Thought you might all like this: my dentist is a great bloke, and we're always chatting when I go in - I was trying to use his binocular digital microscope to photo some of my blade sharpening experiments, but it's actually a lower magnification than I've got on my digital microscope...
Anyway, this got us talking about tools. Turns out his grandfather was a pattern maker, and he told me something that grandad had said that I've often suspected in an amateur way, but it was nice to have it confirmed.
The line was about the old one of 'a poor workman always blames his tools'. The patternmaker's response was 'yes, but a craftsman wouldn't even attempt the job with those tools', and he said that his meaning was quite clear - a craftsman may well produce better work than an idiot with a given tool, but he also knows and appreciates the value of good tools for fine work.
Yee haa - go out and spend!!!
Anyway, this got us talking about tools. Turns out his grandfather was a pattern maker, and he told me something that grandad had said that I've often suspected in an amateur way, but it was nice to have it confirmed.
The line was about the old one of 'a poor workman always blames his tools'. The patternmaker's response was 'yes, but a craftsman wouldn't even attempt the job with those tools', and he said that his meaning was quite clear - a craftsman may well produce better work than an idiot with a given tool, but he also knows and appreciates the value of good tools for fine work.
Yee haa - go out and spend!!!