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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.rec.wood
Subject: Re: The Sears Philosophy, My View
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 13:38:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 13:38:17 1985
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>With all of this dicussion about Sears' no questions asked, replacement
>policy on their Craftsman tools; nothing has been said about the wastefulness
>of this.
>
>I prefer (after learning the hard way by buying lots of Sears tools) that
>buying a good quality tool (or anything) is ALWAYS cheaper in the long run.
>Not to mention that you have the pleasure of using that tool (or whatever)
>throughout its life; which is often longer than the owner's.
>
>Buy less of better quality.  I haven't regreted it once.  
>

Thank you Barry, for saying so eloquently exactly what I was trying to get
across!  This goes for many many things, not just woodworking tools.  It even
goes for your own efforts as well - if you think of your own work as throw-
away, it certainly will be that quality.  This is an attitudinal issue, and is
at the heart of what I call "craftsmanship" - not to be confused with those
who put out trash and, in a fit of Orwellian doublespeak, name it what it
isn't!

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.
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>barry steel
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>"He has many knives, none of them sharp."  -- ancient Chinese saying