Hi Ady1, Norman and David,
I agree entirely with all of your sentiments, it’s a pity there isn’t an irony button or ‘tongue in cheek’ smiley that I could have used. The reasons you gave are exactly the same reasons that one might choose to pay £8,000 for a Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson
dining table when a perfectly good, CAD designed, CNC machined perfect table can be bought for a couple of hundred from
IKEA.
It is the artistry and skill required to make something beautiful by hand that is what some will pay for. But it is constantly being drilled into us that CADCAM and CNC is the way forward because these hand skills were, to quote a posting, “out of date by 1945”. We should just create a computer model, upload it and then sit back, have a cuppa and read while the part is being made. There is an irony somewhere that these ‘methods of the future’ should mostly be used to make models of ancient technologies.
Skilfully hand made and beautiful artefacts are still considered by some to be desirable and worth a premium and in fact of better ‘quality’. Otherwise why would a musician, for example, pay 4 or 5 grand for a hand made instrument when you can pick up a perfectly good computer designed and made, mass produced one for a hundred or so?
By the way Ady1, I love baked beans on toast served with a fine breakfast tea, freshly brewed in a pot. Almost as much as – when living in France for part of the year – I love Breton oysters (preferably Cancale flat, not ‘cupped’) served with a crisp, chilled Muscadet, or in the evening with a warming glass of distilled Lambig to follow (you should try some sometime), But then I might choose the Scottish smoked salmon on lightly scrambled eggs on gently crisped homemade bread that my wife serves for Sunday breakfast with a nice Sparkling white. Or I might prefer ………………….
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Best regards all,
Terry
Terry