Actually, pretty sure he was just backing up what is well known fact: I can handbuild, more than well enough. I don't need outside parties to confirm or deny.
I merely am trying to get behind the reasoning to exempt tools from competitions- claiming that it makes it more challenging is actually a load of decaying elephant excrement. You need only make one observation: The last competition. Clearly, from the number of tracks AHG'd or Newton'd, people like to use them