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My hand-cut dovetail marathon on a small chest
I built a small chest and chose to hand-cut all the dovetails for the drawers. Rushing the first few meant they were loose, so I had to redo them, which added days to the work. How do you handle the urge to speed through tedious parts?
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oliviabarnes4d ago
Read an interview once with a furniture maker who said he sets a kitchen timer for small tasks. Like, he'll give himself twenty minutes just to mark out the lines on one corner, then he has to stop. It forces you to go step by step. I tried it when planing some boards last week and it worked. You stop fighting the clock and just focus on the one cut you're making right then.
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