Kev
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No - I don't mean they go together at the same time.
I'm talking about the country's of origin.
Background ...
With all the talk of high quality chisels on the forum of late, I decided to take out my Japanese chisels and just play with them for a bit ... later I felt like a beer and just happened to have some Sapporo silver bullets in the fridge. While drinking the tasty beverage, I started to ponder the correlation between the range and quality of beers that come from various countries in contrast with the range and quality of tools ... in my head the graphs started to overlay and I'm now certain that fine beer makers are also fine tool makers. Yes - with any broad pattern, there will be a few outliers ... but on the main I think my pattern holds well. In fact it holds right down to the unique characteristics of the beer and tools.
What's even more interesting is that countries that aren't know for their beer and certainly NOT know for their tools. Stopping short of deducing that where the most toilet seats are left up, the best tools are made - I'll just point out that Germany is known for it's beer, China and India are not. Australia makes some amazing boutique beers and has some brilliant hand crafted quality tool makers.
Here's the challenge for the festive break ...
Identify supporting or contradicting beer/tool correlations - or even identify the beer like/tool like pairs, e.g. ...
Germany -> Bosch = Becks
Mexico -> ??? = Corona
A hint on how to perform the analysis in the most effective way ...
Take a beer - drink it. Now think about where it came from and what tools are manufactured there. Easy!
Further note ...
I don't think this works for other forms of alcohol ... Wine - maybe not, spirits ... hmmm - maybe for heavy machinery! (Vodka).
Now, in the interest of statistical analysis, I'm going to go and have a few boutique Australian beers and ponder local tool makers ... but feel free to perform your own analysis using beer, whisky, bourbon, etc ... I can't do all the work [big grin]
Kev.
I'm talking about the country's of origin.
Background ...
With all the talk of high quality chisels on the forum of late, I decided to take out my Japanese chisels and just play with them for a bit ... later I felt like a beer and just happened to have some Sapporo silver bullets in the fridge. While drinking the tasty beverage, I started to ponder the correlation between the range and quality of beers that come from various countries in contrast with the range and quality of tools ... in my head the graphs started to overlay and I'm now certain that fine beer makers are also fine tool makers. Yes - with any broad pattern, there will be a few outliers ... but on the main I think my pattern holds well. In fact it holds right down to the unique characteristics of the beer and tools.
What's even more interesting is that countries that aren't know for their beer and certainly NOT know for their tools. Stopping short of deducing that where the most toilet seats are left up, the best tools are made - I'll just point out that Germany is known for it's beer, China and India are not. Australia makes some amazing boutique beers and has some brilliant hand crafted quality tool makers.
Here's the challenge for the festive break ...
Identify supporting or contradicting beer/tool correlations - or even identify the beer like/tool like pairs, e.g. ...
Germany -> Bosch = Becks
Mexico -> ??? = Corona
A hint on how to perform the analysis in the most effective way ...
Take a beer - drink it. Now think about where it came from and what tools are manufactured there. Easy!
Further note ...
I don't think this works for other forms of alcohol ... Wine - maybe not, spirits ... hmmm - maybe for heavy machinery! (Vodka).
Now, in the interest of statistical analysis, I'm going to go and have a few boutique Australian beers and ponder local tool makers ... but feel free to perform your own analysis using beer, whisky, bourbon, etc ... I can't do all the work [big grin]
Kev.
