Decline in Valued Contributors???

[Fergie 307]

Moan, moan, whinge, whinge. Seems to be contagious.
I have foreign machines and tools.
SCM Combi - excellent.
Unnamed morticer (badged "Poolewood Equipment") but probably far eastern - excellent piece of heavy engineering and superior design.
Lost of Bosch excellent stuff.
Japanese plane blades - excellent.
East German woody plane - excellent.
Other foreign odds and ends all good stuff.
Also have excellent British lathe
Excellent British chisels and saws some new most old
Loads of excellent UK stuff.
If you've bought rubbish it's entirely your own fault!
I bought "Faithful" No 10 plane and it was garbage. My fault it was cheap and I thought I'd give it a go.
Not happy with Narex chisels - over hyped, nothing like trad Brit makes.

The most annoying thing for me is when a previously good maker dumbs down their products, presumably because customers were unwilling to pay for the traditional quality. So brand names like Record or Hayter can no longer be relied upon to supply something of really good quality, as opposed to some generic far eastern product which may be ok, but is rarely as good quality as the products they made in the past. A shame, but that seems to be the way things are going. I have quite a few Chinese and Indian tools, some good enough to wonder how they do it at the price, and think that we might as well throw in the towel. Others can be truly dreadful. Even good experience with a particular manufacturer is no guarantee. I have been quite impressed with some Sheppach stuff, which seemed pretty good for a budget piece of kit for light use, but one look at the vice on their portable bandsaw, and you have to wonder how such a piece of junk ever made it to production.

 

[woodhutt]

Another original post gone astray.

 

[baldkev]

Another original post gone astray.

Hold your horses, we havent got to the rising damp debate yet

 

[John Brown]

Hold your horses, we havent got to the rising damp debate yet

Never a problem if you simply keep your heating at 23C 24/7.

 

[baldkev]

Never a problem if you simply keep your heating at 23C 24/7.

Dont you start!

 

[Max Power]

What happened to the the likes of BradNaylor? Anyone know?

Blimey that names a blast from the past, l used to like his contributions

 

[Jacob]

Blimey that names a blast from the past, l used to like his contributions

Brad Naylor seems to be alive and well, enjoying retirement and playing golf, according to his many Facebook posts!

 

[Doug B]

Blimey that names a blast from the past, l used to like his contributions

Duncan was one of the good guys unless of course you read his google reviews

 

[Jacob]

Duncan was one of the good guys unless of course you read his google reviews

Just had a look - quel surprise! He always seemed dead straight. Mind you you never know who's writing the reviews, and why.
Glad I kept my head down!

 

[Jacob]

Managed to track down Brad Naylor! He plays in a blues band under an assumed name. He's the chubby geezer with the gob-iron.



Bugbear next? Let me guess - operates a Punch and Judy show in Brighton?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Ahhh ................... the Jacob who's never condescending strikes again.

 

[MF1000]

So did I and we did have them. Mechanical ones first then we could buy digital ones ourselves. Still had to know how to use a slide rule.

The good old brunsviga mechanical calculator operated by a simple crank handle ….no micro chips

 

[paulrbarnard]

Managed to track down Brad Naylor! He plays in a blues band under an assumed name. He's the chubby geezer with the gob-iron.



Bugbear next? Let me guess - operates a Punch and Judy show in Brighton?

I remember Bugbear from Badger Pond.

 

[Beginner.]

Sorry for only joining recently. With all my old jobs I always had a vast knowledge of people around me. So I would ask them. Then I left and started to settle down with kids football coach boys girls and then onto ladies football. Then my kids stopped playing football so I stopped coaching . Then a divorce ( left with hardly anything ) started a new beginbeginning and started a new life with new partner and have started doing hobbies.
As you can see I rebuild and convert stuff for my family.
Aslo converted a vwt5 van into a campervan and know started a second conversion
So I'm here to learn and ask questions