[pianotech] Making dowels

[William Monroe]

OK, OK, you're probably more on target than me. I'm being too literal.
 Sorry Jack, caught me at a bad time, I guess.  As I said, I've spent
probably more time than a lot of other folks doing things that were not
profitable, on principle.

I'll come clean.  I won't tell you how much time I spent, but I did spend
some time sorting paper punchings once.  Talk about an economically
bankrupt (but morally satisfying - I couldn't just recycle the mess)
procedure......

Back on earth now.....
WRM




On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> On 11/3/2012 10:24 PM, William Monroe wrote:
>
>>  Maybe when it comes to dowels, my work is a bit
>> hackish............
>>
>
> In that case, me too, mostly.
>
>
>  But the thread started because of Jack's discouragement based purely on
>> price, not on crooked, warped, or otherwise unsatisfactory dowel stock.
>>   His assertion then was that it was, essentially, a cost effective
>> measure to make his own.  My assertion is that it is not.
>>
>
> I agree that it's not, but my impression was and is more of a protest
> against a reality that doesn't make the cut (as it were). I can relate,
> whether I can defend it or not. Scars continue to accumulate, whatever. He
> didn't actually say or even imply that he could make them cheaper. He just
> declined to pay the asking price for the commercial product, and made his
> own. I've never been in a place where my time was so valuable and so spoken
> for on a minute by minute basis that I couldn't do something less lucrative
> for an hour or so for the entertainment and satisfaction of doing it.
>
>
>  BUT, my sole argument
>> against the process was that it was not, as was suggested, a cost
>> effective alternative to high-priced Home Depot dowels.
>>
>
> Without question, though I disagree that it was suggested in any way. He
> even said he made hammer shanks out of various woods for fun.
> Ron N
>
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