time vs dollars vs being a purist vs selling out

[John Wagenseil]

I am building a sailing ship model, have been stalled for awhile because I need about 2 dozen dead eyes.
I am holding a piece of walnut dowel in my hand, I just finished looking at a couple of internet hobby stores.
I can buy the dead eyes for under 5 dollars including shipping or I can make them for no dollar cost at all with the tools I own and the wood scraps I already have, but will have set up a couple of power tools and put in a couple hours of repetitive effort, then clean up. My hobby time does not have a monetary value, the choice is spending time at the work bench making parts or spending it on some other activity.
Or do I put it off for a couple more months until I am a prisoner of the weather, when going outside is miserable. Right now it is getting cold, but a walk in a park, or a road trip to see the sights is still relatively pleasant.
This is an internal debate with myself, I think I am going to put off making a decision and go fix dinner.

[Burning Beard]

This forum really needs a like button, lol.

Beard

[airdave]

If the question is "paper pure" as opposed to pooping out and buying the plastic or metal part,
I say try to stick with the paper pure approach.

But in this case, its spend time, effort and money producing a non-paper (wood) part
or
buy the non-paper (wood) part real cheap and spend the time putting more work into paper stuff...?
I say the latter sounds good to me.

Unless this isn't even a "paper" model?...then I don't care.
Why am I here?

But seriously, don't waste time on something if you can't get your head and heart into it
...especially if you can get the readymade parts cheap.

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by Burning Beard

This forum really needs a like button, lol.

Beard

Funny, I thought Dave would've posted this here. It's his after all, I just borrowed it.

When it comes to snippin' a few dozen deadeyes though ... I just empty the paper punch.

[sgoti]

Originally Posted by John Wagenseil

Right now it is getting cold, but a walk in a park, or a road trip to see the sights is still relatively pleasant.

^^^^ THIS FIRST.

You can either do this while you wait for the parts arrive in the mail, or wait for inclement weather.

(I have bee a victim of self-inflicted cabin fever in the past, I now realize the value in getting out while the opportunities are still there.)

[whulsey]

I like the go fix dinner solution, which I think its about time for me to do just that.

[Kevin WS]

Agree with dinner! And a drink!

[sreinmann]

Hubble got shelved for this exact same debate. All of those hand holds would be so easy ... as wire ... after I create a form tool ... but then it won't be paper ...

[sgoti]

Just had dinner, now a cuppa tea...

[Don Boose]

Of course, only you can determine how much (if any) pleasure you will derive from hand-crafting the deadeyes.

If pleasure = zero, then I suppose the scale tilts toward the after-market items.

In any event, I derived pleasure from reading your post and the replies.

Don