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Why should we encourage more woodworkers to learn to make things in volume. One
reason is because few learn the basic techniques which can transform the
way they view woodworking.

What your shop needs is a
~Brain Blast~
No Kidding, not being clever, just read on....

A few of the Jig makers and tool makers of the late 18th Century
had a brain blast.

It seems nobody had the time...nobody.

Even though their
advanced methods were looked upon as foolishness, they forged ahead building precision machines.
Those caught up in the moment had little time or ambition to transform their slow, inconsistent,
ancient ways of making things by hand. In recent history, people still often have the desire to produce
things by hand, ignoring the quest for "economies of scale" ignoring the capability of "high volume" manufacturing.

You've seen it quite often......
The technical expertise in one generation can
become reversed in the next....

Even some experts in woodworking or who own fine machines lower their goals or
even lose interest. Many get discouraged or maybe they have been hard wired for only
making things by hand, or using only outdated techniques.  Few people for example know that most
table saws with a cast iron table can become a precision machine. Most table saws have two accurately
milled miter slots. These slots hold a cut through the blade uniform and straight. What some new table saw
owners don't realize is that these two slots enable a saw to become a precision tool. This means that an
ordinary table saw, with a few simple additions can become a high volume machine, making uniform
batches of wooden parts for assembly. Not to make harsh generalities, but this has always
been a basic, but apparently uncommon concept.

These miter slots mean that with the help of certain jigs and fixtures a saw can produce consistent,
uniform, even interchangeable parts. This is the mostly forgotten basics of mass production. Done properly,
with teamwork and certain other expertise this is what leads to an economy of scale, a high volume economy.
An economy which fills ocean liners with tradable goods begins with the unique but basic knowledge of how to manufacture interchangeable parts and precision tools.

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The Old Man said: "The peers of Rembrandt and Picasso who never were discovered
weren't color blind, but unaware of the wealth in combining ideas along with other shapes or colors.
Your peers Shawn, may be skilled, but are unaware of the wealth in combinations. People in general are
more uniform, while diversity enables more products, more choices, more economic assurance."

"In my days Shawn people put more effort into a show horse than into initiating a process resulting in
economic security. You need to read it, poke a stick at it, go ahead and you'll see where my talents
were honed from."

Shawn thanked the Old man for the book and when he read it; it was like a
wall of granite bricks falling on him. "It was like my ears were broken before. Machines
never looked the same again." Most people spend and spend, and they ignore the real
techniques that machines were built for. Read "The Northirst Student Overlooked"

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Some can do the work of two or more people, and its called a surplus.
Still others can build jigs and gauges and combined with certain machines, the possibilities
are infinite. This was the "high volume" revolution called mass production, an economy of scale,
and the economic wonder of ingenuity. Read Jigs and Gauges for Beginners.

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