>Back to the Verituner...I have heard nothing but raves of this machine and >find it tempting to fork over the mula for an upgrade. >I would love to road test it for a week >Tom Servinsky,RPT Hi Tom, Me too. But then again, maybe not. I'm possessed of (by) a short attention span when it comes to getting through a fundamentally uninteresting and repetitious process. The easier it gets, the harder it becomes and I go looking for fresh sources of aggravation. A machine to do my thinking for me in one of the most tedious aspects of my work, and one I spend the most time doing, would be hard on me in the long run. At first, I suspect, it would be like finding money on the street - all profit. I would certainly become immediately addicted to (dependent on) the machine and go into "wake me when it's time to collect the check" mode. Soon, I also suspect, I would feel that I had become the dray animal for the brains, rickshaw driver for the boss, if you will, and functioning as a tool for the tool. It's like the aphorism that a chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs. That would be hard for me. I don't like being superfluous. I know, I know, I've read the thousands of lines praising the virtues, and lots of folks may find their own balance with their machines where the machines are just a tool, like a table saw, but my table saw doesn't position the rip fence, nor tell me where to index the stock on the miter gage so I can push it through the blade. While I'm a far cry from being an expert tuner, what feeble results I do produce come from my own talents, ears, brains, and hands. They almost certainly aren't the best of all possible tunings under the circumstances, but the process of creating and constructing these flawed little works is, for me, what makes it tolerable to go out there and do it day after day. Eventually, I'll give up and either buy (or write) an ETD, or quit tuning altogether. For now, it's me, my fork, and my stone age methods. Just some ravings from the cheap seats. Ron N
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