I was trimming a draft horse in Boise and the owner asked me why I kept stopping to check my rasp. That's when I realized I'd been using a dull one for months.

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Reminds me of a buddy who spent a whole season shoeing before he found his nippers were basically crushed. He just thought he was getting weaker. How do you not notice the tool itself is the problem? That slow creep of dullness tricks you into thinking your own technique is off. Makes you wonder what else we just get used to without questioning.

noah_black15d ago

Read an article about how our brains filter out constant background noise, like a fridge hum. The writer said the same thing happens with tools getting worse over time. You adjust your effort without even realizing it, blaming your own hands instead of the pliers. Kind of scary when you apply that to other parts of life.