Newbie needs help with Festool jackpot

[808tradewinds]

It was Super Bowl Sunday early am when I saw the ad for "tools for sale".  At 9 am I was looking at a well equipped woodworking shop at the home of a elderly man who could no longer use his tools.  No one else had called or came by (the game) and I bought everything for 5k, including most Festools and their accessories.  As a general contractor  I was too busy building new homes to even unpack it until recently, and knew it wasn't for the monkeys I round up on the job each day.  Now I'm the monkey.  I'm impressed with Festool but am having trouble (ie slow) figuring out its many rail and table components.  Is there a user friendly "how to" guide for each and every clamp, template, stop, guide, arm, fence etc. that I have in all these boxes? Here in Honolulu we have very few opportunities to buttonhole a rep--like twice a year.  The building slowdown has me interested in learning this system.  Thanks

 

[Frank-Jan]

Here is a good place to start, John Lucas has written some very well documented articles, and is accompanied by lovely assistants.

And you can start by writing down the names on the boxes and the guides etc., and just run them one by one through the search function of this forum; I don't think you'll find anything that isn't discussed here.

 

[John Stegall]

I will second Frank Jan's suggestion and add another site:http://www.jerrywork.com/

When you get there, click on tutorials, and manuals.

John

 

[Matthew Schenker]

808tradewinds,
There are two ways to go here.  As Frank-Jan suggested, you could go one by one through each of the items you have and enter it into the forum's search function.  My guess is, you will find hits for at least most of them.  For anything where you don't see information, start a new discussion about it!  That's a great way to get more information going.

Or you could push for a full how-to on the whole series, and maybe fellow members will jump in to accomodate you!

How does that sound?

Stay in touch,
Matthew

 

[UCLA Fan]

Hey Tradewinds,

Well if you get too annoyed to deal with it all I will be glad to help you elimnate your problem. Just ship it all to Calif and for a small fee I will see if i can use any of it



Frank

 

[808tradewinds]

Thanks to all who contributed to my cry for help.  Will follow up on the links suggested and reply with any questions.  I greatly appreciate the knowledge of the forum's participants.  Mahalo