What kind of Festooligan are you? an open question

[Chris Hughes]

  Okay, we have established that many of the FOG members are working in the field, and I assume that there are even more shop based personnel as well as hobbyist.  What kind of festooligan are you?  Chris

 

[festeringtool]

I'm a festering festooligan......

I can't quite make up my mind between a domino or a haircut..........

 

[chrisrosenb]

I guess I would fall into all 3 catagories. I do remodeling, I make items for jobs in my shop & also like doing woodworking in my spare time.

 

[nickao]

100% shop/home-hobby use. Recently replaced the entire shop with all the Festools I thought were better than what I had. Which was quite a bit of machinery.

I am a Festooligan that uses the tools for my main income and as a hobby. The hobby part is working on my own home(cabinets/trim/flooring). Finally, I can make my own house as nice as all the homes I have worked on over the years.

For me better mainly has to do with speed and accuracy. Anything that make things happen faster while keeping the accuracy of my old tools and techniques. I will know more in the next few months as I develop new procedures/techniques to make my projects using the Festool system.

I went from just using the Festool sanders, to switching to the mft tables , saws/guides, dust collectors/booms and routers very recently.

I never considered my self a "Festooligan" when I just used the sanders, now I guess I qualify.

Nickao

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Ahem..http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=402.0

 

[Markus K.]

Hi Folks...

well, my Job is fixing/ maintenance of Air Condition, Freezers and Refrigerators, Ventilation Systems...Big Stuff!
So woodworking is just a real big Hobby for me, and for this I spend my money. Mostly I work in my shop, but sometimes I take my (Fes)tools out of my shop, doing Favors to Friends!

Markus

 

[Chris Hughes]

    I'm with Chris Rosenberger.  I work all three.  I work primarily in the field as a trim carpenter but I also do some shop fabbed casework and I love woodworking so when my wife and kids let me I go back to the shop.  Chris

 

[Steve Jones]

Guys,

Matthew's "ahem" earlier was gently trying to draw your attention to the fact that there is in fact an official thread for this very discussion - it's even got a survey at the begining of the thread..

Now go stand in the corner for a little "time out" until you've learned the error of your ways and then try in future to post in the right place.

Just because I drop thoughts wherever they occur doesn't mean everyone should, This place would be a shambles and we'd never find anything. My excuse is oldtimers disease - if I tried to find right place to follow a topic I'd have forgotten my point by then!

 

[nickao]

I got the Ahem and went and answered the survey, but that thread rambled away quite a bit.

A lot of that thread was discussion on the merits of the survey, questions on why the survey is the way it is, on lathes and misc. It kind of veered even more so then most threads. This Thread seemed to stay on topic a little better. I think most survey threads  have that potential to veer off.

I thought Mathew would just move this thread over if he wanted it specifically there, which is fine by me.

nickao

 

[Fred West]

Ahem this!!!!! ;D, Anyway, I build fine furniture, built-ins, wainscoting, crown molding, etc. as a pro? and for myself.  Use the festools because they are fine tools that save me time, make me look cool and cost a lot.  Seriously the best tools I have ever used not counting some of my big iron like the Mini-Max, etc. Fred

 

[semenza]

Hi,

    I build pretty much whatever a customer wants. Almost always one  (or several) of a kind custom orders.  Mostly towards the furniture side of things, some of it rather specialised stuff.  Also smaller items like wood trays.  Woodworking is my business but I build for myself as well of course.

Seth

 

[semenza]

Hi,

      I thought that other thread " Describe Yourself as  Woodworker"   was some kind of weird personal add thingy    :-*

Seth

 

[clintholeman]

I build pretty much custom furniture - some cabinets.  My job is to build what my customer wants.  Pretty simple.  I like the KISS program in life  ;D.