My Curse: I just like the font on this saw

I’m sure the Festool TS 75 plunge cut saw is great, capable of cutting through wood up to 2.75-inches thick without leaning a burn mark or splinters, but what most impresses me is how pretty it is. I still haven’t gotten over the fact that there are power tool companies out there making (mostly ghastly) modern-looking tools. [via Toolmonger]

1. [drtwist]

   For what _anything_ from festool costs, it better look pretty. That said Hitachi has been making some ghastly looking stuff lately

2. [btb]

   Ha, we have that at work, and the table to go with. My boss likes pretty things I guess.

3. [jco]

   Festool is like crack cocaine for woodworkers. Really nice ergonomics, great dust collection, very powerful and precise tools. The real selling point of this saw is the guide rail system, which makes it trivially easy to make perfect straight cuts. And no, I don’t work for Festool, but if they’d like to send me a TS75 for “evaluation” I wouldn’t turn it down…

4. [Bucket]

   Yeah, really, you’re paying enough to send half a dozen design students to Pratt when you buy Festool, they’d better have good typography.

   Not that I wouldn’t buy everything they sell if I had the cash.

   And totally agree about the Hitachis. I imagine their product manger yelling at a bunch of engineers – “Make it GREENER! More LUMPS! Bob, why aren’t there any rubbery stripes on that handgrip?”

5. [kevin]

   Looks like Eurostile extended for the logo on the saw, but the logo on their website looks like something else… anyway, that is my two cents.

6. [Anonymous]

   It is very close to Eurostile but that’s not the font used. Festool has developed a proprietary font that uses subliminal mind control techniques. Seriously though, worth every penny and then some. Once you go green…

7. [Meuzent]

   We have one at our shop. Where we build custom garage doors for all the rich silicon valley types. Every door is made with this saw. Festool has thought of damn near everything when it comes to making a clean feature packed tool.

8. [remmelt]

   Oh Festool… If only I could afford you.

   Is it the interchangeable, green plugged cord? Is it the way all the containers connect to each other and to the vacuum? They way everything has been thought of to the tiniest detail?

   Or is it just how damn good everything looks?

9. [Anonymous]

   Totally! I always felt the same way about Hilti’s font.

10. [Anonymous]

    Damn. that IS pretty. I can’t tell one screwdriver from another (unless it’s a cocktail), and I want it.

    -lainie.

11. [Anonymous]

    I think the blade is on backwards.