I have my thoughts, but I'd love to hear yours!!!
Ok, fair enough!
I've followed NYCCNC for a lot of years. He started out in his apartment with a very small machine but he was able to get vendors to support his habit well enough to move to some very nice machines. I'm not even sure how he pulled it off but he has done very well, well enough in fact to own a Haas VMC that probably cost $80,000-$100,000 depending on what he got with it when he took delivery.
I guess the bottom line is this, he loves what he is doing, he's got people to support his [habit, business, hobby] as it has been all of those things and now he owns a pretty nicely equipped machine shop!
If all that makes him happy then I am happy for him as well! Is there any reason for me to diss him in any way because he is not doing just manual work? No I don't see any point in that, let him do what he does and let each one of us excel at what we do regardless of the cost of our machinery or the comlexity of our projects.
If our happiness depends on being the guy with the most expensive tooling then someday we will discover someone else has more modern or costly tooling than we do, bummer.
Mine are paid for!
Happy hobbies everyone.
Dave C.
I learn something new every day! Problem is I forget two.