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Told a old timer I didn't need his rasp sharpening trick, but now I use it every day
He showed me how to hit the face of a worn rasp with a vinegar soak to bring the bite back, and I laughed it off. After I ruined a $60 rasp on a draft horse last fall I finally tried it and got three more months out of that same tool. Anybody else have a weird shop hack they fought against at first?
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murphy.abby22d ago
My grandfather had a saying he'd hit me with every time I'd get stubborn about something: "The old dog knows where the bone is buried." It took me about eight years of breaking tools and wasting money before I finally realized that most of these tricks aren't about being old school or stuck in the past. They're just solutions that have been tested over and over by people who couldn't afford to buy new everything. There's a reason my dad still sharpens his shovels with a file instead of buying a new one each season - it works and it's free. We all get humbled eventually when the alternative is spending more cash on something that could've been fixed with twenty minutes and a bit of salt.
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the_linda23d ago
Yeah and now I bet you tell every new guy that trick before they make the same mistake, right? Funny how we all have to learn the hard way that the old timers actually knew what they were talking about.
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Three garage doors and one very expensive lesson later, I finally learned to just listen the first time haha. Now I'm the one standing there nodding while the new guy insists he's got it figured out.
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