leof26•4h ago

Update: Found 1950s trim cut by hand, now I'm thinking about the trade

I was helping a friend fix up an old house last week. We found some trim from the 1950s, all cut by hand. It got me thinking how we do things now. Today, we use power tools and get jobs done fast. But back then, if you made a wrong cut, you had to start over from scratch. I think that made carpenters more careful. What do you all think about how tools have changed our work?

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spencerr821h ago

Hold up, don't make the past seem too perfect. Those guys definitely had ways to hide a bad cut, like using glue or trimming it down. They were skilled, but not perfect, and waste was expensive. Today, power tools let us mess up faster, but we also have quick fixes like bondo. The tools changed, but the need to problem-solve stayed the same. If anything, we just have more options to cover our tracks now.