Without a human mind and his/er thumbs to direct it every tool or piece of equipment up to and including the space shuttle is just highly refined dirt. I'm trying to develop some tolerance for folk who say, "If I had (whatever the "perfect" tool is) I could do that." I used to hide all my tools at work, especially the lathe tools because of the guys who thought it was the tool that does the work and kept ruining mine. Once again you're right on target Thomas. Or to bring it home-Folks get out in the shop and practice using whatever you have and not worry so much about having a vacuum cast H-13 anvil with the story of Weyland the smith laser etched on the side. I've also welded up a billet in an improvised forge using charcoal from desert bonfires for fuel and a chunk of RR rail and a clawhammer. I've met some folks that had to have a *perfect* smithy set up and then when they found that they needed to actually practice to do good work they abandoned the craft selling off their almost new tools for a fraction of the original cost. You may have noticed that in almost every hobby there is a subset of people that have "all the cool toys" for it but don't really do much with them and when they do it's often at a level that does not due their tooling proud. Blacksmiths suffer mightily from Anvil Envy but in truth it's the *work* you do that should be the basis of your bragging not what a great set of tools you have.
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