John Miliunas
08-18-2003, 11:57 PM
After my most excellent experience with Festool and our very own Festool rep, Bob Marino, I decided to dig a bit deeper and order the jigsaw. Received it today and, even though I didn't have a whole lot of time to put it through its paces, for what little I did do, it works GREAT! The order came undamaged and complete. The system case it comes in is well designed, as it was with the sander. Setup is reading through the instruction booklet, snapping in the dust collection port, installing a blade and one of their chip guards (a zero clearance insert). Finishing other projects, precluded spending a whole lot of time with it, but I did try it on a thick (@2") chunk of Hard Maple. I purposely chose this chunk of Maple due to its thickness. Granted, I may not have ever had a "high quality" jigsaw, but with any I've ever used, I found that the "walls" of the piece just cut were not a perfect 90* to the surface. Actually, not even close to that! Lots of time had to be spent after the cut cleaning and squaring it back up. NOT with this rig!
You first notice quite a bit of heft to the unit. I wouldn't want to do a whole lot of cutting on anything but a flat, horizontal surface, due to this, but that same fact, I believe, attributes itself to helping make a nice clean cut. After the cut, I pulled out my little engineers square and did a more "scientific" observation. I am here to say that the "walls" of the cut are square to either surface! Not just "kinda' square", but SQUARE! Don't know if chip-out would've been an issue with a chunk like this, but the cut on the surface was clean, as well.
Bottom line: One sweet saw made by a World Class outfit and sold (to me) by one class act of a rep, that being Bob Marino, of course. (Starting to sound like a big plug for both, ain't it?) I guess you might say it is, though I have nothing to gain from it. Just real happy with my tools and the rep handling the transaction! So, if any of you folks are in the market for a super-nice jigsaw, check out the Festool. I don't hesitate for one second in recommending it! :cool:
You first notice quite a bit of heft to the unit. I wouldn't want to do a whole lot of cutting on anything but a flat, horizontal surface, due to this, but that same fact, I believe, attributes itself to helping make a nice clean cut. After the cut, I pulled out my little engineers square and did a more "scientific" observation. I am here to say that the "walls" of the cut are square to either surface! Not just "kinda' square", but SQUARE! Don't know if chip-out would've been an issue with a chunk like this, but the cut on the surface was clean, as well.
Bottom line: One sweet saw made by a World Class outfit and sold (to me) by one class act of a rep, that being Bob Marino, of course. (Starting to sound like a big plug for both, ain't it?) I guess you might say it is, though I have nothing to gain from it. Just real happy with my tools and the rep handling the transaction! So, if any of you folks are in the market for a super-nice jigsaw, check out the Festool. I don't hesitate for one second in recommending it! :cool: