Not everything has to be machine-perfect, NASA standards, to the millionth of an degree accurate. Take a table that’s 200 years old and flip it over. The bottom won’t be polished and smooth. It’ll be rough and almost corrugated from hand plane marks. The bottom doesn’t need to be perfect or pretty. The top, the “show surface” does … and it is.
Blacksmithing and Perfection
Blacksmithing and Perfection
Blacksmithing and Perfection
Not everything has to be machine-perfect, NASA standards, to the millionth of an degree accurate. Take a table that’s 200 years old and flip it over. The bottom won’t be polished and smooth. It’ll be rough and almost corrugated from hand plane marks. The bottom doesn’t need to be perfect or pretty. The top, the “show surface” does … and it is.