[Jewelry making - Article 00043] - Re: [Orchid] Problems with Pepe Mill sold by Stuller

[Brian]

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>     [...snip] I am not advocating either course of action. I am simply
>     observing the difficulty in arriving at the right mix of quality
>     that we trying to get and money that we are willing to spend. 

    Thanks, Leonid, for your comments. Very well put, both of your
    postings. They've helped me think more clearly about what I do. 

    I had always thought I agreed with the often expounded theory that
    the best possible tools are the best possible investment as they'll
    reward us with a lofetime of service, yet I always seemed to be
    buying cheaper tools of a lesser quality that blatantly showed me I
    did not follow my own credo. 

    An answer has occurred to me. When I look at my tool use I note that
    as I create things I also have a tendency to want to alter my tools.
    Rather than use high precision tools to make my creations (where the
    creativity is entirely in the object-making) I begin my creative
    process a little earlier with the actual tools, and modify them in
    an experimental way to serve my ideas better. I wouldn't dream of
    experimentally re-shaping an expensive tool, so maybe for me they
    would have been a retrograde step for my style of creativity. 

    However it's important to work with awareness, and using a low
    quality tool requires another extra awarenes: it just might not stand
    up to the use I'm putting it to, even in it's normal (unmodified)
    state. Put pressure on it and that may be too much for it. 

    That's just tool care. Our part of the tool's manufacture+use
    equation that we all must perform, whether we use high quality high
    precision tools or low quality low precision tools. 

Brian
Auckland NEW ZEALAND
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