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Originally Posted by crystallographic
What is the customer willing to pay for?
Is the job polished?
Bare?
Paint-grade?
These are also worthy considerations.
Some craftsmen are pushed into doing polished work while apprentices, and others may never see that type of work, so the style of work comes from the working environment, and not so much from the craftsman's preference - although some guys push their own envelopes just to find out what is over the horizon.  
hope this helps ...  |
Very good words to take to heart. So many people lose sight of the fact that most things produced for $$ are more likely to be built down to a cost and not up to a standard. The same is as true now as it was decades ago.
Pretty sure Mike (and Kerry and Will and all the other people here building their own over-the-top personal car from scratch) passed the intersection of profit & loss at WOT long, long ago..... So now it's all about what they can and want to do.
I like watching people chase excellence, just because they want to- Very cool stuff. Keep it coming, Mike.