New Festool...

[Richard Findley]

Hi all

Just had a newsletter from Axminster. In it is a very interesting new tool by Festool. It's a chainsaw much like a circular saw (as in, you use it ith a track) and it has a Irving knife, so ideal for ripping deep timber. It looks great for those thick timbers but I am naturally a little wary of chainsaws.

So what do you think? Amazing new tool or accident waiting to happen? I can't decide but am seriously tempted...

Richard

 

[Richard Findley]

Here's a link: http://www.axminster.co.uk/festool-fest ... rod924857/

Richard

 

[chippy1970]

Richard,

It's an old tool , been around for years under the protool name which is part of tts who also own festool. They decided recently to close protool and a lot of the old protool stuff has been re-branded with festool colours.

There's quite a few new tools coming out I've ordered one of the new systainers they are bringing out with a mini mft top on it. Very useful when you have a stack of them with the mft one on top it works as a mini bench.

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[kostello]

A lot of these new festools are rebadged protool tools........

There has been lots of talk on the festool owners group about them.

I think the chainsaw thing would be great if you need to cut big roof timbers for oak frames out something like that

 

[Luketheduke]

Apparently there gonna be showing 11 new festool tools at the dm tool show in october so this may be one of them.. very nice looking too and would saw a lot of time for gang cutting rafters, looks kinda like the mafell one although i doubt its as good.. have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-s7tXWGfI so to get off topic but it sorta relative

 

[Shrubby]

Some of the tools were Festo branded and got moved to Protool after the Holzher buyout, when the holzher range was spread across the 3 Festo brands.
The really big framing tools from Holzher - now Protool were Hema products in direct competetion with Mafell - they use a much beefier rail system
Chippy is the top of that mft t-loc Birch ply or MDF ?
Matt

 

[chippy1970]

Just mdf matt

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