Vent: That senior guy who told me to ditch my favorite chisel brand
I was at a job site in Portland last fall, working on a set of custom walnut shelves for a library. This old-timer, maybe 70 years old, walked up and watched me for a minute. Then he says "you spent good money on those chisels and they still chatter like a baby." He was right. I had been fighting with these high-end Japanese chisels for months. He pulled out a beat-up set of old two cherries he got from a garage sale for $30. He let me try them on a piece of white oak. The cut was smooth as glass, no cleanup needed. I asked him what I was doing wrong with mine. He said "nothing, you just bought hype instead of geometry." That stuck with me hard. Has anyone else had a veteran change your mind on a tool you swore by?