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What you have said Peter in your first post is spot on, machinery does have its place for the grunt of milling long boards any smaller manageable pieces that’s 1 metre or less can easily be thicknessed with a scrub plane health permitting of course. I cannot blame those who use machinery because they have health problems eg bad backs, in fact let me rephrase that I cannot blame anyone using machinery full stop if that’s what they choose but I do have issues with machinists who laugh and ridicule those who choose to work with hand tools. What I dislike the most is those who use CNC machinery and then pass that work off as their own. But you should never consider using a lathe or a scroll saw as machine made because it isn’t, what ever you produce on those two machines is entirely by hand and many hand tool purists needs to understand that as well. if you use a jointer, thicknesser, tablesaw and then dovetail by hand I wouldn’t consider that to be handmade but turning stock on a lathe or scrolling I most definitely would for the obvious reasons your hands did it not the machine but your hands sculpted, shaped etc that piece.
Having said that no one should feel shamed resorting to machinery and no one should be ridiculed by using solely using hand tools. However I do feel that those woodworking machinists would if they could use hand tools more often if they had the skills to do so.