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I scroll past brass repair reels and videos (don't watch them) for the same reason that I scroll past tuba playing reels and videos. It's too much like work...

... but I can't help seeing portions of some of those repair videos, just like I can't help seeing small segments of boring and/or idiotic television programs which are on when I'm flipping through channels seeing if there's anything worth watching.

So many people do things (at least, when staging their repair videos) in methods-over-results (inefficient, if not ineffective) ways...
... and some of those ways are downright harmful...

... it makes me understand why there are people who insist on doing all of their own automobile repairs and why there are even others who are extremely reluctant to go seek medical attention.

I don’t really get the whole reels thing. Then again, there’s a lot about social media I don’t get.

How much damage can they do in such a short video?! Heh, heh…

If you want real damage, seems like you have to look at YouTube!

“I’m no expert at anything, so I’m not making any demonstration videos of anything.

MiBrassFS wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:38 am I don’t really get the whole reels thing. Then again, there’s a lot about social media I don’t get.

How much damage can they do in such a short video?! Heh, heh…

If you want real damage, seems like you have to look at YouTube!

“I’m no expert at anything, so I’m not making any demonstration videos of anything.

Just as with all of the carpentry and construction videos/reels (as well as videos of the trades - such as plumbing and electrical and hvac), when someone proudly puts up a reel for everyone to see, all of the don't-have-a--job/gig people (who are jealous of the reel-creators HAVING a building or repair gig) are going to criticize their reel while laying on a couch in their boxing shorts (in their 75-year-old mother's house)...
... so I guess I'm a little bit like those losers, except I'm keeping my mouth shut about specifics (and in my own paid-for house, and actually HAVE work to do), but most of the instrument repair reels that I see seem to be either ill-advised ways to do things or procedural methods (vs. goal-based methods) which tend to not be the quickest nor the most efficient ways to accomplish the solutions to the problems...and some of which cause harm.

bloke wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:20 am…all of the don't-have-a--job/gig people (who are jealous of the reel-creators HAVING a building or repair gig) are going to criticize their reel while laying on a couch in their boxing shorts (in their 75-year-old mother's house)...

See, shows what I know. I assumed the “don't-have-a--job/gig people” and the “reel-creators” were one-in-the-same…

Look at me! Learning stuff from a self-proclaimed “loser…” who’s actually not a loser!

...people showing how they frame houses, put soffits together, wire electrical boxes, repair plumbing, pour concrete, and all those sorts of things...
They video their jobs probably with hopes of creating more customers.

I watch some of those, because I learn things from them.

Mrs. bloke and I added on a 50 x 15 addition to our pole barn (where we do our work - as we built climate controlled rooms within it to do our work, when we first bought the property), whereas the addition is actually a shelter for animals that can go in and out of a pasture. It's pretty complex in it's features, and we built it well enough so as we didn't encounter any alignment problems with the original structure - though the land underneath the addition slopes in two directions. I didn't watch any pole barn videos, but simply studied the construction of the existing barn to understand how to add onto it. As far as lining up the addition with the original, being able to control things down to one or two thousandths of an inch in three dimensions (instruments) defined it as being pretty easy to keep discrepancies down to less than 1/8 of an inch from end to end when transferring those skills to macro. It's pretty nice, and features some lights, outlets, shelves, catch pens, windows - which line up with the existing windows in the building (so we can still see out), and a hayloft. Hey.. what we added on held up against a 100 mph straight line wind event. what we haven't finished on it is a faux Cedar front which we are fastening on to a treated plywood front. It's salvaged 8-in fence boards. It gives the building a look of a weathered barn, which offers "curb appeal", (if there's any such thing at the end of a 1300 ft long road into a property)...??

We also built an addition onto this house which is a log house, and the reason that we built it is because we couldn't find anyone else who knew how. (Of course, we didn't know how either.) There really aren't that many reels where people show off building log houses other than little rustic huts and things, so - again - I had to resort to studying how the rest of it was built. I did talk to some people who worked for the defunct company that built this house, and got a few other questions answered. It's tough to build a log house - whether rustic or Lincoln-logish - as is this house, because there is no such thing as roughing in or framing. The entire build is basically "furniture/trim", in that everything shows. I had never put in a wood floor before either, but decided that likelihood of me doing as good a job as the best jobs I've ever seen was fairly high, because I'm ridiculously picky, and I sort of suspected that my pickiness would trump my complete lack of experience. The floor is beautiful, and there are no places where it creaks.

Anyone can do a really superb job on anything, as long as they understand that 100% is the minimum score allowable... but it's also important to define and embrace which things one can control and which things one cannot control.

I believe I saw where you put up a nice building for yourself as well..

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRS:
There are more and more tools that seem to be available for sale claim to help with specific operations. I can look at a tool, imagine how it is supposed to be used, and just about immediately know whether or not it would help or simply be in the way, cost money, or maybe even offer an elevated risk for damage (LOL... though I suppose ALL tools offer an elevated risk for damage, don't they?)