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The kid at the lumber yard called my 2x4s "vintage" and I can't stop thinking about it
I was picking up a load of framing lumber in Fresno last Thursday and this 19 year old at the yard looked at my stack and asked if I was doing a "vintage" build because the boards had some wane on the edges. I laughed it off, but then I realized he's probably seen nothing but perfect kiln dried stuff his whole short career. Spent the drive back wondering if I'm just used to working around knots and twist because that's what we always got, or if culling good boards from a bad bunk is a skill guys aren't learning anymore. Do you all still hand pick every stick, or just take the unit and make it work?
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river_hall448d ago
Guess it's the same thing everywhere now, people just expect stuff to come out perfect so nobody learns how to deal with what's actually in front of them. You see it with food too, folks won't touch a weird looking tomato because they think the shiny ones at the store are the real thing. Half the skill in any trade is knowing how to work with what you got instead of waiting for perfect.
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