The corn design on the door isn't that hard to do.....he adapted a version from Patrick Spielman's early routing book- I'll dig out the reference if anybody wants - PM me.
As to the provenance of tools, a lot of people seem to have completely forgotten the oldest maxim in the book:
"It ain't what you got, it's how you use it."
I learned this very early on in another life as a photographer and was strongly reminded of it reading Derek Cohen's thread on his Krenov plane over on the Ozzie forum. Ol' Jim had planes that looked like a bear's behind, but used them like a virtuoso and created smashing, wonderfully immaginative pieces with them. This modern habit of out-doing one another in claiming increasingly expensive purchases of 'names' is baffling to me - it's a version of "how high can YOU pee on the wall?"
This guy in the prog. created a house with his own two hands and a limited budget in fairly ardous conditions. Who the hell gives a stuff if he did with a sharpened spoon and a rock? He did it. Let's celebrate craftsmanship, diligence and perseverence and not be so damn narky and carp at the lack of tinsel and glitter.
Oh, and Yes, I DO admire good tools, ones that do the job; My Mondeo and Multipla were both well capable of carrying my family, I COULD have bought a used Rolls Royce for the same price that I paid for the Multipla, but why should I have?
Rant over, bet the Moderators cull this 'cos of all the near-expletives.
