4/26/15 - thread renamed to hopefully keep it better on track
I think I'm going to buy a Festool.
When you pick yourself off the floor, I can explain why.
I've been watching quite a lot of instructional videos lately, a lot of them about shop layout and kitchen cabinet making. I also won a contest recently for two mini systainers, and that got me thinking about my position about Festool and, if I'm honest, SawStop. I think getting started in this hobby with the limited funds, space and time I did, I was hostile to plunking a large amount of money down towards tools. I went cheap, and by and large (really, seriously) it has worked out extremely well. I regret very few purchases, none of them power tools.
With the purchase of my new planer I've come to respect how putting money into a more expensive tool can produce results that have better quality, better accuracy and less time. I'm all about all of those things having a limited space and limited schedule, and I'm just now understanding how investing a bit more can pay for itself over time. My parents are redoing their kitchen in the spring, and I think if I had another year or two under my belt, I could have tackled it. With the right tools.
So I'll be buying a TS55 REQ soon. How soon, I'm not sure, but I know that before I rebuild my shop storage I will have it - the new planer stand will be the last major plywood project I do without it. In the meantime, I'm going to make a auxiliary guide for my current system so that I can get closer to that accuracy and speed until it arrives.
My hope is that in a few years I'll be ready to remodel my own kitchen with my own cabinets. Now that I've turned a corner on my shop and my outlook, I'm not afraid to start sinking some major money into my work.
I think I'm going to buy a Festool.
When you pick yourself off the floor, I can explain why.
I've been watching quite a lot of instructional videos lately, a lot of them about shop layout and kitchen cabinet making. I also won a contest recently for two mini systainers, and that got me thinking about my position about Festool and, if I'm honest, SawStop. I think getting started in this hobby with the limited funds, space and time I did, I was hostile to plunking a large amount of money down towards tools. I went cheap, and by and large (really, seriously) it has worked out extremely well. I regret very few purchases, none of them power tools.
With the purchase of my new planer I've come to respect how putting money into a more expensive tool can produce results that have better quality, better accuracy and less time. I'm all about all of those things having a limited space and limited schedule, and I'm just now understanding how investing a bit more can pay for itself over time. My parents are redoing their kitchen in the spring, and I think if I had another year or two under my belt, I could have tackled it. With the right tools.
So I'll be buying a TS55 REQ soon. How soon, I'm not sure, but I know that before I rebuild my shop storage I will have it - the new planer stand will be the last major plywood project I do without it. In the meantime, I'm going to make a auxiliary guide for my current system so that I can get closer to that accuracy and speed until it arrives.
My hope is that in a few years I'll be ready to remodel my own kitchen with my own cabinets. Now that I've turned a corner on my shop and my outlook, I'm not afraid to start sinking some major money into my work.
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