Tools question

[Rusty]

Should one buy or make there own tools. I keep hearing many different
arguments over this issue.

[LeapingLaughter(LL)]

93!

Well, according to book 4, you should make your own altar.

In general, self-made tools can have a greater connection to their
user, but their efficacy as tools is also limited by the creator's
craftmanship.

>From the moment I saw my dagger in the display case, I knew it was for
me, and I _know_ my skills at knife-making and metallurgy would
severely limit my success in attempting to create my own. I've had it
10 years, and am entirely happy with it. Robes, I can make (not much of
a seamstress, but hey, how complex is a robe?).

93, 93/93.

[LAUER_LEROY]

> Should one buy or make there own tools. I keep hearing many different
> arguments over this issue.

Yes, most certainly.

[Garo...@aol.com]

Yes to which? Buy, make or both?

[LAUER_LEROY]

Both.  Somewhere between scrabbling in the dirt for the materials to build the tools to build the other tools, and so forth, to searching through the dross of commercial weaponry for the Blade or Cup or Wand that speaks to you.  Some of us prefer to build our weapons, maybe because we like the process itself; others realize that they would rather have the weapon and use it than the experience of building one.  I have both.