Embarrassing question about plane blade cambers.....

[bugbear]

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Practice is what happens when a master shows an apprentice how to cut a mortice, then tells him to cut 500 of 'em.

BugBear

By which time he will have learned how to do them pretty well, better than by any amount of instruction.

The instruction came from the master. That's how the master/apprentice thing work(s/ed).

Unless you're Robinson Crusoe, trapped alone on a desert island, re-inventing every technique yourself, from scratch, seems both silly, and insulting to traditional expertise and knowledge.

BugBear

 

[mr grimsdale]

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Unless you're Robinson Crusoe, trapped alone on a desert island, re-inventing every technique yourself, from scratch, seems both silly, and insulting to traditional expertise and knowledge.

BugBear

Having been instructed in hair splitting and how to set up the tools, you then need to go off on your own and practice. However good the instructions, the first ones are likely to be less good. By the 500th you could be really getting the hang of it.
This is a common experience for most craft workers in most areas.
You should try it sometime BB!

PS its pretty obvious that the quality will improve - less obvious is that speed improves too, often by a much bigger margin than one might imagine. This means that batch (if not mass) produced items by hand, makes sense. You wouldn't necessarily know this if you do one-offs a lot.

 

[bugbear]

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Unless you're Robinson Crusoe, trapped alone on a desert island, re-inventing every technique yourself, from scratch, seems both silly, and insulting to traditional expertise and knowledge.

BugBear

Having been instructed in hair splitting and how to set up the tools, you then need to go off on your own and practice. However good the instructions, the first ones are likely to be less good. By the 500th you could be really getting the hang of it.

Err. Yes. That's what I said?!?!

This is a common experience for most craft workers in most areas.
You should try it sometime BB!

PS its pretty obvious that the quality will improve - less obvious is that speed improves too, often by a much bigger margin than one might imagine. This means that batch (if not mass) produced items by hand, makes sense. You wouldn't necessarily know this if you do one-offs a lot.

If you want to see the effects of practice, watch a 12 year old play a videogame...

BugBear

 

[mr grimsdale]

If you want to see the effects of practice, watch a 12 year old play a videogame...

BugBear

Or Alfred Brendel playing the piano.

 

[bugbear]

If you want to see the effects of practice, watch a 12 year old play a videogame...

BugBear

Or Alfred Brendel playing the piano.

Yeah. He's pretty good, isn't he!

BugBear