[TheForge] using tools to build tools

[GRAF]

Files, scrapers, talent, and time.

Mike Graf

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello
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> earlier today ( saturday ) i was having a discussion concerning
> inexpensive tools. the subject turned toward the age old questions that
> people have been asking for centuries. how did the first person build a
> lathe, wood turning lathe or metal turning lathe, without all ready
> having a lathe to use. my friends all agreed that the craftsman's talent
> would dictate the accuracy of the tool. they would not agree with me
> that i should be able to use a homebuilt gingery metal lathe and the
> other tools in in the gingery series to build large and more accurate
> tools in a bootstraping manner. they did not see how i could use a metal
> lathe of questionable accuracy to produce a metal turning lathe of known
> accuracy. i hsd no examples to show them since my tools are buried in
> the  garage amongst many layers of materials to remodel the house and
> such. ( the home remodeling was put on hold because of the
> head-on-collision back in 2007. i was hoping on finishing the home
> remodeling this year but it appears that the doctors have other ideas
> for my freetime. )
>
> i was trying to come up with common examples of using tools of
> questionable accuracy to build tools of high accuracy. for the life of
> me i could not think of any examples.
>
> would anyone on the list have some exampled that i may give to my
> friends the next time we meet?
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