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quinn603
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3h ago
Pro tip: spent 3 hours hunting a 1/16 inch gap in a face frame glue up, it was my own clamp pad
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ross.sean
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17h ago
Vent: a finisher at the Louisville show called my face frames flat, spent 3 weekends redoing my setup
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david_butler54
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3d ago
TIL the average custom cabinet shop throws away about 20% of its sheet goods, and I believe it after cleaning my own dumpster
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oscarmurphy
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5d ago
Dropped $65 on a used benchtop mortiser at a garage sale in Fresno and it paid for itself on one job
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terry_walker
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6d ago
Walked into a shop in Portland and saw 40 drawers labeled with blue tape, no pulls on any of them
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rowan_wilson40
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7d ago
Unpopular opinion: I lost 4 hours on a dovetail layout because I flipped one board end for end
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hugos67
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8d ago
Hit 300 drawers this year and the number that actually shocked me was 41
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kai564
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8d ago
Watched a guy in Tucson hang 14 cabinet doors in an hour while I was still shimming my first one
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emmap16
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9d ago
Am I the only one who thought pocket screws were cheating until a 78-year-old in Baltimore showed me his face frames?
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oscarmurphy
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14d ago
Dropped $340 on a drum sander for a single face frame job and it paid for itself in a week
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the_seth
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14d ago
Unpopular opinion: stop gluing up face frames with Titebond III, a failure at a client's house in Boise switched me over
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susan424
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14d ago
Found out a standard base cabinet wastes 6 inches behind the drawers, and I can't stop thinking about it
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charlie_kelly
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15d ago
Rookie move cost me 2 hours on a face frame last Thursday in the garage
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rowan593
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16d ago
Watched a $1,400 cherry island top crack in the truck bed on I-80 near Des Moines
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piper_lopez
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16d ago
Heard a guy at the lumber yard say he stopped using pocket screws on face frames, now I'm second guessing myself
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