Suckered by Festool price increase
Anyone else out there been roped into buying a tool that you really don’t need and can’t really afford right now because of the impending Festool price increase? (due to the weak dollar and high cost of raw materials???). I was suckered into buying a new very expensive router! I bought the Festool OF 1400 router. I had been eyeing it when I was routing some stuff that was spewing sawdust everywhere, but did I really need a new router? No. I really need a dust collector for the new shop. I guess I’ll have to start saving again.
Oh… and I dropped by my cabinet maker friend’s shop. He said I should really get an FT Domino! It’s allowed him to join things that he couldn’t easily figure out how to do in the past. Then he pulls it out and starts making mortises with it and shows me some cool things that he can do. Maybe if my paycheck depended on making cabinetry and furniture I could justify it, but as it stands making stuff is dependent on the paycheck of my day job! Also, since its a hobby of mine, I figured that making real mortise and tenon joints is the way to go. A non-thru tenon may not look any different than a joint with an FT Domino, but I’d know the difference!
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Enjoy the 1400. You will have a much cleaner shop.
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
I have the domino & CT33e vac and love it. I got if for a current project for the wife and the project has a huge amount of M&T. The ease of use and speed is unreal. I'm sure the purests will disagree and everyone should do what works for them, but after you've used it for a while you'll see. Be carefull though, festool usage is like a drug you get a little experience with the quality of the tools and you want more. it's a slippery slope like LN planes. (I WANT MY KAPEX)
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
hi bones,wow, do you have that right. i've got a half-dozen LN planes and a similar number of festools. some might think such a purchase is crazy, but i think high quality, good tools help me to do better work, and more quickly. and isn't that really what it's all about?(i want a kapex too, but that's gonna have to wait a while...)
cheers,
bert
if it's worth doing at all, then it's worth doing well.
Wow,
So much for the theory that a recession is near!
Enjoy.
JimI know less than half of you, half as much as I should Like;
I like less than have of you, half as much as you deserve.
I concur! I'm at three Festools (four if you count the MFT1080 or five if you count the Systainer full of McFeely's square drive screws) and three LN planes. I really wanted to get an FT Midi or CT22 too. I have an old Fein Turbo mini that doesn't have the automatic outlet. I just couldn't get myself to spend the money.
It worked for SWMBO! All I had to do was show her how much I'd save on a new sander CT 22 combo and she said OK.
hi jointerman,
me too. i picked up the little router and big shopvac package (of-1010+ct-33). was tired of using sometimes ill-fitting adapters between my other festools and fein shopvac. besides, i needed another shopvac anyway. :-)
i've thought about the domino tool, but i have the mortising table for my felder combi, and can very easily make loose-tenon based joinery that way. i do think i need to buy more dominos though. hmm, i wonder how many people are buying the dominos, but don't own the tool...
cheers,
bert
I know one thing for sure-and that is, there are a hell of a lot more tool buyers than there are woodworkers. Thousands of dollars in tools, and the production is birdhouses.
Now that sounds rather defensive. I don't understand the reason for your anger.Cheers,Peter
Better life through Zoodles and poutine...
Peter,
I love bird houses! birds too~!
Best,
JimI know less than half of you, half as much as I should Like;
I like less than have of you, half as much as you deserve.
Funny you mention that. A couple of years back, I really wanted a jointer. I ended up with a Delta DJ-20. When I got it, I really didn't have any projects to do, nor the money to buy lumber. So what did I make, I made a hand plane out of Cocobolo! That's pretty close to making a birdhouse!My neighbor owns about 1/2 a dozen Lie-Nelson hand-planes, but when he needs to use one, he chooses to use his Stanley's cause he doesn't want to ruin his nice planes!I often think that I only do woodworking because I'm enamored by cool powerful tools!
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