By the time that this objet trouvé supply is exhausted, toolmakers know what the most effective shape is, from having recycled some lost handaxes.
On what basis should we accept that primates really are different from these hominid toolmakers in this regard?
So the product of this delay comes together with this expectation and divides the creative process in two parts, tool and its use, often even in person, toolmaker and user.
The underlying time structure is such that the toolmaker refrains from direct production, scheduling it for later, perhaps in the hope of being more effective in the future.
Reports appear in the press of a skilled toolmaker working on a milk round.
I went to see the toolmakers who are making the accurate tools in order that the machines can be built.
In my opinion, the apprenticeship period in many cases is too long, except in the skilled trades such as toolmakers.
I think of a toolmaker who lives in my borough who has had two major redundancies in the last eight years.
