Mark wrote:



"SteveB"
wrote:

I love this show.



Barry S. wrote:


I have a different view. I believe they are low end system
integrators. The really high skill work is done by others. They take
a bunch of prefabbed parts and put them together.




That's my second biggest problem with the show, they buy components and
screw them together. Or as you so nicely wrote their little more than
system integrators. They really don't build anything.

I feel this is what 'custom' has come to mean with about everything, the
assembly of mass produced parts.


Biggest problem I have with the show? The old mans mouth.

Me too. I think that Vinnie does have a lot of
talent, but the constant "get to work, you don't
know what I have to put up with" is getting old
fast. We all know that it's not easy to work for
your old man, but it still shouldn't be that hard.

It's been pointed out that they are just systems
integrators, but I tend to give them quite a bit
more credit than that. I think that Vinnie does
have some serious artistic talent going for him.
He manages to pull together the outside vendors,
who are for the most part, serious craftsmen/
artists themselves, to produce a beautiful product.
The market certainly acknowledges the worth of
their work.

The *real* genuis might be the person at the
Discovery Channel that went out on a limb to do
a series on them.