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How /diy/ is your town/city/village?
I hear people having local {shops} to include pottery supply, miniature remote aircraft, fine woodworking, blacksmithing/general metal work/ferrier, art shops diverse enough to have wood carving stuff, leatherworking, ect, ect.
I'm fucking jealous. Locally i have... Ace hardware... trash-mart... and a farm/ranch supply store. Next town over has nothing but big box chinesium dealers. Best i could find for /diy/ quality was a "mercantile" store that had a tandy leather side job.
What happened to when the bigger a town got the better the stores got? Am i just fantasizing going to town and being able to buy best-in-class tools? I highly doubt I'll ever find some clothing boutique that actually makes its own clothes outside some snobby district in NYC. Tailor shops should simply rename to "makes repairs and might handfit a suit" shops.
I literally have to use the internet to order anything of acceptable quality. Its absolutely infuriating. I just needed a new sharpening stone for a chisel, everywhere i looked locally looked at me like i was explaining rocket science. These people have no idea what a whetstone is. So here i am waiting for the post to get here again before i can continue a project.
I almost thing this is primarily a USA problem. I've talked to a few people in Japan who seem to have no problem getting tools and odd ball things. Charcoal for polishing, some stupidly specialized chisel i can't pronounce, one guy was able to get powdered gold and silver like it was a grocery store staple....
Has our consumerist ways gotten this bad really?
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>>1170291
The bigger the better. You need to have enough niche people to support a niche product. If your city has 70000 inhabitants then its just impossible to support a specialised store...
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>>1170293
According to the last census there were just under 60k people living in the city, many more scattered around the villages and towns nearby.
Big agriculture place, so I obviously wasn't expecting miracles here. Figured it was big enough that hobby lobby wasn't the only art supply store in town, frankly calling them an art supply seems like an insult to real supply stores.
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>>1170291
The internet i would bet. Just bought 2x4 online for $1 more each than getting myself. Fuckit
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>>1170460
Does that count shipping eyeing a few things at some Pennsylvania based lumber yard but expect shipping to cost atleast $500 and probably require a forklift
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Try living in Australia
I can't get shit here.
Want a cheap carbon steel knife? No chance, purchase online and wait month. Amazon doesn't even have it listed. they only sell books. Amazon is useless here.
Fucking only shops for three towns over are just bunnings and kmart. No one has answers for you. k mart is shit house and you can get everything there on AliExpress for 2 bucks. Bunnings is good but everyone asks you why you need things, just tell me which fucking chizel is the shit one.
Either everything is the best of the best or you can't get it here and it sucks ass when you're on a budget.
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>>1171514
Australia seems like a terrible place in general to live, which is sad because it has potential to be one of the best.
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>>1171514
Probably bc you ironically live in one of the most naturally dangerous locations (wildlife, vegetation-wise) but are also the most nannied country in the world.
What happened to you guys? Can't even sharpen a piece of fucking metal or the cops come knocking. FFS
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