router, such a nice name for an ever so sexy tool.

Hunter, where is Robin?
My father took her out to a bar to fix something.
You sure he is fixing something.

OK. Where is Ralph. (OF 1400 EQ)
I think he fell off the M---F---T and hurt himself.
Hunter, watch your language.
I sent him to DR. Festool.
Has he called?
Who, Ralph.
No, Dr. Festool

Well I guess I will have to just use Old Brutus (OF 2200 EB) even if it's over kill.

Can you see how much easier it is without all those numbers that I can't remember anyway.

Then there is Pixie and ---------------

Bob .  :

 

[Frank Pellow]

That's good Bob!

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[richard.selwyn]

Thank you Mr Swenson senior for bringing a smile to my day.  In my old job (before I became a wood butcher) I used to get to try to name things.  I don't know why companies come up with such names.  I think I remember a question on this forum about the name Cristal and Kapex.  I agree that its hard to keep track of all the stupid names companies come up with.  Financial institutions were always good at changing names (to protect the guilty as my father used to say) Here, Credit Lyonnais, which lost millions of tax payers' money before it was ever fashionable is now called LCL - a smart move.  The Compagnie Generale des Eaux - the water company that I always called Compagnie Generale des Voleurs (robbers) - is now called Veolia.

But I cheer myself up with thoughts of a brand of Spanish bread which used to be called Bimbo and instant coffee which was called Bonka.

 

[woodshopdemos]

Bob,
   I follow your logic, however narrow...so why did you name your son  Pur, Pere, Pier  or Pear or whatever? He could have been a router.

 

[mwhafner]

Bob,
  I follow your logic, however narrow...so why did you name your son  Pur, Pere, Pier  or Pear or whatever? He could have been a router.

John,

I think that would destroy the nomenclature.  Per would have to be a tool staring with "P", like a pipe wrench or pliers.

 

[Per Swenson]

You  know,
All my dang life, I have tried to explain my name.
Go ahead , try that chit on tenth and fifty first.
So lets get this straight.
My name is Per.
Pronounced Pear.
Its Norwegian.
It translates in many languages to Faddah.
That would be father for y'all
Who has trouble with the vernacular?

Per

 

[Bob Swenson]

Frank,---- thanks
No John, he could have been a putter
Rutabagared, not unless she is from outer space.
mwhafner, see above.
Richard. It is amazing how companies that for all their expertise are so stupid.
Take the shampoo people. They put things on the bottle like New and improved with lemon essence
in bold type but print the word shampoo in small type so that we who can't read with out our glasses wash our hair
with the conditioner.  And they get the big bucks.
Name your tool------- I Think Peter is taken.
Bob  :

Oh, Per means Peter in Norwegian  ;D 

 

[Bob Swenson]

Richard, I forgot

Big blind blond bimbo shampoos her ----- You fill in the blanks  ;D

 

[meldgaard]

What's the name of your Festool

My first orbital sander were called 'the twister' - it could both dance and sing. The replacement Feestool RS3 I bought back in 1997 was extremely silent and all smooth sailing. And like my dog it wouldnt come when called at so I decided not to give it a new name. My OF900 are some times named Ol' Tiptoe though ...

/bjoern

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Bob,
Sorry I didn't have a chance to respond sooner.  But you can guess how happy I was to see you back here, adding your good humor and wit to the FOG!  This is what it's all about.  Things are rough out there these days.  We need to connect.

Now that you and Per are both back, no telling where we will go next -- with woodworking and whatever else.  But I know our adventures will be more fun now.

Stay in touch,
Matthew

 

[Bob Swenson]

Susy----- I forgot to tell you about Susy
you would think that Susy was the name of a saw
( If you saw Susy like I saw Susy, OH, OH what a saw.)
but she is not.

Susy is the shop Stuart and a fine watch dog. She watches every thing.
She watches people come and watches them go and wags her tail at all of them.[attachimg=#] 

 

[Bob Marino]

Hi Bob,

Glad to see you back here...along with your kid.

Bob