Sleep on It

One allowance here buys 750,330 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 76 Carpenter tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, The Right Tool for the Job, returns 919,160 EXP for the same allowance, 23% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 652,790 EXP to 919,160 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 41%, so the wrong pick leaves 266,370 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Carpenter tradecraft leve returns 1,103,750 EXP per allowance, 20% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 74 rung behind tops out at 646,380 EXP.

At Lv 76 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 754,791 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,812,275 EXP, which puts this leve 1% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 4,589 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 4,589 gil.

Sandteak Spinning Wheel ×1 is a Lv 77 Carpenter recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 17 units of raw material and 42 crystals.

Handing that in returns 44,137 EXP and 270 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows, and the tree needs Carpenter and Goldsmith.