Monday and Tuesday I was at Gregory Paolini Design near Asheville to take the Festool Essentials class. Greg is a terrific instructor and extremely enthusiastic about woodworking and Festool. He also teaches furniture and cabinet making classes that are not associated with Festool. Plus he writes for Fine Woodworking and has developed several tools for Woodpecker. He is a very interesting person to talk to and great advocate for the woodworking as a hobby and profession.
The class size was small (6 people) allowing plenty of personal instruction from Greg. Topics covered included the Festool system, dust collection, setup and use of the MFT/3 table, hands on work with the TS55 REQ track saw, hands on application work with the Kapex, hands on application work with the Domino. Plus some router work at the end of the last day. Lots of information, and practical work with the tools is packed into two days.
I learned a lot, solved some problems I was was experiencing using some of the tools (mostly operator error), and came home energized to take on some higher level projects. All-in-all a good use of time and money. I now want to take the advanced router course.
The class size was small (6 people) allowing plenty of personal instruction from Greg. Topics covered included the Festool system, dust collection, setup and use of the MFT/3 table, hands on work with the TS55 REQ track saw, hands on application work with the Kapex, hands on application work with the Domino. Plus some router work at the end of the last day. Lots of information, and practical work with the tools is packed into two days.
I learned a lot, solved some problems I was was experiencing using some of the tools (mostly operator error), and came home energized to take on some higher level projects. All-in-all a good use of time and money. I now want to take the advanced router course.
