"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote

I am going to call you on that one, considering furniture, I seriously
doubt that most people today realize that there is better furniture to be
had. Most people that I have dealt with think they have good furniture.
They see how I build my furniture and that is generally all they need to
see to commission me to build for them.


Yep, that is soooo... true.

As someone who was raised on home built and second hand furniture, I did not
know how BAD conventional furniture was until I got out in the world and saw
it for the first time. I was amazed how flimsy a lit of it was. I remember
building some bookshelves that did not fit in a particular space. I gave
the bookshelves to my sister. She, and her house visitors, were amazed on
how "sturdy" the bookshelves were. That was over 25 years ago. Visitors to
her house, 25 years later, still remark on how "sturdy" those shelves are.

That only means one thing. There is a lot of crap out there and when people
run into something different, it is a bit of a revelation for them.

Another thing. I came to the big city and had access to hardware stores,
lumber yards, tools, classified ads, garage sales, etc. Far more resources
than I had growing up. So I started building. And immediately got lots of
criticism for ''too many fasteners", "too many braces", "too heavy"
furniture", etc. Apparently if you weren't building low quality, wobbly
stuff, you weren't doing it right!

People raised around crap go through a change when exposed to the good
stuff. I have been a corrupting force in this regard.

I mean, really, who sets out to build wobbly crap? Either you don't know
any better or you just don't care.