"jo4hn" wrote in message
.net...

Having made a living as a computer jockey since nineteen and aught
sixty-two, and having bought a RAS in 1965, here are some drips of
wisdom (?) from jo4hn's john. If WW tools had changed as much as
computers in the past 40 years, one would walk into the shop, say
good-day to the RAS, tell it cherry end-table, and go watch tv. The saw
would quickly order and accept delivery of the wood, oversee jointing
and planing, joinery, dry fit, glue-up, sanding and painting within a
few hours.

The creation thereof is the basic permise behind the latest in CNC
machinery. The problem is keeping the cost down. I would love to have a
machine in the shop, that cost less than a grand, that you could basically
program to create a ball-and-claw cabriole leg, and then walk away. Even
When I was a kid, sometime in elementary school, the Stanley plant in town
let us tour the shop floor. There we saw workers loading boxes full of wood
chunks, essentially cubes or rounds, into a hopper, and removing totes full
of completed tool handles from the other end. Inside, the machine spun
several cutters and removed everything that wasn't programmed to be a tool
handle.

Jon E