son's first Festool!

[HowardH]

My son recently turned 14 and I thought he was old enough to start helping the old man around the house with projects.  I am in the middle of a deck re-do and my old crapsman drill he was using to take out the old boards wasn't holding a charge anymore.  I was using the T-15 so he had nothing that worked.  Went out this morning and got a CSX and presented it to him as his first Festool!  I figured that was good place to start as it would be pretty hard to hurt yourself with a drill. I can't believe how light it is!  It doesn't have the power of my T-15 but it had no problem running in some GRK 3" screws.  Lemme tell you he is very proud to own a tool of such high calibre and he doesn't mind letting me use it.  ;D  I know 14 is a bit young to start someone down the slippery slope but I'm teaching him quality may cost more at the onset but for overall value, it can't be beat. 

 

[Kev]

Assuming he gets to use his old man's dust collection system ...

15 - router OF1010
16 - track saw TS55
17 - domino DF500
18 - KAPEX

... and that's just Christmas presents - think of the Birthdays  [big grin]

 

[Kev]

Forget everything I said - A RO 90 is obviously the number two Festool gift for your son - how could I have overlooked it !

My son is 17 and I've been gradually buying him tools over the last few years. I got him a rotary tool, Makita sander and a few other things that I wouldn't buy now (since my Festool addiction). I'm also passing on several lightly used Hitachi tools as I replace mine with Festool.

Miles (my son) loves hand planes ... he loves to see the shavings curl out perfectly from a well adjusted and sharp plane ... I remember that feeling from ~40 years ago !

 

[Peter Hamilton-Scott]

My son recently turned 14

What a fantastic dad he's got to get him on the road to tool Nirvana. You've utterly wrecked him now as nothing else will do. [laughing]

 

[skids]

Lucky kid!

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

I hav to start training my little girl on the tools shortly! She's 7 just after Christmas. I already bought her a tool set that's in a pink cardboard box. And she knows what all my tools do.

 

[Davej]

I hav to start training my little girl on the tools shortly! She's 7 just after Christmas. I already bought her a tool set that's in a pink cardboard box. And she knows what all my tools do.

All yyou need now is a pink tloc to put the tools in  [smile]

 

[galwaydude18@gmail.com]

Now ur talking and she could store then with all my festools then!

 

[Timtool]

Hmmm, i wonder if my girlfriend will react as good if she would unpack an EHL 65 for xmas??

 

[HowardH]

she might want to use it to give you a midnight haircut.  [eek] [eek] [eek]

 

[pghmyn]

How do you feel about adoption? I'm willing to move.

 

[Stone Message]

My son recently turned 14 and I thought he was old enough to start helping the old man around the house with projects.  I am in the middle of a deck re-do and my old crapsman drill he was using to take out the old boards wasn't holding a charge anymore.  I was using the T-15 so he had nothing that worked.  Went out this morning and got a CSX and presented it to him as his first Festool!  I figured that was good place to start as it would be pretty hard to hurt yourself with a drill. I can't believe how light it is!  It doesn't have the power of my T-15 but it had no problem running in some GRK 3" screws.  Lemme tell you he is very proud to own a tool of such high calibre and he doesn't mind letting me use it.  ;D  I know 14 is a bit young to start someone down the slippery slope but I'm teaching him quality may cost more at the onset but for overall value, it can't be beat. 

Howard

You are a really good Dad. My dear old Dad got me using tools very early on and I have benefited all of my life.

Happy Christmas

Peter

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

I bought my 7 year old and 3 year old daughters a spindle sander (3 year old loves it), a scroll saw and a small band saw.

My 7 year old has been busy making pieces of wood smaller.

 

[HowardH]

My father in law passed away a week ago at the ripe old age of 97.  We shared a love of tools and building things, something his two sons never did so we had a tight bond.  We have been going through the house getting it ready for an estate sale and we found some great old tools in the garage.  There was a t-handled one inch hand screw auger that had to be over a hundred years old.  We just got started on the garage so I'm sure we will find additional treasures.  My plan is to have some of them either framed or mounted for viewing.  So around my house it will be mix of the very old and the very new!

 

[fdengel]

it would be pretty hard to hurt yourself with a drill.

Oh?

According to a study released by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission more than 2,500 people a year receive hospital treatment for power drill injuries.

Taken from: http://www.safetyservicescompany.com/blog/drill-safety

 

[HowardH]

2500 people who have no business being around any tools.

 

[Paul Uk]

onstruction

My son is 2 and half years old and obsessed with construction equipment, he loves the CXS, I have three of them and any time I am working at home, he has to help and gets 'his' from the sortainer, he grabs it and announces to every one "my drill, Rrrrrrrrrrr" and pretends to fix everything. On the picture above you can see him with his digger, mini sortainer, festool coloured snow suit and two of my CXS drills, oops I nearly forgot the hard hat.

He's only two and a half and already on the slippery slopes of festool addiction.

I recall recently that there was a thread about fitting a CXS in a sys 2, I have squeezed two into a sortainer, check it out below. I have even manage to fit my cross laser in the corner.