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[gfish]

"Remember, we're machinists. We can make anything. Except cabinets -- we make those too precise, so when the wood swells the doors won't open. But everything else."

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[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

There was a brilliant wood machinist named Tage Frid who built unbelievably beautiful things. I saw him speak one time at a demo thing and he was talking about how he'd made this spectacular three-legged table that was held together purely by machined grooves in the legs. He finished it and realized that while he could put together any two of the three pieces, it was physically impossible to actually hook all three together.