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Where do we delineate? I have no interest in a CNC but would kill for a Shaper Origin. Could not live without my laser's cutting ability.
I do not recognise MDF as wood, yet I use it in "my timber" classification... who still plants and mills their home grown trees... Breaking your nose while swinging on a tree as a kid does not render it exotic bloodwood (no matter how famous you might be)... so where do you get your exotics? cut with big handsaws and rafted internationally.
I agree that the term handmade in the example is a misnoma, but then so is "Made in USA", with anything up to 95+% of the material and labour imported. Here in Australia, that is a congecture for many legal battles.
Does sharpening a chisel with a Tormek render it non-handtools.... must all sanding be done with blocks?
We need to come to terms and appreciate we are now living in the present... warts and all.
Nowdays the art is in the design... including B-UKy and his SketchUp... Its the fabrication that is in the hands of the creator (not the one sitting up in the clouds) and how he chooses to create should be transparent. How he sell it is in his conscience, caveat emptor.
But back to what I interpreted as the crux of this blog.... how the hell do we entice newbies to "woodworking" (in whatever shape) and to this forum?
I do not recognise MDF as wood, yet I use it in "my timber" classification... who still plants and mills their home grown trees... Breaking your nose while swinging on a tree as a kid does not render it exotic bloodwood (no matter how famous you might be)... so where do you get your exotics? cut with big handsaws and rafted internationally.
I agree that the term handmade in the example is a misnoma, but then so is "Made in USA", with anything up to 95+% of the material and labour imported. Here in Australia, that is a congecture for many legal battles.
Does sharpening a chisel with a Tormek render it non-handtools.... must all sanding be done with blocks?
We need to come to terms and appreciate we are now living in the present... warts and all.
Nowdays the art is in the design... including B-UKy and his SketchUp... Its the fabrication that is in the hands of the creator (not the one sitting up in the clouds) and how he chooses to create should be transparent. How he sell it is in his conscience, caveat emptor.
But back to what I interpreted as the crux of this blog.... how the hell do we entice newbies to "woodworking" (in whatever shape) and to this forum?
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
