UK Festool Photo Competition

[Forrest Anderson]

For those in the UK, Festool UK has started a new competition athttp://www.festool.co.uk/photogallery/

Your image
Take a photograph of your workpiece made with Festool tools and add it to our photo competition gallery! Click on the menu item participation to enter.
Please enter a short description about which Festool tools have been used to build your workpiece. What were the benefits of using Festool tools for this particular job?

Prizes
Great prizes are waiting for you!

1. Prize: KAPEX KS 120
A sliding compound mitre saw that merits the Festool brand name.
 
2. Prize: C12 CE-MH45-Set 
More lightweight, sturdy and durable. 
   
3. Prize: ROTEX RO 150 FEQ-Plus 
Raising the standards even higher. 
   
4.-10. Prize: Festool autoloader 
A gadget from Festool   
   
1.-20. Prize: Festool golf cap
Your own Festool cap

Jury
An independent jury will select the winner. After the deadline the winner will be published on our website.
The jury includes four well experienced Festool employees.

Deadline
30th November 2007 

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Forrest,
This is great!  As you know, I'm big on contests that inspire Festool owners to do great work and share it with others.

As someone who has learned the complexities of modern on-line contests, I think the people running this UK contest are making a couple of mistakes:
1. They do not specify any rules.
2. They do not specify location limitations.  What will they do if an American or Canadian wins?
3. They do not clearly define what "made with Festool tools" means.  If I build a table and just use a Rotex to finish it, does that count?  What if a person wins after only using some Festool tools, but others lose even though they used all Festool tools for their projects?

But the point is to insipre!

If the winner happens to be a member of this forum, and if the winning photo appears in this forum, I hope that is noted somewhere in the contest.  If the winner or the winning photo are not already part of this forum, they should be!

Thanks for letting us know about this.

Matthew

 

[woodshopdemos]

Per, you and Bob could run away with first prize. I see a Kapex in your truck soon.

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Per, you and Bob could run away with first prize. I see a Kapex in your truck soon.

That would be very interesting!

 

[Ned]

4.-10. Prize: Festool autoloader 

Festool makes handguns?  Cool!  ;D

Ned

 

[Per Swenson]

Thanks John,

Just a hunch, but I think we would have to put that Kapex on our lorry.

Betcha this is only open to her Majesty's subjects.

I know, nothing ventured, nothing gained....but we have till Nov.

to get all the details.

Besides there is this Bloke in Australia made a fine chair...... ;D

Per

 

[Matthew Schenker]

4.-10. Prize: Festool autoloader  

Festool makes handguns?  Cool!  ;D

Ned

And are the golf caps UL approved (in case an American gets 5th place)?

Matthew

 

[Forrest Anderson]

This is great!  As you know, I'm big on contests that inspire Festool owners to do great work and share it with others.

As someone who has learned the complexities of modern on-line contests, I think the people running this UK contest are making a couple of mistakes:
1. They do not specify any rules.
2. They do not specify location limitations.  What will they do if an American or Canadian wins?
3. They do not clearly define what "made with Festool tools" means.  If I build a table and just use a Rotex to finish it, does that count?  What if a person wins after only using some Festool tools, but others lose even though they used all Festool tools for their projects?

All good questions!

Perhaps Rule No 1 is that there are no rules 

Actually, a few rules do come to light if you go through the upload process (I don't have any photos to enter, but thought I'd check out the process anyway:

We still don't know the answer to your second and third questions though.

Forrest

 

[jonny round boy]

Has anyone else entered this competition?

When I read about it, I stuck a couple of crappy photos up simply because I noticed there were 20 prizes up for grabs, and at the time there were only 6 entries. I could have stuck up a picture of my cat & still won something!

Just checked again, and there's currently 19 entries, so I'm still in with a shot. If anyone else enters, I will have to make a bit more of an effort to make & photograph something half-decent!

 

[Forrest Anderson]

The results are now out - seehttp://www.festool.co.uk/artikel/artikel_weiterleiten.cfm?id=606

Probably of more interest is the 7-page gallery of submissions, which include comments by the exhibitors about their entries.

Forrest