Go check out Tommy MacDonald's website for the blanket chest. It uses a wooden pin. Check it out and make a smaller version.

http://www.tommymac.us/blog/blanket-chest-2/

You'll like the plane. Rabbets up grain with barely a fuzz. Got the tilt fence, and hope to do some panel raising soon.

The two sanders do the same thing and sand and are 5" but they are significantly different than one another...the only thing they share are the Festool name and 5" disc size. If you were talking the 6", then yes, I would say they are similar is performance.

To start, the grip is different on both more upgrright for the ETS vs low profile on the EC, like air sanders.

Next, the ETS 125 has a much weaker 200 watt, 1.67amp motor vs the EC125's brushless 400 watt, 3.33 amp motor, which is the same as the bigger 6" model. This is a big deal if you are going to want efficiency and speed out of your sander.

Also, the ETS has a 2.0mm sanding stroke vs a 3.0mm on the EC. The ETS is more of a ultra fine finishing sander and can do the coarser grits but was more or less designed for higher grits.

Make sure to try them out a dealer and you will get an idea of the differences. Granted, the brushless is basically double the cost, however, there is a bigger leap here in the 5" models vs the 6" non-brushless to brushless.

Mods have enough to do, and they are not librarians. I bump a few from time to time that I feel are worthy.

I get it, clearly the value of a thread is in they eye of the beholder, but most that are bumped are worth a re-read and are lost to history once a year has past, so bumps save them for those searching for knowledge about a topic.

and the same to you sir.

Mel

Too far to ship here Arlin, but the guy who sharpens my saw blades also sharpens my forstner bits so you might want to check locally for a guy who sharpens saw blades.

Mel

What is it for?

well done

Very pretty and well made.

Are they phasing them out. No hand tools in my store that I could find.