It’s easy to convince yourself that you need a $1,500 Festool miter saw from Germany to build your next woodworking project. You tell yourself it’s going to make the most precise cuts. It’s going to save time. It’ll make the end product the most polished. And you’re probably right.
It’s easy to get excited and invested in the tools and gadgets of the trade. Yet too often we get so focused on picking the perfect tools that we neglect the work required to put those tools to good use.
A great tool can help you make the cuts 20 or 30% better, but planning where to put those cuts is the harder, less exciting part of the work that will end up mattering in the end.