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In Reply to: RE: Of Course They Buzz - Made in China posted by Eli Duttman on June 24, 2016 at 13:23:34
That must be domestic market. I have never been pleasantly surprised by unsuspected quality coming from china. Mainly super-cheap pricing through inferior/substituted materials and and part/product counterfeiting. Apple manufacturing at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen is the exception where they seem to be able to simply abuse the human capital and maintain quality of product.
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You would think so, but the process of importing to the West filters out the worst of it. The chaff gets sold locally. Product quality in the domestic market is absolutely appalling, so bad even the Chinese don't want it. They pay a huge premium to get items from Taiwan, Japan and the West. In fact, the prices on Western-brand goods are 5-10 times what they cost in the States, and I'm certain at least 2/3 of those are fakes. I've been to China many times, and I could tell you much more about the exceedingly poor quality of Chinese products. Stainless silverware that rusts, blow dryers that catch fire, kitchen knives that bend like copper, 15A extension cords made from 30 gauge wire, etc., etc. Really, most Westerners don't know how good we've got it. The real surprise will come when China finally demolishes what remains of our industries, and the junk they live with now becomes all we can afford to buy. Very sad.
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I'm talking about work over huge amounts of time, not the current all too prevalent schlock.
Some of current Chinese craftspeople revere quality and a fabulous history. OTOH, far too many of today's business people, of just about every ethnicity, exhibit an attitude of all that traffic will bear and take the money and run. ;> (
Eli D.
"Some of current Chinese craftspeople revere quality and a fabulous history. "
That's the arts and crafts genre. The Cultural Revolution virtually wiped out all other individual skills. This was made clear to me when I visited a furniture store in Nanjing a number of years ago. The mantra of the sales staff was "No worries, everything is made by machine. We don't sell any junk made by hand." And that's just the outer layer. Need a plumber or electrician? Good luck, they apparently haven't taught those trades in China for decades. Everybody just wings it...
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I'm having difficulty tracking down a self taught sword smith whose work I previously encountered. The man communicates with Japanese masters. A jian (Chinese straight blade) he made was EXQUISITE.
World wide, we need to retain traditional skills. Yes, modern CNC equipment can do some terrific work. JMO, we need to add to the ways things get done. Augment, not discard, the traditional.
I've provided a link below to the 1st video of a set, where Keith Fenner repairs a badly damaged CNC machine using his remarkable know how and a K & T manual mill, etc. Those kind of skills can't be permitted to disappear.
Eli D.
"I'm having difficulty tracking down a self taught sword smith whose work I previously encountered."
Is this someone in China? I'll be glad to help if I can. My Mandarin makes the Chinese laugh, but others in my family are conversational.
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