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Just hit 500 shoes shaped in a single month and it's making me rethink my whole process
I've been at this for 15 years and my usual count is around 350. This month, a big ranch in Bozeman needed a full herd done before a show, and I pushed hard to get it. The crazy part is, my wrist isn't killing me like it used to be when I did half that number. I switched to a different rounding hammer, the 16 oz. Cliff Carroll, about six months back and it's cut my shaping time per shoe way down. But now I'm looking at the pile of steel and wondering if speed is always good. Some of the old guys I learned from would say rushing a shape hurts the fit, but my clinch numbers are still tight. What's the real limit here before quality drops? Has anyone else pushed their personal count and noticed a change in their work?
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mason.julia19d ago
Wow, speed can be a trap...
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the_seth19d ago
Mason.julia, speed reminds me of that time I rushed a project and had to redo the whole thing.
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