Wes Rolley on mon 2 may 05
Mel wrote:
> have respect for yourself and your craft...buy good tools.
I agree with Mel 100 percent. Buy good tools. That does not mean to
avoid inexpensive tools or to avoid anything made in China.
I was listening to Charlie Rose interview Tom Friedman last week. For
those not from the US, Charlie Rose has a nightly, hour long interview
show on Public Broadcasting that ranges from the topical to the
frivolous but mostly interesting. Friedman is an author and columnist
for the NY Times. They were talking about the effects of globalization
and Friedman quoted MS's Bill Gates as talking about the cutting edge
software that he was getting out of China.
The point is that there are good sources and bad sources and that price
is only sometimes the measure of the difference.
The renouned Japanese woodblock artist, Munakata, gave everyone the same
advice. Still, for himself, he bought cheap, off the shelf student
tools and threw them away. Why, because it suited him and the way that
he worked.
Or to parapharase Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, if you don't know what
you want to do then any tool is OK.
As for the Harbor Freight HVLP sprayer, I listened to Johnathan and I
listened to George K. I bought one, had 2 bottles, and find that they
do what I need them to do with no problems, just some common sense rules.
- Clean them when you are done.
- Because they have plactic parts, make sure that you don't cross thread
them.
Take care of your tools and they will take care of you. Not doing so
will cause them to drip...but then I don't care that much because I am
not looking for a smooth surface. If I don't like where the drip went,
I just move it around before while it is still fluid.
As my dad used to tell me, when quitting time comes, go put away your
tools properly, don't just drop them where you are. They last longer.
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Linda Ferzoco on wed 4 may 05
When I was in Japan in February and visiting with my teacher's sensei in
Toyohashi (after a thrilling ride on the bullet train!), he took us shopping
in the local Target-type store. It had a whole section with bonsai tools.
He told us that he buys all his bonsai tools there, uses them for a year
(sharpens them AT LEAST daily - you'd love this guy Mel) and throws them out
after a year or so.
We were all astounded. We were sure that he would be using the most
expensive Japanese bonsai tools, tools that cost in the hundreds of dollars
each. A lesson there.
Now, where did I put those whetstones?
Linda
On Mon, 2 May 2005 12:01:37 -0700, Wes Rolley wrote:
>The renouned Japanese woodblock artist, Munakata, gave everyone the same
>advice. Still, for himself, he bought cheap, off the shelf student
>tools and threw them away. Why, because it suited him and the way that
>he worked.
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