Knew a girl at work who had this happen with her Cuisinart. She was about to toss it and buy a new one but her roommate dug around online and found a replacement basket for like twenty five bucks. Thing arrived in two days and she said it fit perfectly even looked a little better than the original. She’s been using it for six months now no issues. Saved her a ton of money for sure.

Yeah the "clicked when he could see his whole week" thing hits hard. I tried three different habit tracker apps last month and they all had some stupid premium feature locked behind a paywall. @lucaslane's friend probably saved himself a headache - I ended up drawing a simple grid on my fridge whiteboard for the same reason. Sometimes the dumb simple stuff just works better.

Ditch the banjo and go back to hand taping, it's more consistent.

Have you heard about the whole "skookum" thing from the old AvE channel on YouTube? He talks about how tools from back then had way better steel and fitment because they weren't trying to cut every corner to make a profit. I read somewhere that old Stanley planes used a type of iron that's actually harder and takes a finer edge than most modern import stuff. Plus your grandpa's plane was probably tuned up by decades of use, so the sole is already flat and the mating surfaces have worn in perfect. Your new one likely came with a rough casting and a blade that wasn't properly heat treated. It's not just you that's the story for a lot of old tools... they were built to last and made with more hand work, not just churned out by the thousands.

Honestly I feel like everyone's overthinking this. Some shows are just fun to watch and then you move on, it doesn't have to be some deep thing. @amy53 mentioned a beautiful waste and yeah that's kinda the whole point, sometimes you just kick back and let the hours fly by.