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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: NYW bashing; was 'HOMETIME'
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180029.15463@informix.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:00:29 GMT
- References: <WOODWORK%93012014003725@IPFWVM.BITNET>
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- Jim Morgan writes:
- >
- >Thank you for your condescending post. You seem to have interpreted my
- >comments to mean exactly the opposite of what I had intended. Moreover,
- >we seem to be watching different shows. Everytime I watch, all I see is
- >NA saying, "now I'll use my xxxx to do this ... now I'll use my xxxx to
- >do that ... " I don't ever recall him saying, 'now I'll use my xxx to do
- >this, rather than my yyy, because ...' or 'now I'll use my xxx to do this,
- >but if you don't have one, you could also use yyy.' I think that the
- >unfortunate message this sends to aspiring woodworkers is that you can't do
- >much unless you can invest thousands of dollars in esoteric gimcracks.
-
- Again, you definitely need to watch more closely. I was just watching
- some shows from a previous season that I had taped, and Norm did
- *EXACTLY* what you claim he doesn't. He had a problem to solve (how to
- make a particular cut) and went through 4 or 5 alternate methods,
- giving his reasons why he thought they would not be very good. He
- finally settled on the tool he used because it lacked the flaws of the
- ones mentioned up to that point (sorry for the lack of details - I am
- on the road, and I watched the tape last week).
-
- If you really pay attention, you will probably find that the most
- commonly used "esoteric gimcrack" in Norm's repetoire is the common
- router!
-
- Dave
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