Finally caught why my flue brushes kept fouling mid-job

Took me about 4 years and a customer's dad looking over my shoulder to figure it out. I was twisting the rods too much as I pushed them up. Guy just says "you're making a corkscrew, not a brush stroke." Watched him do one clean pass and sure enough the bristles weren't bunching up on themselves anymore. Anyone else have a moment where a random bystander just casually fixed your whole technique?

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4 Comments

mark4364h agoMost Upvoted

That backwards light trick saves so much frustration once you finally see it.

jana_jones23d ago

Man... I spent three hours once trying to thread a needle before someone pointed out I was holding the thread and needle backwards in the light. Felt like a real brain genius that day.

hall.joel23d ago

Read somewhere that the human eye struggles with contrast more than we think, especially as we get older.

the_alice23d ago

The backwards light thing is actually a real physics trick with how shadows work... @jana_jones you probably had the thread silhouette making the eye just give up entirely.