HarveyWildes
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- Joined
- May 3, 2016
- Messages
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I started watching FOG this year after I got a Domino. The Domino was a game changer, and I wanted to hear more about what other people were doing and also curious about other Festool tools.
In the future, I want to hear stuff that will make me a better, more efficient, better quality woodworker:
(1) Projects, with info on how it was done, and particularly how challenging problems were solved.
(2) Questions about Festool (or other) tools where the answers have some practical value to me.
(3) Tips on using tools effectively. Any tools, though I expect the focus to be on Festool.
(4) Tool reviews with a focus on how particular tools help to solve those problems. I expect reviews to steer me away from tools that will not be helpful.
(5) I love the shop organization stuff - how people build sys-racks, MFT tops, etc. etc. I currently have a backlog of that kind of stuff on my project list because of this forum.
(6) Discussion of events. I learned about the local Festool truck event via this forum, and the hands on experience I got at the event was very helpful in choosing a Festool sander and vacuum. And I did finally get a PRO 5 sander which is behaving very nicely for me.
(7) I don't mind civil controversy or disagreement if the focus is on the above. Creative people working on creative problems are going to favor different solutions, with a lot of factors coming into play - type of project, available tools, economics, and all kinds of other things. Often it's hearing the discussion about why people make the decisions they do that is most informative. For example, if person A loves a track saw because they can use it effectively on site while doing remodels, I might admire their use of the saw, but not feel like it would help me much in my shop. If person B describes how to use a track saw effectively in their shop to solve a problem that I've had in the past, I might be tempted. But it's not like either one has the final say on using track saws.
So for those of you with more experience than I have, thanks for the contributions and discussions, and keep it coming. (And almost everyone has more experience than I have in some area or another.)
And I hope that at least some of my posts are interesting to enough people to justify the time and effort.
In the future, I want to hear stuff that will make me a better, more efficient, better quality woodworker:
(1) Projects, with info on how it was done, and particularly how challenging problems were solved.
(2) Questions about Festool (or other) tools where the answers have some practical value to me.
(3) Tips on using tools effectively. Any tools, though I expect the focus to be on Festool.
(4) Tool reviews with a focus on how particular tools help to solve those problems. I expect reviews to steer me away from tools that will not be helpful.
(5) I love the shop organization stuff - how people build sys-racks, MFT tops, etc. etc. I currently have a backlog of that kind of stuff on my project list because of this forum.
(6) Discussion of events. I learned about the local Festool truck event via this forum, and the hands on experience I got at the event was very helpful in choosing a Festool sander and vacuum. And I did finally get a PRO 5 sander which is behaving very nicely for me.
(7) I don't mind civil controversy or disagreement if the focus is on the above. Creative people working on creative problems are going to favor different solutions, with a lot of factors coming into play - type of project, available tools, economics, and all kinds of other things. Often it's hearing the discussion about why people make the decisions they do that is most informative. For example, if person A loves a track saw because they can use it effectively on site while doing remodels, I might admire their use of the saw, but not feel like it would help me much in my shop. If person B describes how to use a track saw effectively in their shop to solve a problem that I've had in the past, I might be tempted. But it's not like either one has the final say on using track saws.
So for those of you with more experience than I have, thanks for the contributions and discussions, and keep it coming. (And almost everyone has more experience than I have in some area or another.)
And I hope that at least some of my posts are interesting to enough people to justify the time and effort.