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  1. 27th September 2006, 10:26 PM #1
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    I understand that users showing a preference for hand tools are known as "Neanders" or Darksiders. But why:confused:
    Okay, it supposedly suggests a return to an earlier primitive time. A Dark Age.
    But, isn't it more logical to think of power tools as being the dark side? The desire for ever bigger, more numerous or more powerful tools?
    Noisy tools that disrupt the peace and calm of the workshop. The embodiment of succumbing to that desire for power, in its woodworking manifestations.
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    No! No! No! Stuart. It is Darth baby who is Lukies daddy
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    I know, but the Emperor looks so much more like a darkside woodworker.

    The quote is pure Vader (as is my byline "If you only knew the power of the darkside" )
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    My, more benign, take on it SD is that it has to do with how many electrons you use not whether they have some sort of occult pack of devil worshippers (although I could sometimes contemplate a Faustian pact whenever I am trying to do perfect mitred dovetails:eek: ).
    Hand tool users are so dedicated to not using electricity that they don't even have electric lights in their shed - hence they are always in the dark...
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    ... and I thought I had seen the light when I cut my first nicely-fitting dovetail :eek: :confused:
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    It is simply evil to use hand tools in favour of power tools.

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    This topic has been discussed before. Do a search

    OK, Derek was to blame. He was always trying to tempt people to switch off their machines and pick up a hand plane, so someone called him Darth Derek (Col I think) and it grew from there.
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    The Emperor of the real Darkside
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    Darkside started from this thread
    Outback called Derek Cohen 'Darth Cohen'. Check out this
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    Here is the one I was thinking of.
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    And here all these years I've been thinking I was so cleaver coming up with the Darkside thing and it was Derek all the time.

    Well at least you guys think I cleaver, don't you?
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    Well at least you guys think I cleaver, don't you?
    Sure you cleaver. Whatever that is. Is it Scottish?
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