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Post by ivanhoe on Nov 8, 2014 21:03:58 GMT -5
As the title suggests - I have been using my only Festool rail with Precision Dogs parallel guides as there isn't any Maffell solution that I know of. The parallel guides in conjuction with Incra rails work fantastic. I know this is not a new solution as many Festool users go this route but until Mafell modifies or creates a system of their own this works very well IMO. I duplicated many consecutive width cuts with great accuracy! Here are a couple pics of the system:
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Post by jalvis on Nov 11, 2014 11:17:14 GMT -5
Too late....all sold.
Although your system works very well. Don't count on Mafell to come up with a solution. Something good will come out of MUF before Mefell HQ.
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Post by thedude306 on Nov 11, 2014 17:50:49 GMT -5
Is Mafell that slow at adapting new tech into there line up? I've emailed Mafell (no reply) and I emailed Seneca Woodworking about making an adapter to the FSN/Mafell rails. They replied with it is on the list of things to do.
I hope someone here comes up with a user friendly solution.
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Post by wrightwoodwork on Nov 11, 2014 18:24:25 GMT -5
Truthfully I think the reason companies don't tell if they have new products coming out is properly a lot of the time they can't either for legal reasons or don't want people to know either way apart from those directly involved.
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Post by jalvis on Nov 12, 2014 11:15:29 GMT -5
Mafell is not interested in making every possible accessory like Festool. You will never see a jigsaw accessory kit like Festool offers. Thats one of the reasons I like Mafell. I really dislike too many choices and feeling like the marketing is pulling me one way or the other. Mafell is also geared to the Professional and could care less about Hobbyists or the USA market. They are interested in Journeyman from Germany and the surrounding area. There marketing shows that mentality. If you can't look at the tool and see the possibilities then its not for you....that simple. Kinda staunch but I like it!
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Post by thedude306 on Nov 12, 2014 19:54:03 GMT -5
Mafell is not interested in making every possible accessory like Festool. You will never see a jigsaw accessory kit like Festool offers. Thats one of the reasons I like Mafell. I really dislike too many choices and feeling like the marketing is pulling me one way or the other. Mafell is also geared to the Professional and could care less about Hobbyists or the USA market. They are interested in Journeyman from Germany and the surrounding area. There marketing shows that mentality. If you can't look at the tool and see the possibilities then its not for you....that simple. Kinda staunch but I like it! I am not sure if that should scare a new comer to Mafell or if I should just embrace it!
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Post by wrightwoodwork on Nov 13, 2014 1:36:24 GMT -5
This is my own opinion, is that mafell aims it's self mainly different type market from festool. Mainly the people who work on sites out on the field who just want something simple and want to get the job done with the least fuss. Mainly the timber framing people and site joiners like myself. Where festool seems to aim at or is trying aim at the shop fitting, kitchen fitting markets or people who maybe don't have room for a full workshop and can't fit in a panel saw and other equipment so easily. So are working on their own and the parallel guides help the operator to achieve repeatability of the cuts. For me on site they just ain't practical. There is times I can hardly move have every trade trying to work in the same bit and the parallel guides would only get in the way. Where in a workshop environment they are properly fine. Also I know from mafell's facebook page are really big on training and have sponsored the German world skills team and recently supplied tools in the NL to a glass for carpentry work. So more the people who will become trades men. Not the hobbiest market where festool also markets it's self at.
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Post by jalvis on Nov 13, 2014 11:20:03 GMT -5
It doesn't bother me if someone else doesn't see the value. It doesn't bother me if theres only one dealer or the companies focus is there homeland. In fact I have more respect for companies that grow slowly and show restraint.
Festool is also partially geared toward Timber framing with there new merger. We will just have to wait and see how that plays out in the future.
Although I'm much different than most high end tool owners. I don't have emotional attachment to my tools and use them without holding back. If theres a scratch or something gets dirty I feel good knowing its getting used. In the end that means money in the bank and products being made which is what its all about in the trade.
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Post by thedude306 on Nov 13, 2014 15:01:23 GMT -5
I here what you're saying. It's like guys buying 100K+ sports cars and never taking them out to play and thinking only "their" brand is the fastest...
I'm in a little different boat as I just want the best tool for the job. My income doesn't come from these tools although my time is extremely valuable, and if I can do a better job, once, then the cost of somethings are worth it.
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