Thread: What's in a name?

So the reason that I can't turn properly is not the tools fault. Buggar, thatbwas my excuse..

Originally Posted by hughie

. The inherrent desire to own tools especially the latest and greatest seems to be greatest with turners.

HA!! Have you looked a golf magazines. Balls that go farther, $500 putters, drivers that drive the ball out of sight.

Cars with more junk on the dash than old airliners. Anti lock brakes, anti spin acceleration, auto climate control, auto speed control. Anti theft, auto door lock, air bags, auto lights, auto windshield wipers. Everything but good sense.

Car magazines, 500 horsepower, yellow convertibles with pretty girls grinning at the purported owners.

Photo magazines, cameras that are auto exposure, auto focus, take 40 - 11 photos per second, movies, and take the square root and tell time. You can take photos as well as X, Y, or Z famous photographer, shown in his bush hat, photo vest, and high maintenance woman standing by admiringly.

Fishing boats that will go 70 MPH, carbon fiber rods, lures that will make fish jump into the boat.

Fancy tennis racquets & balls.

Just about everything sold has advertising that promises that if you buy this very expensive doomyflatchit, it will make you better than anyone without, get fancy women to follow you, and make you rich.

BAH! HUMBUG!!

Now I will go have a cuppa, a BEX, and go lie down.

Bravo !
I wanted to add a comment about the discrepancy in tool sizes but Paul already hinted at it. Size designation varies internationally, shaft diameter vs. flute width depending on what side of the water you live on and the source of your gouges.