TS75 - ??? DISCONTINUED ???

[AlexThePalex]

When I got my CS70 around 10 years ago, I bought a bag of splinter guards for it. I still have 11 or 12 of the 15 that were in it.

I only used the splinter guard extensively once, when I had to make a large cabinet with melamine board, but to be honest, I didn't see much improvement over the cut without the splinter guard. Most important for cut quality was the very sharp special laminate blade.

You can only use the splinter guard when you cut straight at a 90 degree angle. So everytime I had to cut under another angle I had to remove the splinter guard, which was irritating. I solved my irritation by never using the splinter guard again.

 

[Lysdexia]

Don’t consider this as official, but I spoke to Festool Australia today enquiring when they would get stock of the TS75 in, and was told it’s been discontinued as of two weeks ago. I was able to find stock at a store interstate and getting one of the last ones in the country sent to me.

There’s no replacement model that they’ve been told about.

 

[LooseSox]

The TS 75 is not permanently discontinued, just temporarily. Festool is having a difficult time with social distancing issues in the factory amid Covid restrictions in Europe. This combined with a massive surge in tool sales (everyone spending money on their house as overseas travel has just about stopped completely) has left Festool to make the decision to temporarily stop production on lower selling tools to keep up with production on more popular items. The TS 75 is due back into Australia next year at some stage.

 

[PaulMarcel]

Well, I'm late, but someone posted on Reddit yesterday that US Tool & Fastener had received a shipment of TS-75s. Sold out in one day. So they are showing up slowly. If manufacturing was paused, then these must be off slow-boats.

 

[Lysdexia]

The language used by Festool Australia was specifically “discontinued” and as stock won’t be reaching the country for 6 months or more, it’s as good as discontinued I guess. Either way, I got mine as it were so I’m not bitter, only sharing the conversation I had.

 

[Paul_HKI]

The language used by Festool Australia was specifically “discontinued” and as stock won’t be reaching the country for 6 months or more, it’s as good as discontinued I guess. Either way, I got mine as it were so I’m not bitter, only sharing the conversation I had.

I've asked at Festool here and was told it's not discontinued, just not in production at the moment.  To my understanding, the production lines for some machines are being moved from one European site to another at the moment, which further complicates things regarding utilisation/uptime of machinery, materials and supply chain logistics (which has its own major challenges due to Covid etc) and naturally their ability to pump out whatever the Festool userbase might be waiting for.  Give it some time and it'll improve.  The word was, end of the year, but don't be surprised if it's early next year for TS75's to reappear in any sort of quantity, at least in Europe.

Which 'counter chat' holds up?  We'll just have to wait and see I suppose.

 

[Coen]

The language used by Festool Australia was specifically “discontinued” and as stock won’t be reaching the country for 6 months or more, it’s as good as discontinued I guess. Either way, I got mine as it were so I’m not bitter, only sharing the conversation I had.

TS75's aren't sold to prisons  [wink]

 

[pacificdune]

Hi everyone,

Contemplating new tool purchase.
Was thinking about getting a TS75 but the saw has "magically disappeared" on both the dutch .nl site and the international .com site.
Is there going to be a new generation of TS75 (TS80/85/?) using new 1.8 mm cutting blades (similar to the new TS55-FEBQ) in the (near) future?
The TS75 is still being sold but I'd rather wait for a "decisively improved" version.

Any advice / info is appreciated,
Thanks in advance.

I can confirm that Rockler has limited supply now.  I just received the tracking number on my order.