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"Impressed" was probably a bad word choice on my part. As I said before, building a guitar is difficult and my congratulations go out to anyone who gets through the entire process and completes it - no matter what tools they use.
I just think it is more difficult to produce quality results with hand tools. For example, I have cut out binding channels both by hand and using LMI's jig. The results with the power tool jig were exponentially better than when I did it with hand tools. It was not as good as someone with experience but for me it was easier, quicker and had much better results.
Other examples could be thicknessing the top and back, making the bridge etc. etc.
The LMI catalog talks about Richard Schneider cutting out the binding channels with a gramil and chisels. To me that is awesome and I would love to see someone do that much more than I would like to see someone do the same thing with a router.
Just an observation, I don't have anything against power tools, except the noise and dust.
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