Relationship With the Materials
I think when you are leaning wood, like learning anything, you start out struggling. You have to begin with learning your materials and your tools as well as your techniques. You learn them and you accumulate a language. The more you speak that language, the better your use of the materials becomes.
There are lots of guys who use marking knives to draw their lines. They think leaving that line in there is a sign that the object is handmade. It is, but I just don’t like it; I use a pencil and erase the line so it’s not there. It’s just my taste.
Lots of choices that have to be made. You can’t help but change as you go along and learn the tools and what’s important and what’s not important.