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Heard a guy at the lumberyard say something that stuck with me
Was picking up some cherry boards yesterday and overheard an older cabinetmaker tell his apprentice "your first five kitchens are all practice". Made me stop and think. I've been beating myself up over a couple of small gaps on a job last week where the client didn't even notice. Maybe I need to cut myself some slack and just keep building. Anybody else ever hear something simple that changed how you look at your work?
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patricia3171mo ago
Wait, only the first five? That means some of these guys are still learning after ten kitchens? Ngl that makes me feel better about my own early screw ups.
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park.abby1mo ago
Read somewhere that even master cabinetmakers still find mistakes in their own work years later. It's about getting better not perfect.
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robert_anderson6919d ago
Well that explains a lot actually. I've got a kitchen table my old man built back in the 80s and I swear there's a tiny gap in one of the dovetails. He'd probably tell me it's a "feature" now if I asked about it. I guess even the pros leave little reminders that they're human too. Makes me feel a lot better about my own crooked shelf project last summer.
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