I just joined the Festool family with a TS 55 and an RO 90. I don't have any regrets with either other than I can't believe I waited this long, although I shouldn't complain, I'm only 19. The guy who sold them to me seemed a bit jealous of me when I walked out of the store. I used the TS for the first time today and it was awesome, way better than my table saw for dealing with sheet goods. And the RO 90 out performs my PC 5" random orbit. I can't wait to add to my collection.
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Welcome to the FOG.
you are a bit young to get hooked on green cool- aid though [big grin]
you are a bit young to get hooked on green cool- aid though [big grin]
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welcome,you will find a lot of fellow braggarts on this part of the forum.
Hi Devon,
Welcome to the FOG! [smile]
Did you get one of the vacs too?
Seth
Welcome to the FOG! [smile]
Did you get one of the vacs too?
Seth
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My son is 17. Yesterday I had him screwing some truss brace plates with a big old 18 volt Hitachi Nimh driver (about 40 plates with 8 screws in each). With only a couple to go the battery drained. I could have given him the spare - but instead I let him try the Ti15.
It was a real Kodak moment ... with a probable caption competition to follow ! [big grin]
Anyway - he'll no doubt aim for quality tools as he progresses.
Congrats Devon - looking forward to you teaching the old dogs some tricks [wink]
It was a real Kodak moment ... with a probable caption competition to follow ! [big grin]
Anyway - he'll no doubt aim for quality tools as he progresses.
Congrats Devon - looking forward to you teaching the old dogs some tricks [wink]
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Welcome Devon! Not many of us youngsters here on FOG!
Im afraid your going to have to make another costly spend on the Green stuff straight away (unless your using a Vac already)! If not then even though your saying you like the RO90 im afraid the RO90 doesnt work very well with out a Vac attached to it or should I say works 10x better with a vac attached to it making you love it even more!
The TS55 can be used with out a VAC but again you will prefer it with a Vac cus your not cleaning your rail of all the time when it gets covered in dust for your next cut as the dust build up stops your saw from gliding! Also you dont need to keep blowing the dust of the top of the sheet before you place the rail back down again when doing another cut cus the dust stops the rail from sticking to the board.
JMB
Im afraid your going to have to make another costly spend on the Green stuff straight away (unless your using a Vac already)! If not then even though your saying you like the RO90 im afraid the RO90 doesnt work very well with out a Vac attached to it or should I say works 10x better with a vac attached to it making you love it even more!
The TS55 can be used with out a VAC but again you will prefer it with a Vac cus your not cleaning your rail of all the time when it gets covered in dust for your next cut as the dust build up stops your saw from gliding! Also you dont need to keep blowing the dust of the top of the sheet before you place the rail back down again when doing another cut cus the dust stops the rail from sticking to the board.
JMB
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In the past and currently apprentices get told (well I did) to use handsaws and hand planes when they are learning on certain jobs instead of using power tools.
Well in the future it will be apprentices have to use a regular circular saw and power plane and then they can use a plunge track saw so you can appreciate a tool which can give you a clean and prefect cut in one go.
JMB
Well in the future it will be apprentices have to use a regular circular saw and power plane and then they can use a plunge track saw so you can appreciate a tool which can give you a clean and prefect cut in one go.
JMB
I did also get a CT 26, It was hard to justify a $500 shop vac but now I understand why. I used it to vacuum my car this weekend and I was really impressed as I did a side by with a standard 6.5 HP Shop Vac. The CT was much more efficient and quieter. Now that I have the main component to the Festool tools, I don't know what to add next. As a cabinet maker I'm thinking about the MFT3 but the domino seems like that would be sweet too. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Devon
Thanks
Devon
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DevonC said:
Devon - welcome. Since you are new and young, will give you a little slack on this one but general practice is to prove such an awesome purchase by providing pictures. Preferably with tools in use by the owner [big grin].
Good luck - I have two sons about your age. One like to mess around with wood like me and the other is into cars.
Mike
MFT or Domino? Thats a tough one. If you have an adequate bench to work on and something to do your cutting on. I'd go Domino next.
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Noah said:
Welcome Noah - Noah eh? Very appropriate for the weather we've been having.
How are you finding the VS600?
There's a couple of Festools I'm having "trigger trouble" with. One is the VS600 ... the other Precisio.
I've been waiting for my local Festool guy to be in a position to demo the VS600 to me.
(the Precisio question is more a CMS? Precisio? Table Saw? kinda thing)
I'd be wanting to create exposed decorative dovetails as well as the hidden functional variety and I'm not convinced the VS600 is useful for anything but the latter.
Comments appreciated.
Kev.
personally, I would like to see a subsidy for tool purchases by our 'under 25' professional users.
glad to see both the OP and Noah getting off to the right start... to the OP, I would recommend an MFT/3 and a OF1400 next, THEN the Dominos, and yeah, you're going to want BOTH Domino's, unless you're focusing on a very specialized product.
I've been using the XL700 for a few weeks now, and if I had to pick one or the other, I'd definitely keep the 700 over it's little brother, but I couldn't afford to be without either, now that I am used to using them
glad to see both the OP and Noah getting off to the right start... to the OP, I would recommend an MFT/3 and a OF1400 next, THEN the Dominos, and yeah, you're going to want BOTH Domino's, unless you're focusing on a very specialized product.
I've been using the XL700 for a few weeks now, and if I had to pick one or the other, I'd definitely keep the 700 over it's little brother, but I couldn't afford to be without either, now that I am used to using them
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