Well said basher, thank you for have a calm and cool reply to this. It started as a simple question asked, and was given a simple answer. Sad it had to get blown out of proportion by one voice.
I agree about Ash how works, I also agree that when we are stating out, make things as simple and easy as possible to reduce the chances of failure. We can get fancy and complex later if we wish, but to make it hard to get materials, or results for a person just starting a new technique, is asking for problems.