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06-13-2015, 04:42 PM #1Senior Member
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Lets just inject the word Bespoke to further complicate things.
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06-13-2015, 06:32 PM #2Senior Member
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The best descriptive synonym I found for custom made is Made to Order. Doesn't sound as cool but is less confusing.
Nowhere in dictionaries have I found the words unique, handmade, quality or non production in the definition.
As a result of this discussion the next time I go to a fast food drive through I am going to ask for no pickles on my burger so I can tell everyone that I had a custom made burger for lunch!
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06-13-2015, 09:42 PM #3Senior Member
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No, you did not!
Originally Posted by 32t
The best descriptive synonym I found for custom made is Made to Order. Doesn't sound as cool but is less confusing.
Nowhere in dictionaries have I found the words unique, handmade, quality or non production in the definition.
As a result of this discussion the next time I go to a fast food drive through I am going to ask for no pickles on my burger so I can tell everyone that I had a custom made burger for lunch!
The burger was a mass produced pattie, you just left the pickles off!
Now, if you had instructed the baker to make a one off bun, in the shape of a pyramid for example, filled it with a one-off meat pattie made from divers and rarely encountered animals and cooked it on a red hot meteorite that had just landed on the great ice mass and flattened a polar bear in doing so then had it instantaneously sent to you via the Starship Enterprise's transporter, that would be one hell of a burger.
Pickles? Schmickles!
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06-13-2015, 10:13 PM #4Senior Member
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I wonder if we can get 20 pages on this subject matter????
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06-14-2015, 12:15 PM #5Senior Member
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Seems do-able... Originally Posted by Michael70
I wonder if we can get 20 pages on this subject matter????
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06-13-2015, 10:27 PM #6Senior Member
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I beg to differ. Originally Posted by Neil Miller
No, you did not!
The burger was a mass produced pattie, you just left the pickles off!
Now, if you had instructed the baker to make a one off bun, in the shape of a pyramid for example, filled it with a one-off meat pattie made from divers and rarely encountered animals and cooked it on a red hot meteorite that had just landed on the great ice mass and flattened a polar bear in doing so then had it instantaneously sent to you via the Starship Enterprise's transporter, that would be one hell of a burger.
Pickles? Schmickles!
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Neil
From Merriam Webster
Full Definition of CUSTOM-MADE
: made to individual specifications <custom–made clothing>
Synonymsbespoke (also bespoken), custom, customized, custom-tailored, made-to-order, tailored,tailor-made
Nowhere in any definition that I have found says that my order has to be one of a kind or doesn't use mass produced parts.
I could order 50 burgers with mass produced patties and buns, ketchup, mustard, lettuce but no pickles and they all would be custom made.
I used to think similar to you but the more I have looked I see that I was wrong.
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06-13-2015, 10:34 PM #7
The last time we went round and round with this and didn't resolve anything. Custom means different things to different folks. To me it means made to order simple as that. Whether it looks like another or not is immaterial. Whether it's unique or not is a quality that is part of the ordering process.
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06-14-2015, 12:12 PM #8Senior Member
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Substance - by George, you are correct sir!
Next time I have a burger, I am going to be just like you and leave the pickles...
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Neil
PS - I used to think like you, then I thunk again and found I was wrong....Substance likes this.
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06-14-2015, 08:45 PM #9Senior Member
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what did I say?? that was 32T Originally Posted by Neil Miller
Substance - by George, you are correct sir!
Next time I have a burger, I am going to be just like you and leave the pickles...
Regards,
Neil
PS - I used to think like you, then I thunk again and found I was wrong....Saved,
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06-14-2015, 09:04 PM #10Senior Member
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ok what is this classed as:
I ( the maker) take a piece of 25*6*100 bar with no design as in mind
heat & beat the steel to a shape that evolves as I go
then grind & finish this RSO into a razor
is this a custom, an artisan or just a fluke razor ??
it is a 1 off,
it may be similar to another somewhere (manly because nearly every razor shape has probably been made by now)
but is different to all others and unique.
since this is not hypothetical, this is it so far
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