3x the price of their competitor brands - /diy/

Anonymous11/30/25, 12:30No.2961078

>3x the price of their competitor brands >specialise in powered tools I don't get it, surely they can't be that good?

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Anon11/30/25, 13:02No.2961079

It's a German company that produces its tools in Germany and the Czech Republic. They pay their employees rather than using slave labor, and the quality is higher as a result.

Anon11/30/25, 13:27No.2961082

The only thing worth a shit they make is the Domino and maybe their vacs, everything else sucks. Also, their stuff doesn't work without their proprietary bullshit, enjoy paying 5$ for a single dowel, for example.

Anon12/01/25, 01:53No.2961194

for me its ryobi. it just werks

Anon12/01/25, 04:21No.2961215

Festool is targeted at cabinet makers and other fine woodworking installers. I have a stack of it collected over more than twenty years, but it gathers dust because what little woodworking I do is with dimensional lumber and plywood, and is easier to do with my collection of cordless tools.

Anon12/02/25, 23:18No.2961645

Automotive painter/prepper/bodyman in my smol workshop. RO 90 and 150 is what i have from Festool. Shits great. Need to get to (or even through in corners) metal, fast? Take loud as fuck Rotex. Same deal with kicking down fist layer of putty. Some of them can be really hard to sand. 90 is a beast also, i never thought that delta attatchment can be used for cars. Just zip the shit out of rims or other places.Need forced action polisher? Blast em clean and slap pad on and get going. RO 150 has same specs as Rupes Mille and it just works. If it falls apart, send it to repairs or get parts yourself. They will outlive me. Probably these are last generation Rotexes because bigger one is in production for almost 20 years...For more delicate or quieter sanding i have Mirka Deos blocks and smol n big Deros.I started my effort from scratch, without funds and support and after a year, system basically works. Even in remote europoor village.Thanks for reading my blogpost.

Anon12/04/25, 22:46No.2962109

>I don't get it, surely they can't be that good? for DIY it's overkill unless you are rich and want to have a really sick setup that you don't use very often. the only reason to get into festool is if you are a professional who wants really high end products with a lot of power, features, dust collection, and fantastic warranty support. festool is head and shoulders above most companies when it comes to this stuff. i run festool miter saws, a festool router, and their sand paper is the best even though i run a mirka sander. mafell has them beat on track saw and router. the festool sander is probably better than the mirka for painters. all my battery hand tools are milwaukee and i will give this anecdotal evidence: >festool kapex eats a piece of ipe that was too small and I shouldn't have been cutting anyway >blade grabs it and pulls it into the housing seriously fucking shit up >go on website submit warranty claim >get shipping label >saw gets back a week later with half of the parts replaced and cutting great again vs milwaukee >oscillating multitool breaks (turned on but the blade had no power going to it) >similar process to festool >they sent me a brand new replacement >the blade screw retainer is broken >have to send the brand new replacement back to them >finally get a working replacement a lot of companies have good warranties and good tools, but festool doesn't have hiccups like some of the other guys. i was burning up bosch routers pretty consistently so i got the bigass festool router and have been loving all the creature comforts and accessories. also, dust collection is an absolutely amazing "i never knew what i was missing" feature that more people should invest in.

Anon12/05/25, 11:26No.2962283

Festool is a fashion statement. It's like snapon, people buy it for the logo and the bragging rights of having been ripped of by jews, not the performance.

Anon12/05/25, 16:32No.2962340

Does Festool offer an alternative to the GSB 12V-35?

Anon12/06/25, 00:11No.2962452

used one of these with two tracksFelt like a plastic toy, but I guess it worked good.Even joining the tracks felt weak, but I guess it worked.I guess if you were gonna be doing that sort of cutting all the time it would be worth it instead of Bubba DIY guide and Skillsaw.Even the storage box felt cheap and weak. More like dust cover than a storage box.

Anon12/10/25, 19:02No.2963772

they are that good. they just are. i work with hvac and general construction, if i did only construction i would buy festool. i dont so i buy dewalt

Anon12/14/25, 07:23No.2964557

They are that good. Not in terms of power or quality, there are many alternatives. It is about the little features that make life easier for your trade. Like, stuff you have to do on a daily basis and it saves you a few minutes every time. Not relevant for diy stuff but if you do stuff for money, time is money and Festool prices start to make sense.

Anon12/14/25, 08:28No.2964570

Anon12/16/25, 23:35No.2965256

It's just boutique shit guys who are high earning engineers buy. I'm sure it's well made and high quality, but not made for a job site.

Anon01/04/26, 03:30No.2968898

Our Snap-Off guy has a sense of humor

Anon01/04/26, 15:06No.2968983

getting ready to pull the trigger on picrel. half the price and twice the usefulness. sucks they just raised their prices though by $100

Anon01/06/26, 01:09No.2969274

Their tools are nice but I buy tools to work not to look at and brag about. Maybe one day ill have a shop and fill it with high end stuff but im not interested in paying $1000 for a track saw and have some retarded apprentice fuck it up.

Anon01/06/26, 06:49No.2969314

I’ve got an old Bosch PDA (pic related, as you can see, I’m running it on Granat already) which I’m mostly using to sand louvers and it absolutely sucks. It doesn’t have dust extraction (with the louver add on), it’s unergonomic to grab and the vibration is terrible for extended use. How much better (if at all, maybe that’s just normal for small delta sanders?) would the rotex RO 90 be? Should I splurge on it?

Anon01/09/26, 01:36No.2969880

I do antiques restoration, nothing compares to Festo in woodworking. I use only corded tools for this. Metalwork and cordless > Makita.

Anon01/23/26, 00:34No.2972420

I've used this at a workplace a few times. It's just as full of pot metal and plastic as any other brand. Not anything special or extra accurate.

Anon01/23/26, 04:56No.2972455

I used to work for an epoxy flooring company that mixed sand into the epoxy resin. Festool were the only paint mixers that wouldn’t die within a few months, and usually lasted a couple of years.

Anon01/23/26, 10:35No.2972481

Best friend is a sales manager for Hilti (even more expensive than Festool, 600€ for a basic drill). These brands don't give a fuck about diy, their market are the pros. Their tools are reliable workhorse that can be serviced for years if not decades. Hilti has an asbestos rated service shop so you can actually repair a tool that has been used on asbestos, no other brand do that. The biggest threat to the model is now some artisans buy Lidl shit and treat them as disposables.Said friend told me that for woodworking and painting, Festool is usually the best but for other works, not so much. True to that, the painter and the guy who changed windows both used Festools.