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| Nicolas Hulme:
--- Quote from: sparky961 on September 02, 2017, 06:55:38 PM ---I'm interested in exploring the opposite. If you were to make your shop smaller and smaller, and have the fewest amount of tools to do something useful, what would you keep? --- End quote --- None of it, it would cease to be capable of the work I wish to do and thus become pointless. |
| sparky961:
--- Quote from: Nicolas Hulme on January 08, 2018, 06:23:21 PM ---None of it, it would cease to be capable of the work I wish to do and thus become pointless. --- End quote --- As much as I love technology and gadgets, I can't help but feel a craftsperson who creates marvelous works with a minimum of tools is far ahead of one augmented with a fully appointed shop. |
| gerritv:
--- Quote from: sparky961 on January 20, 2018, 03:21:50 PM --- --- Quote from: Nicolas Hulme on January 08, 2018, 06:23:21 PM ---None of it, it would cease to be capable of the work I wish to do and thus become pointless. --- End quote --- As much as I love technology and gadgets, I can't help but feel a craftsperson who creates marvelous works with a minimum of tools is far ahead of one augmented with a fully appointed shop. --- End quote --- I agree. From my experience it helps in limiting the amount of time you spend chosing a tool. It does however require more creativity in fixturing and such :-) But that is where I think a lot of the pleasures come from. E.g. I often have to make a tool to make a tool to make a part. The tools then become part of the accomplishment. Gerrit |
| sparky961:
Indeed. The endless chain of tool making is to be avoided in the professional setting, but as a hobby it's the journey that matters much more than the destination. |
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