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time vs dollars vs being a purist vs selling out
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. |
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This forum really needs a like button, lol.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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I like the go fix dinner solution, which I think its about time for me to do just that.
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Agree with dinner! And a drink!
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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 ...
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Just had dinner, now a cuppa tea...
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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 |
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