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Old timer in Boise showed me why my taping knife angle was off
Spent years fighting bubbles and ridges on butt joints until a 60 year old taper watched me work for two minutes and pointed out I was holding the knife 10 degrees too flat. Has anyone else had some old pro fix a basic habit you never knew was broken?
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evan_morgan814mo ago
Man, I read somewhere that most drywall issues come from grip pressure and knife angle, not the mud itself. Makes sense when you think about it, we spend all this time on technique nobody ever actually teaches. The old dudes just have a way of seeing what you're doing wrong in about ten seconds flat.
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rubyj114mo ago
Nodding along @evan_morgan81, old dudes really do have that magical "it's the wrist angle, kid" sixth sense.
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anthony8834mo ago
Hear what you're saying, and it goes way beyond drywall. I notice this all the time with how people cook or even drive. Everyone's got some little habit they picked up years ago that's totally wrong, but nobody ever calls them out because it's just how they've always done it. That old timer seeing your wrist angle is the same thing as a mechanic watching you hold a wrench wrong or a cook seeing you chop an onion like a maniac. @rubyj11 is right about that sixth sense, it's just decades of watching people screw up the same small things over and over. Those little fixes stick with you forever though.
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