Hi everyone,
I know that good tools in the hands of a fool won't make a project come out well.
Over the last few days I've been building a set of shelves in my crawl space. It's 4 feet high in there, so it's not easy to move around. I built a frame for it with 1x2, 2x4, and 2x2 lumber, with 1/2" plywood decking. I measured carefully as I cut the various parts, notched the pieces for lap joints, and drilled the holes. Due to the size of the opening into the crawl space, it meant assembling most of it in place. I kapex, t55 saw, MFT and rails, C-15 and my new PDC18, and the carvex.
Once in the cramped space, I drilled and screwed the pieces, together. Everything fit perfectly! It was square vertically, horizontally in both directions. Though it's just a set of storage shelves, I must say, it looks like a piece of furniture. Compared to the cobbled together shelves the previous owner, the difference is even more evident.
I must say, that with a few tips from the many Festool videos, and careful measurement, it all fit. It was a joy to use these tools which made clean, smooth cuts, and drilling and screwing them together was so quick and easy using the drills. I've built things for years, but with my Festool tools, which I've gotten over the past couple of years, it is just such a pleasure to use them, and the results prove it. I feel so much more confident about my work, and where I really notice it is in the ease of measuring and setting up the tools; it's so quick. Make the mark, press a green button to slide it up to the mark and cut. Precise, smooth cuts, everytime.
There were a few expletives uttered in the space, but just because i bumped my head on a joist, but because they fit together so well, and were perfectly square, it made the whole thing more fun, than frustrating.
So I'm just saying, there is a confidence inspiring aspect to these tools. I'm having fun, lots of fun, using them and building things.
I think this confidence and enthusiasm is evident in so many videos out there as well. I work in film and tv, so I can tell a fake performance in a sec. I know that some of them are guys who are sponsored by Festool, but even the guys who go out and buy something, and then review it, or use it; these pros still give a sense that they don't just feel they're good tools, but that they really work and do what they say they can. They seem to also take some joy in using them as well, they seem to genuinely be impressed with the results, and say themselves, that they try new things, because they feel these tools help them achieve success with them.
And they like it enough to share it with us in their videos.
Just felt like sharing. [smile]
Pass the Kool-aid. [wink]
I know that good tools in the hands of a fool won't make a project come out well.
Over the last few days I've been building a set of shelves in my crawl space. It's 4 feet high in there, so it's not easy to move around. I built a frame for it with 1x2, 2x4, and 2x2 lumber, with 1/2" plywood decking. I measured carefully as I cut the various parts, notched the pieces for lap joints, and drilled the holes. Due to the size of the opening into the crawl space, it meant assembling most of it in place. I kapex, t55 saw, MFT and rails, C-15 and my new PDC18, and the carvex.
Once in the cramped space, I drilled and screwed the pieces, together. Everything fit perfectly! It was square vertically, horizontally in both directions. Though it's just a set of storage shelves, I must say, it looks like a piece of furniture. Compared to the cobbled together shelves the previous owner, the difference is even more evident.
I must say, that with a few tips from the many Festool videos, and careful measurement, it all fit. It was a joy to use these tools which made clean, smooth cuts, and drilling and screwing them together was so quick and easy using the drills. I've built things for years, but with my Festool tools, which I've gotten over the past couple of years, it is just such a pleasure to use them, and the results prove it. I feel so much more confident about my work, and where I really notice it is in the ease of measuring and setting up the tools; it's so quick. Make the mark, press a green button to slide it up to the mark and cut. Precise, smooth cuts, everytime.
There were a few expletives uttered in the space, but just because i bumped my head on a joist, but because they fit together so well, and were perfectly square, it made the whole thing more fun, than frustrating.
So I'm just saying, there is a confidence inspiring aspect to these tools. I'm having fun, lots of fun, using them and building things.
I think this confidence and enthusiasm is evident in so many videos out there as well. I work in film and tv, so I can tell a fake performance in a sec. I know that some of them are guys who are sponsored by Festool, but even the guys who go out and buy something, and then review it, or use it; these pros still give a sense that they don't just feel they're good tools, but that they really work and do what they say they can. They seem to also take some joy in using them as well, they seem to genuinely be impressed with the results, and say themselves, that they try new things, because they feel these tools help them achieve success with them.
And they like it enough to share it with us in their videos.
Just felt like sharing. [smile]
Pass the Kool-aid. [wink]
