I saw this thread a couple days ago, and I"v ebeen giving it a couple days of thought, and I think I just now came up with the succinct answer:
Woodworking lets me get what I want.
Just about anyone making videos about woodworking talk about “what I want” a lot. “I mixed a little bit of aniline dye into the stain, and that gave me the color I want.” “I’ll use the cove bit for the first pass, then use the roundover bit on the second pass, and that will give me the profile I want.”
Building things myself lets me get what I want, not settle for whatever someone else built down to a price.
I saw this thread a couple days ago, and I"v ebeen giving it a couple days of thought, and I think I just now came up with the succinct answer:
Woodworking lets me get what I want.
Just about anyone making videos about woodworking talk about “what I want” a lot. “I mixed a little bit of aniline dye into the stain, and that gave me the color I want.” “I’ll use the cove bit for the first pass, then use the roundover bit on the second pass, and that will give me the profile I want.”
Building things myself lets me get what I want, not settle for whatever someone else built down to a price.