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Core77 Visits Festool, Part 8: The Wrap-Up
Nice article. I enjoyed the read. I sold my sawstop contractors table saw about a week after I saw their products on YouTube. I still haven't drank the green kool aid yet. It's pricey stuff and for the job site where stuff gets knocked around not sure if it's the best (only) tool, but rather a compliment. You missed mentioning the MFT/3 table? It's very unique! And that the tools play together VERY well; a drill for every occasion or circumstance, ditto for routers, sanders and the two dominoes. Their huge line of dust extractors is mind boggling - mini, midi, CTs etc and they are very quiet compared to an ear defening orange Rigid Vac...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oezp-_DcUgg
festool is leaps and bounds beyond what apple pretends to be. Milwaukee and dewalt are like apple and samsung... both very good brands, but not super innovative. Any innovation they have is likely the product of some other company.
It is very refreshing to see such a company that cares so much about design, quality and inovation, that has control from start to finish.
Really enjoyed the series -- any chance of a follow-up series about Festo (the pneumatics company that spun off Festool)? Their products are consistently well designed, with a similar focus on performance/quality instead of just price point -- I'm curious how much of the rest of the design culture of Festool is alive and well in Festo. Their Bionic Learning Network has cranked out some wild stuff that I'd like to know more about.
Excellent series. The Domino changed my entire process for the better and worth every penny.
Great series. I've got about a dozen Festool tools. They are not all miraculous, not all are even superior to the competition, but all are good and some are really great. At the macro level, the tool market would be much impoverished without Festool and the other high-end niches (Mafell, et. al.)
Great series. As a woodworker and as someone with a strong interest in ID, this was a treat!