Thekla McDaniels wrote:
timfromtang Dawson-Stanley wrote:Conflict about misuse of sharp tools can be resolved/dissolved with sharpening/maintenance skills.
tim
🤔 Hmmm, what are you actually saying? That everyone who doesn’t want to take care of their own tools can use mine, and I can re-sharpen and or repair them, IF I can find them, or replace them if I can’t?
At my house, this is seen as an issue of respect. And lack of respect, well there’s not much future in that, is there?
I'd say, ownership of tools is not achieved with purchase power or even skill in use alone, maintenance, respect, the zen of sharp, they all have their place. I've had the experience of a borrowed mortice chisel being used to cut a piece of rebar having been borrowed, then returned mangled and without shame or remorse. It turned out, that when shown what the tool was properly used for,how a sharp one performs, and the work required to restore the heavily damage edge described, shame and remorese were indeed demonstrated and remedy offered (NO i did not allow the offender to repair the tool)
tim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVt6ZLB9Wg
