Top 10 reasons NOT to purchase a ShopBot (humor)

[harryball]

I've only been a botter for a week now... but it occurs to me that there are plenty of reasons not to buy this machine...

Help me fill in the blanks, and maybe have a laugh at the same time...

10. With ShopBot, you might miss the hours it use to take in your shop cutting parts for a project.

9. All the ShopBot tech support and open discussion forums bog you down.

8. You'd rather keep all that junk you've not touched in 3 years than lose one set of storage shelves to make room for a ShopBot.

7. You've explained to your wife how complicated making bookshelves really is... and you don't want to take the risk of her seeing how easy the ShopBot does the job.

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1. Cutting by the numbers is for sissys! Real men use a handsaw.

Robert

[patricktoomey]

Handsaw?! Real men use chisels and mallets. Real-real men chew the parts out with their teeth.

[mikejohn]

Blue just does not go with my figure and complexion.
Laying out lettering for hand carving is a pleasure not to be easily done away with.
Repeating the same part 50 times, cutting by hand, makes you an expert on that part.

.............Mike

[rcnewcomb]

Because I want to cut 170 of these with a hand-held router:

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(We actually did make 170 of these last month)

[harryball]

If you only made 170... why on earth would you want a bot... a good man with a hammer and chisel could have knocked those out for you in say... 3 or 4 weeks.

Robert

[sawkerf]

You loose that intamacy you once had with a sheet of plywood since you no longer have to handle it 50 FREAKIN TIMES to get your cabinet parts.

[harryball]

LOL... I was just thinking yesterday how I missed lifting, turning, sliding, marking, measuring, cutting, remeasuring, recutting plywood. I might just have to go for some personal time today with a few sheets... nahhh.

Robert