Originally Posted by
steve garro
thanks for this post, Dave. i've been thinking about this stuff allot, but i could never express it as well as you just did. sooooo.......here's what i've been thinking about, and here's a picture to TRY to show what i mean - do people appreciate when something is NAILED? do people appreciate when they can just see that a feature is pulled off and the builder checked it off the list and moved on rather then just handjobbed it to death? i think about this allot esp. as a fillet brazing builder, where unlike TIG or lugs where it's hard to hide anything, a "builder" can lay a really sucky bird-poop braze and roast the tube and polish into something visually passable with some bondo and a good painter........so, i submit for your critique this dropout shot right out of the dunktank. how much work would you builders do before checking this off the list & moving on? thanks to all, esp. E-ritchey for a great thread! steve.
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