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Like everything else, the creator of a tool tried to accomplish one or more goals: appeal to the masses with a generic/make a lot of people happy design or appeal to fewer with more highly refined designs that suit a particular need/use. Marketing 101.......
Sell few with higher prices or sell more with lower prices...enough to make your margin where you want it. But the appeal of individual makers, rather than mass producers is that despite the lower numbers sold , the end product is fulfilling a niche that could not otherwise be filled. It took many years of dream, design, refine and redefine to satisfy the artist/creator. You have a vision and put pencil to paper....or fingers to computer keyboard and some even listen to their intended audience for suggestions. It comes down to trying to please the most while still enjoying your passion and making a living at it. Special order designs are great, cost the end user more but take you away from your larger quantity production.......
I appreciate you're even thinking about it.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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