Upscale wrote:

For far too long, the market has been concerned solely with cheapest price.
Competition and marketing has inundated the entire market with cheap and
useless products, stuff nobody needs. We are all paying for this torrent of
crap.

Anyway, this is all theorizing.

Not so theoretical as all that. Recall the rec discussion of price and
warranty requirements that aborted introduction of the JBot as a product...

....and I recall that discussion every time conversation turns to
difficulties with dovetail jigs, duplicators, pattern drilling,
mortise/tenoning machines, and template routing. s

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/JBot/