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		ska on July 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand H... That's a pretty narrow specialty, and suspect it's not the kind of thing you easily jump to from general woodworking skills.

cperciva on July 31, 2022 [–]

Agreed that it's a narrow specialty. I think being a skilled (and careful!) woodworker is the primary prerequisite though; many luthiers have little or no musical talent (which may go partway to explaining why instruments are valued more on the quality of workmanship than the quality of sound they produce).

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