TIC Article

[tjbnwi]

An article on the training classes;

http://www.thisiscarpentry.com/2012/02/17/festool-class-follett/

Tom

 

[GPowers]

It was a great class, I was luck enough to attend the first class in the new Las Vegas location.

Thank you for sharing your experiences.

 

[ccarrolladams]

It was a great class, I was luck enough to attend the first class in the new Las Vegas location.

Thank you for sharing your experiences.

Hi Greg and Everyone,

Although I had been given a brief tour of the original Festool Training Center in Henderson, and I have visited the current site when it was a Woodworkers Emporium branch, it was a thrill to be one of G Powers' fellow-trainees in late 2010 at the opening of the new training center. Since then I have attended all of the classes. I have found them all to be outstanding.

Up to January 2011 End User classes had 8 available positions, normally organized into 4 teams of 2 in the workshop. Often back then both Steve Bace and Brian "The Sedge" Sedgeley were our co-instructors. Starting in January 2011 classes have normally been limited to 6, broken into 3 teams of 2.

Both Henderson (near Las Vegas) and Lebanon have more than enough Festools to keep 8 people busy. For example, each of the 3 work stations has a dedicated Kapex as well as 3 MFT/3, one with all the accessories. Thus we have 2 MFT/3 clear on top for breaking down sheet material, while the third is set up for cross cutting.

Especially for those of us who have been working with wood since before Festo built the first portable circular saw, having these refresher classes helps me from falling into bad habits of sloth. With virtually all tools, some ways of using them are safer, more efficient and produce better results. During these Festool classes we are free to try many approaches to see which works best for us, knowing that Steve Bace and/or Brian Sedgeley are always watching to keep us from having bloody accidents.

And, after a class in Henderson, besides buying more Festools, you will lust after a cork floor like the one Steve moved piece by piece from his old shop to the new training room. After 8 hours standing on the cork floor my legs are as fresh as when I walked into that building from Steve's van. Bummer that I cannot have cork flooring in my own shop. Flooring experts warned me that fork lift trucks would tear it up.

 

[sancho57]

I was lucky enough to be able to take the class in LV. It was a beautiful facility with all the tools one could imagine. The class was pretty much as described in the article. Steve was awesome as a instructor. He spends a lot of time explaining the process and helping folks setting up and calibrating the tools.

I was having some issues with my tools that were frutrating the hell out of me. But after the class I know now what I was not doing correctly mainly in the adjustment of my tools.

Now it can do everything I want to do with the tools quickly and accurately and repetitively.

I have signed up for another class in Apr.

Im looking fwd to it .

But beware, when ya finish the class, you'll be prone to buy more tools…..

My wallet shakes and shudders when I think about  the class.

 

[ScotF]

Thanks for posting -- I was actually in this class, LOL...it was a great time for sure and learned a lot, as usual...I think I might have been one of the guys raving about the RAS and the OF2200!

Scot