Just look at the quality of this wood taken from a door frame - first installed in our place around 1978. Look at the tight spacing on those growth rings. Beautiful.
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Mike G wrote:Tools were better.........
Woodbloke wrote:Mike G wrote:Tools were better.........
I take issue with that Mike as far as Record planes were concerned. In the mid-70's the 'bean counters' had a grip on the company and the planes produced were the absolute pits - Rob
Mike G wrote:True, but.......
walk into a builder's merchant now and buy a plane. Walk into a builders in the 70s and buy a plane for the same (equivalent) money. Which one is going to be better?
MattS wrote:Doing some DIY year or so ago we took out some boxing between two rooms and found a load of big chunks of amazing pine. What they threw away is way better than what you can buy nowadays! It formed the legs for my MFT style table and I still have some left!
Doug wrote:I don’t necessarily agree either wood or tools were better, with regard to timber there wasn’t the abundance of fast grown pine available years ago so anything made from pine was made of quality pine BUT you can still buy quality pine you just pay a premium for it.
To a point it’s the same with tools, there’s an awful lot of rubbish manufactured but there are plenty of manufacturers of quality tools that would rival any of the old manufacturers & with the advances in metallurgy blades of superior quality to those of yesteryear.
As for price, quality tools from which ever decade you choose have always been expensive compared to the average persons wage, though there is a far greater choice of poor quality tools to choose from these days but as with rubbish timber it’s just serving market demand. There in lies the real problem too many people follow the throw away society which drives down price & results in poorer quality merchandise.
Thankfully there are still those who appreciate quality tools & realise they come at a cost, though that cost is unimportant if the tool lasts a lifetime or more.
Woodbloke wrote:... On the bright side, t'interweb has made getting hold of stuff much easier - Rob
RogerS wrote:Woodbloke wrote:... On the bright side, t'interweb has made getting hold of stuff much easier - Rob
Te only trouble with that Rob is that one can't get hands-on' first before parting with the old spondoolicks.
Doug wrote:...companies that do the shows will see the shows go the same way as the high street stores which I think would be a real shame.
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