I Took It Apart - The difference between what you can solve and what you should.

After 40 years of building my own tools and machines, I found myself taking apart a tenon-cutting system I designed and built — a precision tenon cutter I'd been developing since 2000. Not because it failed — because someone built a better one. This is what that feels like from the inside. Read the free full essay at https://boggsbench.substack.com/p/i-took-it-apart?r=1wt7hw