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Hot take: I stuck with my old hand-cut dovetails for years before trying a jig.
The jig got them done in 20 minutes flat, but the hand-cut ones from my first shop in Spokane just feel different. Anyone else have a method they know is slower but can't give up?
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willow2445mo ago
Yeah, I get that. I still hand-plane my table tops even though my drum sander is right there.
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park.tara5mo ago
Oh man, that reminds me of my buddy who builds guitars. He has this insane, like, three hour process to bind the edges by hand with a heat gun and old clamps. There's a machine that would do it perfect in minutes. He tried it once and said the binding looked "too dead," like it had no soul. Now he just blocks off a whole afternoon for it every time, says the slow way lets him feel the wood give in a little.
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