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theaward•1d ago

Hot take: dovetails on shop cabinets are a waste of time, change my mind

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kim_patel89•1d ago

A finisher in Grand Rapids told me my door gaps looked like a roller coaster

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morgan_butler•2d ago

Question about the cabinet shop owner in Reno who told me to stop sanding past 180 on face frames

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olivia_carr7•2d ago

Struggled with scribing filler strips against a crooked wall until a 30 year guy in Akron showed me the hot glue trick

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taylorlewis•3d ago

Serious question, my old boss made us hand cut dovetails on every drawer, new shop uses a router jig and honestly the fit is tighter

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rose_grant78•3d ago

Why does nobody talk about scribing filler strips to the wall instead of the cabinet?

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loganbaker•5d ago

Watched a guy shim a whole cabinet run with cardboard at a Boise jobsite, and it still haunts me

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victor_carr25•9d ago

Warning: I built a cabinet door backwards last Tuesday and didn't notice till I hung it

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reese831•9d ago

Pro tip: I used to cut dadoes with a router jig and a prayer, now I stack two blades and check with a $12 caliper

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jason524•10d ago

Just realized I've built 47 drawer boxes this winter and still can't get the bottoms to stop rattling

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sean_foster99•12d ago

Spent 4 hours trying to figure out why my cabinet doors wouldn't sit flush, turned out to be one hinge plate screwed in 1/8 inch off

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vera_lewis•13d ago

TIL a $9 rubber coupler from Ace in Fresno fixed the face frame clamp that blew apart mid glue up

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skylerkelly•14d ago

Can we talk about clamping cauls? I wasted two years fighting bowed panels without them

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martin.angela•14d ago

Pro tip: a finisher in Charlotte told me to stop sanding past 180 on face frames, and my blotching problem went away

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hugo_jones•16d ago

Old timer at the lumber yard in Tulsa said my face frames were too wide, and he was right

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