Ray was right, water is too fast for most modern high carbon steels.

Yeah that's a solid move honestly. I used to keep my first job bagging groceries on there thinking it showed I started working early. Recruiters told me the same thing, nobody cares about jobs from 15 years ago unless they're super relevant. Take this with a grain of salt but I've seen way better callback rates since I trimmed down to just the last two or three gigs. Your resume is a marketing tool not a biography.

Totally agree with you about climb cutting being safer, I tried the backwards router bit thing once on a piece of bird's eye maple and it grabbed so bad I nearly lost a finger. A sharp spiral bit with a light final pass is honestly the only way I'll touch figured wood anymore, that "trick" is just asking for trouble in my book.

The old timers definitely knew what they were doing with mull and super cloth. I've used both side by side and honestly the difference is mostly just how it feels in your hands. For a normal book that gets read a few times and sits on a shelf, the cheap stuff holds up fine. People get too caught up in using the fanciest materials for everything. But I do think there's a place for the expensive stuff if you're making something that's gonna get handled a lot or passed around. For a personal journal or a book that stays on your shelf, save your money.

elliot_johnson it's actually wild how many people admit to skipping dialogue, but here's the thing nobody talks about - maybe the writing's the problem, not the reader. If a book can't hold your attention through the quiet moments, that's on the creators for not making those parts worth reading. I've put down plenty of "classic" runs where the action panels popped but the word bubbles felt like homework.