Read a book on old school carpentry that said the same thing about using a saw. The idea is to let the tool's weight and sharpness do the cutting, not your muscle. It's wild how much easier everything gets when you stop fighting your own tools lol.

Oh man, your aunt is totally right! I had the same issue for my backyard wedding. Honestly, we used a script font for our names with a really simple sans-serif for the details. It looked fancy because of the cursive, but the clean text kept it easy to read. It felt special without looking like a business letter.

Our old foreman in Dayton swore by those cheap test strips for years. I remember mixing coolant one afternoon and getting three different greens from the same bucket. The refractometer manual was just a blurry photocopy, so we all guessed at the line for a month. It's crazy how something so simple can trip up a whole shop once you're set in your ways.