Does anyone know what "new" or BIG thing Powermatic is going to unveil in 7 Days 19 hours 31 minutes and several seconds ago? (Your time may vary depending upon when you read this.) Marc
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11 years ago
Powermatic mystery?
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11 years ago
Painting their tools green to compete with Festool. :-)
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11 years ago
thing Powermatic is going to unveil
Or Grizzly :o)
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11 years ago
thing Powermatic is going to unveil
Ha!!
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11 years ago
Beat them to it years and years ago... :)
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11 years ago
Yeah... seems to me early Powermatics I've seen were green....
John
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11 years ago
Festool - 1925 Powermatic - 1928
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Yup, I still have a green shaper. Sold my green TS and replaced it with a b= lack "Hot Dog" saw. I thought it was funny when a guy who rents space in my= shop called my SawStop a "hot dog" saw. I guess thhose hot dog demos have = done their branding for the company.
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11 years ago
I regretfully bring this information to you, I checked it before you posted too ;~0
Powermatic is celebrating 90 years, since 1921.
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11 years ago
before 1928.
The rest is marketing hype ...
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Oh yeah? Well ... ;~)
Not sure where the 1925 comes in except in the heading/history link but the information seems to point at Festool actually introducing a tool in
1929. And IIRC Festool originally operated under a similar name, Festo IIRC.Either way Festool is still owned by one of the founding families.
We can discuss further during our next FIG meeting. LOL
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11 years ago
Festo, originally a wood cutting tool company, was founded in 1925 and was the parent company until 2000 ... obviously the adding of "ol" making "Festool" was too just clever for the Germans, due to it's Anglicized twist and therefore a more global marketing cachet, to resist.
Thank gawd "Yves Laurent" wasn't available! LOL
BTW, the German word for tool being "werkzeug", it's no damned wonder. :)
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11 years ago
Hi Leon, I thought they "celebrated" 90 years by painting everything black,( or onyx). Or is your comment regarding to the dates in Swing's message?
=20 Marc
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11 years ago
I read somewhere that celebrating 90 with 3 30 year olds is interesting.... color not important...
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I'm just pointing to web sites where Powermatic is gold, Not sure where the special black series comes on.
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11 years ago
So in German,..... Festowerkzeug. Schnell!
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That was apparently another reason ... the infamous FEStool (Fast Efficient Safe) slogan only works in English:
Schnell Effizient Sicher doesn't quite cut it. ;)
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11 years ago
by such truth-streching.
The likes of Stanley Porter-Cable might be able to have fun with that. How about a T-shirt with the "90-year insignia" crossed-out (and ???)...
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11 years ago
On 6/1/2012 5:45 PM, Bill wrote: ...
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Don't bother me none...he founded the business and began in '21 it appears; only a name change a few years later instead of (apparently) doing business in his own name or under the lumber business prior to that.
Picky beyond words imo... :(
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11 years ago
I'd be more than satisfied with 2 45 year olds... (Sure wish I was 45 again!)