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Stopped by the old hardware store in my hometown and they still have that original, hand-written lumber grading chart from the 70s on the wall.
It got me thinking about how we used to learn the trade by looking at the actual grain and knots, not just scanning a barcode for the specs, so what's one old-school skill you're glad you picked up early?
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lucas_moore7mo ago
Miss that hands-on feel. The barcode tells you the grade, but it doesn't teach you how to see it.
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nora867mo ago
Yeah, I thought that too until I tried it.
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gibson.felix7mo ago
Totally get what you mean about the barcode not teaching you how to see. I felt the same way for the longest time. What changed for me was realizing the scanner just gives a number, but you still have to learn what that number means in your hand. It became a starting point, not the whole lesson. Now I use the grade it gives to check my own guess, which actually helped me learn faster.
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