Nice troll; time to switch to digest mode. ;^)

At 10:35 PM 6/7/99 -0700, Jimmy Reina wrote:
> My reply to all of my students and all of the Normbashers is "This guy
> has done more to advance woodworking as the wonderful pastime that it is
> than anybody else, and I applaud him for it.

You are absolutely right. NYW got me interested (again) in woodworking.
Sure, I figured I needed to "machine" every stick and so bought a few
machines. But now I'm assembling a set of woodie dado planes (OT content
and drive-by WTB). Why? two reasons: (1) quiet and speed. I took Marc
Adams' dovetail class because I realized that the time to set up a routah
template was probably not worth it. Besides, the cost of the class was
about a quarter of what a super-whoopee do-all jig would have cost me. But
it was Norm who got me interestd in making things that require dovetails in
the first place.

Roy had the opposite effect. When I first watched, I was repelled by the
amount of effort that hand tools obviously required. Why go through that
when one has electricity? Now I enjoy both shows. I shake my head at Norm's
obsession with power tools; I wish he'd learn to use and appreciate hand
tools. But there are still tricks and techniques to learn that can be
executed with either hand or power tools.

BTW, I wonder how many buyers of IT, LN, Hock, or HT products migrated from
power to hand. I suspect that Pete, Tom, Ron, Mike, and lots of others owe
Norm a small debt of gratitude for creating customers who started out on
the dark side of the force but eventually saw the light.

Steve Jones
unrepentant in Kokomo IN