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A client in Denver once said my dovetails were 'too tight' and would split the wood.
He insisted on a 1/32 inch gap for seasonal movement, which felt wrong after my 10 years aiming for perfect seams. Has anyone else had a client challenge a fundamental technique like that?
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the_elizabeth4d ago
Forgetting why the rules exist is so real, I had a client ask for wobbly shelves once for "character".
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casey3934d ago
That line about aiming for perfect seams for ten years really hits home... it's like when you master something and then the real world tells you it's wrong. I see this all the time now, where people get so focused on the "right" way to do a thing that they forget why the rules exist in the first place... the client wasn't buying a showpiece, he was buying furniture for his Denver house that changes with the weather. Makes you question what you're really building for.
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