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I would say that

If your hand controls the tool that does the work that creates the item then it is hand crafted

So an item created with a DRO counts, but the same item with CAD/CAM does not

Basically any item made with hand-eye co-ordination is hand crafted

There's only one basic route, and there aren't any shortcuts

All you're doing is spending vast amounts of time exploring all the unmarked shortcuts

I seriously doubt that human population growth will ever stop

The poor reproduce at an amazing rate and capitalism always produces loads of poor people

Arab countries double every 30 years, Africa is a disaster zone, South America is trying to flit to North America

China is trying to help by digging up and burning the entire planet to try and emulate the wests level of wealth and stabilise its population

Pompei was a huge eye opener for me

It used to be a moderate town with Herculaneum up the coast a bit

Now the entire area is completely blanketed with houses apart from the immediate caldera around Vesuvius The human rat has expanded at a phenomenal rate

AD79 Pompeii is going to look like a minor incident if that thing blows again

I found the google picture, it's here

Edited By Ady1 on 07/08/2023 01:07:26

I've got a wood router which could take a plasma cutter. Fabulous accuracy 0.1mm at super speed.

Does perfect curves or whatever you want.

But all the operator does is press a button

CAD/CAM isn't unskilled insofar that it lets you go from a new idea to manufacture within 24 hours

It unleashes your creativity by making a complex process very efficient and relatively simple

"Manufactured by hand" may be the description, but the lines are blurry

Edited By Ady1 on 06/08/2023 14:03:31

Anything made on CAD/CAM is commercial because of its portability

It's a completely different skill set compared to hand built

It's laser

Americans speak Englizh

(The US spellcheckers can be pretty annoying)

Edited By Ady1 on 06/08/2023 11:46:06

The big difference with cad/CAM is once you've done the bespoke bit you can run a million of them off with machines going 24/7

They need to change the classes to Hand built and CAD/CAM/Digital entries

You don't even need to be in the same room when these items are being made, the only hand built bit is the cleaning and tarting it up bit

The ET phone home subroutine kicked in and saved them

My Drummond M from the war and the 1950s one were grey too

They must have got a job lot of battleship grey paint in WW2

I put rubber matting under my shaper, partly to stop it walking but also to remove the vibration transmitted into the concrete floor which could be felt in the house

We're making some big mistakes with trees at the moment

The open parkland near me gets grants via the council and they're planting them in useless clumps for speed and efficiency purposes. Stick 'em in the deck and get yer save-the-world cash asap.

They should be planting them boulevard style so that as people move about they are in permanent shade

Trees absorb massive amounts of sunlight and heat and this needs to be taken advantage of

They'll want us to use turnip oil or something like that, just rub it in with oatmeal

Saw your video

Your indexed tool looks like its too far away from the job, always cut with the toolpost as close as possible to minimise tool flex

When drilling deep I use an old toothbrush dipped in oil to clean the drill flutes and lubricate them between each pass

Edited By Ady1 on 03/08/2023 03:11:28

The stuff I got was so bad I gave up. A "cobalt" set I got was unbelievably bad, some of them were only good for drilling round corners and one pinged into pieces like glass

Lidl stuff is passable basic hss but decent drills just go and go between sharpening

The really big difference is when I hand drill steel, it's so much easier. I've been using a teeny 1/8 dormer for pilot holes for a bunch of jobs over the last month and it hasn't even needed resharpening

Straight accurate holes up to 13mm have never been so easy... once I got sensible

And when you put them into the lathe huge curls of steel peel away from the workpiece, luxury.

I've also salvaged every old imperial dormer from every nook and cranny in the garage and placed them in their own dedicated rack, those guys are valuable nowadays

Sounds like you got lucky to me, well done you

Edited By Ady1 on 03/08/2023 02:54:07

Well done you, plus you've learnt the advantage of decent drills about 10 years faster than me.

There was still one guy still working from the Apollo program on telly a few years ago (4 years?)

He was in his 70s

Each day he got the reading from a gadget (laser?) on a lonely hill in the USA pointed at a target left by Neil Armstrong (or his buddies) on the lunar surface

It was to measure the exact distance between the earth and the moon each day

The missus would say I don't need a step ladder

If you reference drawing 1 properly and use the same xyz plane arrangement for drawing 2 then you can copy/paste your holes straight over to the second part from the sketch in drawing 1

Its part of thinking ahead and setting the job start-up properly, use the grid and be aware of which plane each part is being drawn in

Can save a lot of time and effort later on in a build, it all drops into assembly facing the right way

If you have an odd number of holes in a circular arrangement put your first one at 12 o'clock and do a circular repeat

Edited By Ady1 on 02/08/2023 11:14:07