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PSA: I finally trimmed my 100th dovetail joint by hand and stopped caring about perfect gaps
After hitting 100 hand-cut dovetails last Saturday I realized the tiny gaps I used to stress over actually give the piece character and nobody notices them but me, has anyone else found that chasing perfection just slows you down?
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burns.richard3mo ago
My 50th joint still looks like it was cut by a blind squirrel.
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anna5673mo ago
Oh man, @burns.richard, that's rough but I totally get it. Practice is never a straight line, some days you're just fighting the wood. I think it's more about the feel than the look anyway, you know? A clean cut is nice but a tight smoke is what matters. Keep at it and the squirrel will find its eyes eventually.
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