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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: And now, more 'Hometime' news
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.182626.25566@informix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:26:26 GMT
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- Jim Morgan writes:
- >Really, NYW is bad enough, but on Hometime they really go through projects
- >at lightspeed. I don't see how anyone could learn much from watching. I
- >wish these shows would slow down and discuss and demonstrate different ways
- >of doing things. After all, we don't all own every tool known to mankind
- >(you listening, Nahm?). Learning about new ways to use common tools
- >or novel ways of solving problems would be more useful to most people than
- >seeing the latest expensive squiblet flurbigator in action. (Oh no!
- >I swore I wasn't going to add to _that_ thread!)
-
-
-
- While Norm does own just about every tool known to the human race, he is
- very thoughtful about using different methods to accomplish the same
- ends (for example, you'll see him making mortices with a router (some-
- times squaring the hole with a chisel, sometimes rounding the tenons with
- a rasp), with a mortising attachment for his drill press, and with a
- dedicated mortising machine).
-
- I can say I have seen him demonstrate some methods for solving problems that,
- while perhaps not novel, were rather inventive. His use of jigs represents
- perhaps the best way of getting consistent results in making many duplicate
- pieces.
-
- So all in all, I'd say all of your gripes (except the one about owning
- every tool) are completely unfounded. IMO, Norm ALWAYS emphasizes the
- end result, and not the tool. If you sit down and watch and listen,
- instead of just drooling over his tool collection and being torqued
- that his is bigger than yours, you just may learn some of the things
- you are asking for!
-
- Dave
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