In article , Harold and Susan Vordos says...

It's one of those things that you can go a life time without and swear it
makes no difference.. Bottom line is how much you expect from your machine,
your setup, your ability. I've always carried a definite edge over others
because I cared enough to learn early on. You're likely to find someone
that has the opinion that it doesn't matter. I think it does. I may
sound like an ass, but I can tell you all I need to know about a guy's
ability on a machine by looking at his lathe tools. When they look like
they've been gnawed out by a gopher, I rarely expect anything of substance
to come from the person, and I'm rarely disappointed.

Ah Haa! So this is why you don't like insert tools - you can't
use that as a metric any more! :^)

Jim


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