The Complete "Jointmaker Pro" Review..... A Paradigm Shift in Woodworking

[monte]

    

"This space is being reserved for possible future additions"

 

[Frank Pellow]

Interesting!  I look forward to receiving more information.  You must anticipate that there will be a great deal of information based on all the spacve that you have reserved.  ;D

 

[Dave Rudy]

Interesting!  I lookl forward to receiving more information. 

Likewise.

 

[monte]

Interesting!  I look forward to receiving more information.  You must anticipate that there will be a great deal of information based on all the spaces that you have reserved.  ;D

Frank,

I have a wealth of photos of the assembly process, different fixturing and stages of work during those two intense days.

Once all the chapters are written I think it would be nice to see it in one flow with ease, especially regarding new
members who first need to navigate thru the tread.

So first there would be all the information with a discussion to follow both during and
after the process of putting out the chapters I referred to above.

So I did what they do in LA when they have events, they tape off parking spaces!

Except here I'll need to park photo files (and print).

Roger

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Roger,
It looks like you're building an exciting presentation here!  This is going to be good.  And you found an interesting way to reserve "parking space" for your discussion!  Just let me know if you eventually want all those different posts merged into one.

In honor of your effort, I have just added a new "Message icon" to the drop-down list that members can use to signify when their discussion is under construction!

It is called, appropriately enough, "Under Construction" and looks like this ... [attachimg=1]

So, Roger, if you want you can go back and edit your posts to use this message icon to make it clear this is a work in progress!

Keep up the good work, and let us know how it's going.

Thanks,
Matthew

 

[monte]

Matthew,

Thank you for the symbol, that was a nice touch.

Roger

 

[tallgrass]

ok roger................ i am watching with my critical eye ;D......lets see it.

 

[Ron Dunn]

You're writing a review, not a book. Forget the fancy layout, just get on with it.

 

[Michael Kellough]

You're writing a review, not a book. Forget the fancy layout, just get on with it.

But don't leave anything out 

 

[Frank Pellow]

You're writing a review, not a book. Forget the fancy layout, just get on with it.

Don't be so impatient Ron.  ;D  By the way, I see that this is your forst post, so let be the first to welcome you to the Festool Owner's Group forum.

Roger, I appreciate your doing this and I encourage you to take all the time that you think is necessary.

 

[SteveD]

I would like to say that I REALLY like the way this is being shown. There is nothing like putting the thing together from a kit of pieces to learn how it works and to be able to align/realign it later. You can also see the quality of each piece.
Looks like this probably doesn't need a UL label- just another wallet health warning!
SteveD

 

[tallgrass]

i am waiting ;D ;D ;D ;D i have not seen you for coffee in a while roger..... ???

 

[Michael Kellough]

You're off to a nice start Roger 

 

[Frank Pellow]

...
Comments; although this process was not overly difficult, I think you should plan on four hours for assembly and calibration.  I asked about providing an "assembly service" and apparently the girth of the machine (packaged) combined with the weight makes for an expensive delivery.  The idea was not ruled out but it will obviously add to the cost and may be appreciated by some.[/size]

Having seen what you went through, I would strongly advise them to consider this option.  At over $1,000 this thing is quite pricey and many folks who willing and able to shell out that much on a tool that is so unorthodox will not want to undertake so much assembly.

I myself would probably enjoy assembling the tool but I have fond memories of my Heathkit stereo building days.

 

[monte]

...
Comments; although this process was not overly difficult, I think you should plan on four hours for assembly and calibration.  I asked about providing an "assembly service" and apparently the girth of the machine (packaged) combined with the weight makes for an expensive delivery.  The idea was not ruled out but it will obviously add to the cost and may be appreciated by some.[/size]

Having seen what you went through, I would strongly advise them to consider this option.  At over $1,000 this thing is quite pricey and many folks who willing and able to shell out that much on a tool that is so unorthodox will not want to undertake so much assembly.

I myself would probably enjoy assembling the tool but I have fond memories of my Heathkit stereo building days.

Frank,

For the person that doesn't have the mindset to sit down with the instruction sheet to prevent the flashing time display on the VCR, I could well see an alternative for setting up the Jointmaster Pro. The assembly process is also a couple of steps forward from putting together something from Ikea, but not out of reach. I'm sure if there was an on-line tutorial when you were building your Heathkit stereo it would have been a lot easier; and I look forward to viewing the detailed video file of the assembly process from Bridge City. This would probably help in the decision making process of someone unsure if they have the dexterity or patience of putting this together, beyond this review.

By the way, I know for a fact that John has made a lot of effort to keep the costs down. Latter on in my review, when I will discuss the Value Thoughts on Engineering and Craftsmanship I will give some space as to what I was told goes into fabricating such a tool. I will also go down memory lane and talk about the earlier prototype of the Jointmaker Pro that would have cost a quite a bit more had he pursued it.

......and thank you for your earlier encouragement..

Michael,

Thanx, and for the record as I have been putting together this review it has taken a life of it's own from what I had imagined I would have put together a couple of weeks ago. My hope is to have it complete by the end of next week.

Roger

 

[John Stevens]

and for the record as I have been putting together this review it has taken a life of it's own from what I had imagined I would have put together a couple of weeks ago. My hope is to have it complete by the end of next week.

Roger, I realize that the hours spent on this are hours you could be working on projects for paying clients.  John E is getting a good deal...I hope it will have been worth it for you, too.  Many thanks for your time and effort.

Regards,

John

 

[jonny round boy]

Roger,

Nice work so far, but I do have one complaint comment - why the huge text size? I'm finding it VERY hard to read....

I look forward to reading more (hopefully smaller!) soon.

JRB

 

[butzla]

I second John Stevens AND Jonny Round Boy's comments.  Great work but probably under appreciated work and a lot of scrolliing required due to the large text size.

 

[Frank Pellow]

That's better Roger -but you could make it even one size smaller and then your material would be the same size as most posts here (such as this one).

 

[monte]

[size=11pt]Frank

I took your suggestion and took it down one more notch from this to this one, and I also reduced some of the lateral negative white space. Any more than that and the aesthetics of the print to photo ratio will be too crunched up.

Roger[/size]