Quick Question: Lathe Tools and toolholders

[verbotenwhisky]

@RaisedByWolves

He was basically saying (and this is my interpretation based on a similar saying) that your journey to the best via the average often starts with a waste of money on a poor tool / poor tooling.

Yeah, Still confused...

 

[RaisedByWolves]

@RaisedByWolves

He was basically saying (and this is my interpretation based on a similar saying) that your journey to the best via the average often starts with a waste of money on a poor tool / poor tooling.

Yall are a wordy bunch.

We call it "Buy once, cry once".

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Yeah, Still confused...

These guys must have studied shake spear or something.

If their not careful they may use up all the words and have to run out for more.

 

[GrifterGuru]

Yall are a wordy bunch.

We call it "Buy once, cry once".

Not going to argue! Then again often use,one or two words where others use several, though we do have som "wordy" (as you put it) "phrases" or "sayings".

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Not going to argue! Then again, we use often use one or two words where others use several...

Language be like that doe, I work in a small city with lots of utes and immigrants so I get all sorts of languages on a daily basis. Conversing with people of a different culture sometimes comes down to point and grunt as accents and for the love of god....Pidgin English come into play.

One of our best mechanics is from Haiti, speaks French (primary language), English, pidgin and creole. When he gets on a roll I cant understand a word of his English.

Anyway, the tool post in question was a cheap buy to see if that style or post would be to my liking for short money vs buying the PeWe at 4x the cost and finding out that I dont care for the style.

It works, but just not for me or my expectations.

 

[Larry$]

I'm too lazy and always wanting to get it done so, 20 mounted tools and 3 floaters. Mostly Shars when they put them on sale.

 

[SouthernChap]

He was basically saying (and this is my interpretation based on a similar saying) that your journey to the best via the average often starts with a waste of money on a poor tool / poor tooling.

Not quite, I was humourously riffing on the saying: "the journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step" (although the most well-known user of that old Chinese proverb, was not a man I hold in particularly high esteem!).

I was suggesting that the first step to having a sufficient coverage of holders to go with a good quality Swiss Multi-Fix style toolholder is to say to yourself: "Fekk it, I want it, so I'm going to buy it" and to then show proper commitment to that reckless thought, by purchasing a PeWe set for €295.

Though, if you weren't keen on the above misquoting of that proverb, how about these:

"Faint heart never won fair tool holding"

or

"And gentlemen in England now with just a Dickson shall think their toolpost accursed that it is not Swiss, and hold their holders cheap while any speaks of the 40 positions their Multi-Fix will take"

Or finally (and in honour of the American fondness for the more prosaic turn of phrase):

"If at first you don't succeed, spend, spend and spend again"

Basically, I was admitting that I have little to no self-control when it comes to buying tooling, even if it might be tantamount close to putting lipstick on a pig.

 

[SouthernChap]

These guys must have studied shake spear or something.

If their not careful they may use up all the words and have to run out for more.

Many of us did, some of us were even odd enough to enjoy it!

As for running out of words, there's no need to worry about that; you lot will just keep making up new ones!

(and the more you pretend to be some 'simple talkin, good ol boy', the more 'English', I'll be; you can't kind a kidder )

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Many of us did, some of us were even odd enough to enjoy it!

As for running out of words, there's no need to worry about that; you lot will just keep making up new ones!

(and the more you pretend to be some 'simple talkin, good ol boy', the more 'English', I'll be; you can't kind a kidder )

Don't make me break out the Ebonics.

 

[verbotenwhisky]

Not quite, I was humourously riffing on the saying: "the journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step" (although the most well-known user of that old Chinese proverb, was not a man I hold in particularly high esteem!).

I was suggesting that the first step to having a sufficient coverage of holders to go with a good quality Swiss Multi-Fix style toolholder is to say to yourself: "Fekk it, I want it, so I'm going to buy it" and to then show proper commitment to that reckless thought, by purchasing a PeWe set for €295.

Though, if you weren't keen on the above misquoting of that proverb, how about these:

"Faint heart never won fair tool holding"

or

"And gentlemen in England now with just a Dickson shall think their toolpost accursed that it is not Swiss, and hold their holders cheap while any speaks of the 40 positions their Multi-Fix will take"

Or finally (and in honour of the American fondness for the more prosaic turn of phrase):

"If at first you don't succeed, spend, spend and spend again"

Basically, I was admitting that I have little to no self-control when it comes to buying tooling, even if it might be tantamount close to putting lipstick on a pig.

Man who fights with wife gets no peace at night..... That's actually a tool thing too....