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[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Does that make him a poor craftsman or an extremely good craftsman

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As the saying goes, that depends on whether or not he blames his tool.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like whoever made that saying never tried to make anything, tools can't replace skill but bad tools can absoloutely make something many times harder than it needs to be which takes energy, time and motivation away from the fine detail that tends to make the biggest difference to quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

tools can’t replace skill but bad tools can absoloutely make something many times harder

A good craftsman knows the limits of his tools. A great craftsman knows how to make the tools necessary to surpass those limits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I dunno a jig saw makes cutting interesting curvy bits about a hundred times faster and its really hard to make one. Yeh you can make simpler stuff to do the same job but nowhere near as easily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Which in turn depends on which kind of tool we're talking about, of course.