I just wanted to drop a quick hello out to the members here. Last weekend I bought my first Festools. The CT Mini and OF-1010 combo.
I was at Woodcraft and they were having a Festool day. I had been waffling on the 1010 for a while now as I don't like the plunge on my Freud and usually just keep it in the table but it was tough to justify the expense of the 1010 over say a Bosch. So anyway I was watching the guy doing demos and asked if I could see the 1010 in action. He set it up with a 1/4" round over bit and free hand routed all the way around a piece! When I say freehand, I mean he held the piece in one hand and the router in the other and it took him about 20 seconds to round over a piece 18" x 6" all the way around and the vac caught about 70% of the dust which was pretty impressive. Then he took a longer piece of walnut that was about 3' and clamped that in place and put the dust catcher on. It was able to catch somewhere around 85 - 90 % off the dust. Then he let me give it a go. Wow! I've never felt a router this comfortable or as friendly to work with and the dust collection is just stellar.
See, I just got done a few weeks before making a bunch of drawers for my kitchen using the PC dovetail jig and my Freud router. I had to do them in the driveway and wear basically full "armor" while using it (breather, goggles, gloves, apron, etc) and was covered with sawdust when I was done and of course wind blew a lot into the garage anyway so I spent the next few days cleaning up. She said I was dragging sawdust around every time I came in too. She said anything that helped stop that was worth it...
But even still I was waffling on the price when my wife just said to the demo guy, "put it on the counter, we'll take it." Who am I to argue
They didn't have the CT mini in stock so they ordered one for me and gave me the demo to take home so I could test it out and see if I liked it. That was awesome to me. Never had that happen before.
I was away on business this week so I'm hoping to get some play time in the next few days to see how I like my purchase. I'm contemplating getting the CT Midi rather then the Mini now that I am thinking about it but I need to route some stuff and see how full the bag gets. I don't want to be changing bags daily because they are pricey too but I like the size of the Mini. I've got a few more weeks on my 30 day return policy so I'll play a bit and see how it goes.
So like I said, resistance was futile [big grin]
Let the assimilation begin...
-Jim
I was at Woodcraft and they were having a Festool day. I had been waffling on the 1010 for a while now as I don't like the plunge on my Freud and usually just keep it in the table but it was tough to justify the expense of the 1010 over say a Bosch. So anyway I was watching the guy doing demos and asked if I could see the 1010 in action. He set it up with a 1/4" round over bit and free hand routed all the way around a piece! When I say freehand, I mean he held the piece in one hand and the router in the other and it took him about 20 seconds to round over a piece 18" x 6" all the way around and the vac caught about 70% of the dust which was pretty impressive. Then he took a longer piece of walnut that was about 3' and clamped that in place and put the dust catcher on. It was able to catch somewhere around 85 - 90 % off the dust. Then he let me give it a go. Wow! I've never felt a router this comfortable or as friendly to work with and the dust collection is just stellar.
See, I just got done a few weeks before making a bunch of drawers for my kitchen using the PC dovetail jig and my Freud router. I had to do them in the driveway and wear basically full "armor" while using it (breather, goggles, gloves, apron, etc) and was covered with sawdust when I was done and of course wind blew a lot into the garage anyway so I spent the next few days cleaning up. She said I was dragging sawdust around every time I came in too. She said anything that helped stop that was worth it...
But even still I was waffling on the price when my wife just said to the demo guy, "put it on the counter, we'll take it." Who am I to argue
They didn't have the CT mini in stock so they ordered one for me and gave me the demo to take home so I could test it out and see if I liked it. That was awesome to me. Never had that happen before.
I was away on business this week so I'm hoping to get some play time in the next few days to see how I like my purchase. I'm contemplating getting the CT Midi rather then the Mini now that I am thinking about it but I need to route some stuff and see how full the bag gets. I don't want to be changing bags daily because they are pricey too but I like the size of the Mini. I've got a few more weeks on my 30 day return policy so I'll play a bit and see how it goes.
So like I said, resistance was futile [big grin]
Let the assimilation begin...
-Jim
