[TheForge] Another Long rambley YAK

[David E. Smucker]

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> The reasons there aren't Grasshoppers (aside from the little brown and
> green ones) all over the place are simple:  (1) The design STILL isn't
> finalized, (2) I do not (and won't) tour the country like Clay Spencer,
> running treadle hammer-fabrication workshops.  I have no doubt that if I
> held a workshop to build Grasshoppers, I'd fill it quickly.  But the
> fabrication isn't the fascination to me...
>
> Bruce
>
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Interesting but I don't think that the fabrication is the fascination for
Clay either -- for Clay I think it is designing and building the Jigs and
Fixtures to do the fabrication.  Just another part of the LOVE of machine
design which I think both of you have lots of.   (We all love our children,
our designs, better than someone else's children, their design.  And this is
good, it is what keeps giving us new or improved designs.)

Dave Smucker