Stopped using a level every 3 courses after watching an old timer on a job in Cleveland

Last month I was working alongside a guy who's been laying brick for 40 years and he showed me how he just eyeballs it with a string line and a trowel tap, now I only check every 6 courses and my walls come out straighter with less time wasted, anyone else ditch the level sometimes?

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the_kelly1mo agoMost Upvoted

40 years of brick laying makes you trust the tap for sure...

the_seth1mo ago

and that's how it goes with so many things, right? you get that deep trust from doing something a certain way for decades, then someone younger comes along and shows you a whole new way to do it and you're like wait, maybe i was missing something. it's like the older guy at my gym who's been doing the same curls since the 80s and won't even look at a kettlebell.