OF 1010 Router is dangerous

[erikfsn]

After having some fun with my $400 router (with tax). I started perusing the Festool catalog.

I could easily spend over $2000 on accessories and I already have 3 guide rails and 2 vacuums.

Erik

 

[Notorious T.O.D.]

Not sure that I would call them "Accessories" but I can see it is pretty easy to get hooked into spending $5000 on Festools....

Best,

Notorious...

 

[bonesbr549]

After having some fun with my $400 router (with tax). I started perusing the Festool catalog.

I could easily spend over $2000 on accessories and I already have 3 guide rails and 2 vacuums.

Erik

well you could blow it on strippers, but at least you still have the router?  I just bought the 1400 yesterday and getting ready to go down to the basement and play.

 

[Tinker]

Only tools more dangerous were the ATF 55 w/guide rail and MFT and Ct 33 and>>>>>>>>>>>
Tinker

 

[Mac]

See now, I'm teetering the the verge of buying the OF 1010 (my very first Festool and first router, for that matter) and reading posts like this actually give me a feeling of creeping dread...am I doomed, if I make this one, reasonably modest little purchase..?

Mac  :-[

 

[dirtydeeds]

hook line and sinker, lost in space, gone to the devil

but you will never regret it

its designed for 8mm shank cutters so its more powerful than many 1/4 shank routers

it is also a genuine one handed router

 

[Mac]

When my wife finds out and files for divorce, I'm going to ask her to speak to you, Tom. I blame you.

 

[dirtydeeds]

i can handle the preasure

honest  :

 

[jrs]

Not sure that I would call them "Accessories" but I can see it is pretty easy to get hooked into spending $5000 on Festools....

Best,

Notorious...

If you can only get to $5k then you must not have gotten all of the way through the catalog

 

[John Langevin]

When my wife finds out and files for divorce, I'm going to ask her to speak to you, Tom. I blame you.

Get a "straw buyer" (like you used for your 'Saturday Night Special') so her divorce lawyer can't get his oily palms on it.

 

[richard.selwyn]

When my wife finds out and files for divorce, I'm going to ask her to speak to you, Tom. I blame you.

Get a "straw buyer" (like you used for your 'Saturday Night Special') so her divorce lawyer can't get his oily palms on it.

Can I get a limey translation please?

To address the thread:
The green slope is a slippery one but once you've started sliding down it, you'll wonder how you ever got by stumbling along with other stuff.

 

[elmer]

I have the same sick feeling?

Started with the TS-75 EBQ, with rails, then got the CTL 33, the OF 1010 with rail attachment and the HL-850EB plus.

I promise that after the parallel guides, systainer for OF 1010 and accessories for planer I'm going to stop buying festool stuff.

I promise!

 

[Holzhacker]

straw buyer = someone who performs on your behalf in a transaction, employing whatever deceptive or exclusionary means necessary to keep your identity and/or involvement anonymous
saturday night special = small gun often (unfortunately) used during saturday night bar brawls, usually involving many bottles of booze, a woman, lots of jealousy and boat loads of testosterone. Gun is typically very small revolver, .25 or .38 caliber (if memory serves right, technically it's a 38)