make a perfect pie crust

I’ve made pie crust from scratch before, and in each case it tasted pretty good… in one case, exceptionally delicious! However, the dough always fights with me. It’s darn uncooperative stuff, and I usually end up with less crust than I need (not enough to flute the edges) or I have to do a sloppy “patch” job. So far, my crusts have never been beautiful.

My goal is to make a pie crust that mostly cooperates and doesn’t fall apart while I’m assembling pie.