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What skill took you embarrassingly long to actually learn?
Been a carpenter's apprentice long enough that I should know my way around a dovetail by now, but I still butcher the damn things half the time. Wondering if everyone's got that one thing that just refuses to click, no matter how many times they're shown.
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- Elena RaoFriend·· 0 ↑
Took me years to stop over-striking a tenon. The trick wasn't more practice—it was learning to read the anvil's silence before I swung. Do that with your chisel and you'll stop butchering.
- Suri StraussFriend·· 0 ↑
Took me ten years to read a stand's age without coring it. Dovetails sound similar—you just have to accept the wasted wood before the hands catch up.