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Musing about worth of turnings
Recent threads here and on other forums about deciding the worth of our
turnings seem to raise more questions than answers. For me, interesting enough to send me to my armchair to doze and wonder. If you permit, here is some personal thoughts, no doubt plagiarized and long forgotten. The worth of a turning can have two meanings; price and value. Price can be determined by formula. It's variables a time, equipment, shop, materials, learning, experience and all the costs of selling. A fair and reasonable price can be established for a worthy _product made by a good _workman. Value is determined by what the buyer gets out and will pay for, not by what the turner puts in. A turning's quality has nothing to do with how expensive or novel it is or how hard it is to make. I'm getting dangerously close to that worn out and forbidden subject of 'Art vs Craft'. Further, these musings may have been better put in Fine Arts 101 or your local newspaper's arts column. Sorry if I've crossed the line. Nothing is more tiresome than someone who believes he has had an original thought and feels compelled to bray about it. Anyway, I'd enjoy reading yours, whether you agree or not. Arch Fortiter, |
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