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Hit 500 bottle openers off one rail spike and I'm honestly weirdly proud of it
I started forging bottle openers out of old rail spikes back in March as a way to use up scraps and practice my twists, and last night the 500th one came off the anvil. I know it's just a pile of openers nobody asked for, but holding the first one next to the last one really shows how much cleaner my taper and punch work got over those months. What's the weirdest thing you've made a few hundred of just to drill a skill?
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terryrobinson9d ago
Made a run of 300 steak turners out of farrier rasps one winter before I'd call myself decent at anything. Here's where I'll push back on the drill idea though, because I don't think 500 openers taught you taper and punch, I think making a few and then looking hard at each one did. Doing the same hit 500 times mostly just grooves in whatever you're already doing, good or bad. See it all the time with guys who brag about volume but their 400th piece looks like their 5th. The real jump comes when you slow down, compare, and fix one thing at a time. So what actually changed between opener 1 and opener 500, and did you catch it while working or only after you lined them up?
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