Carpentry Stall Out...any ideas?

[Edie Brickell]

Current Carpentry skill of 64.0, trying to make wooden shields like the guide says for skill gain at this point. Problem is I've made at least 50 or 60 without a stich of gain. Has anyone else experienced severe stall-out for carpentry at this point? Thing is I'm not even making shields 100% of the time, I fail fairly frequently, so I'd expect reasonable gains given this. Anyone got any ideas how to break up the log jam (no pun intended) so I can push foward in developping this character?

[grepler]

While my carpenter didnt have this problem in that range I have been making a lot of new toons lately. Ive noticed the same type of problem on each one of them very frequently so I think its part of the game mechanics. Once it starts going again tho I can normally expect anywhere from .2-2.0 gain very fast.

[Edie Brickell]

Apparently you're right, I've gained .3 since you wrote that, looks like the log jam is moving down stream again...