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bruno
@bruno

I think where I wanna draw the line on my ~maker journey~ is I don't wanna buy a dremel. I just... I just don't want to become a dremel person. I feel like that way really lies madness. First of all no handheld tool should have that much moment of inertia going around, it's just unnatural. Second of all you can't justify, like, what even is a dremel? Oh a "rotary tool", okay, cool, you literally just called it thing what goes spin. That's not a real concept. That's nothing. What is the dremel intended to do? It's everyhing. It's everything and nothing. Chaos. Madness. I won't fall for it.


EarthShaker
@EarthShaker

The Dremel is a tool that takes the place of a dozen other dedicated tools and does all of their jobs kind of badly, but well enough to get by. And takes up way less space. The Dremel is the apartment-dwelling craft person's friend.


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in reply to @bruno's post:

for real- I've used a Dremel a few times and it's like, okay? it can kinda do lots of things but nothing particularly well.

also it is fucking terrifying to use. No emergency stop- you drop that thing and it's going to continue to whizz at whatever insane speed and lash out at you like an angry python.
there's a grip that lets you hold it like a pencil- which makes some kind of ergonomic sense- but also positions the whirling sharpened blades a centimetre or so away from your fingertips. and also very far away from the off switch.

everything about it screams "don't give a fuck about safety DIY dad".

The Dremel is the kind of power tool that posts memes about workshy millennials on facebook and you avoid talking to at family gatherings because they just love to talk about diversity.