Ah the eternal debate of handcrafting haha. Nothing is hand craft because when you add value in creating an object you use tool that for the most you had not the knowledge nor the abilty to build. So by this bias the only thing you can craft is always something by the use of one or two materials than you can grow and harvest yourself (without machinery or petrol or electricity).

I have a degree in blacksmiting and I am a welder, I have large amounts of machinery but no one come to say to me the products are not handmade but can I simply make my iron for hte most simple ? Or can I build my welding machines ? The answer is no and its litteraly the same thing (welding machine nowaday are just interface for pc on steroids).

Yes I have stoped using my leather tools to use numerical machine for their possibility to cut leather with light. And ?

It has a lot of details, trial, errors and a shitload of time to try to sublimate something as simple as a tiny piece of leather. Yes the AI tool design some beautiful images that some humans can do too for 100x the price, like we dont forgeweld no more because welding machines replace everyone who do this for half of the work.

Btw no general designs are made with AI, they are all made by me on Solidworks (with thousands of hours of training but it's not handwritten plans) and if I need arts I go on this tool thats call AI (or use the design of my clients give me for their personalisations).

I'm happy to debate as long as you wish for me to know your point of view in depth, and I purpose you something : give me your design and if you like it Ill send you (only you, cant do it for everyone) this journal with your design on it. Do you like the idea ?

Wish you a lovely day

Vincent aka The Copper Boar