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Unpopular opinion: Hand-cut dovetails are becoming a lost art
We're sacrificing craftsmanship for speed with all these pocket hole jigs.
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faithg6518d ago
Can I still be a real woodworker if my dovetails look like a toddler drew them?
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theaw651mo ago
My grandfather spent days teaching me to hand-cut dovetails. Now I see online tutorials where they slap a piece together with pocket holes in ten minutes. It makes me sad how much skill is being tossed aside. A hand-cut joint lasts generations, but I've seen pocket hole projects fall apart in a few years. The rush to finish fast is killing real woodworking. We're trading quality for convenience and it's a bad deal.
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