On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:00:03 GMT, "Frank Ketchum"
wrote:


I have thought of this often. Spend a grand on a computer and it will be
worth exactly nothing in 10 years whereas a grand invested in a jointer,
tablesaw, or any blurfl will not only still be useful, but it will retain
resale value.


And a grand's worth of time invested in going to see furniture that is
worth emulating will pay off in greater measure than either investment
in hardware. Too much of this newsgroups's time is taken up with the
investigation of the "How' in preference to the "What" or the "Why".

Pay for a plane ticket and sit in front of a Goddard-Townsend Chest
for a couple of hours. Go to your local museum and visit the best
examples of furniture to be found there. Pay for a nice lunch and a
good glass of wine and think about the why and the what of the pieces
that you best like.

Take your money and buy a good piece of furniture - take it into your
house and your mind and think on what makes it good.


Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
(Real Email is tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/