I feel like whoever made that saying never tried to make anything, tools can’t replace skill but bad tools can absoloutely make something many times harder than it needs to be which takes energy, time and motivation away from the fine detail that tends to make the biggest difference to quality.
Does that make him a poor craftsman or an extremely good craftsman
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Yes.
As the saying goes, that depends on whether or not he blames his tool.
Which in turn depends on which kind of tool we’re talking about, of course.
I feel like whoever made that saying never tried to make anything, tools can’t replace skill but bad tools can absoloutely make something many times harder than it needs to be which takes energy, time and motivation away from the fine detail that tends to make the biggest difference to quality.
A good craftsman knows the limits of his tools. A great craftsman knows how to make the tools necessary to surpass those limits.