Old timer watched me cut a door slab and said one thing I still hear

Last month in Baltimore, I was trimming a solid core door for a reno and this retired carpenter, maybe 70, stood there watching me for a full minute before saying 'you're fighting the wood instead of reading it.' He showed me how to mark the hinge side with a knife line instead of a pencil and pull the saw at an angle, took me half the time after that. Anyone else had a stranger's two cents that actually fixed a bad habit on site?

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the_brian28d ago

Thirty years of pencil lines, and that knife trick changed everything.