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Thread: Why Darkside
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27th September 2006, 10:26 PM #1
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Why Darkside
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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27th September 2006, 10:27 PM #2
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27th September 2006, 10:37 PM #3
No! No! No! Stuart. It is Darth baby who is Lukies daddy
Last edited by Bob Willson; 27th September 2006 at 10:39 PM. Reason: Whoops, Got the spelling wrong.
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27th September 2006, 11:53 PM #4
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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28th September 2006, 09:11 AM #5
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...Cheers
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28th September 2006, 09:23 AM #6
... and I thought I had seen the light when I cut my first nicely-fitting dovetail :eek: :confused:
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28th September 2006, 09:30 AM #7
And you did Wendy
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28th September 2006, 09:41 AM #8
It is simply evil to use hand tools in favour of power tools.
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28th September 2006, 09:57 AM #9
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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28th September 2006, 09:57 AM #10
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The Emperor of the real Darkside
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28th September 2006, 10:05 AM #11
Darkside started from this thread
Outback called Derek Cohen 'Darth Cohen'. Check out this
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28th September 2006, 10:21 AM #12
Here is the one I was thinking of.
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28th September 2006, 10:38 AM #13
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.
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28th September 2006, 10:44 AM #14Well at least you guys think I cleaver, don't you?
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28th September 2006, 11:15 AM #15
Maybe I shouldn't have left school at year 10.
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