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Update: a 62 year old finish guy on my job in Fresno set me straight about caulk lines
Last week I was rushing a trim job in Fresno and a finish carpenter named Ray, been doing it 40 years, looked at my baseboard and said, "You're filling a gap you should have closed with the saw." I wanted to brush it off but he was right. I had maybe a 3/16 inch gap running along a wall that was out of plumb, and I was about to bury it in caulk instead of scribing the board. Back when I started 25 years ago, half the older guys would not touch a caulk tube on trim, they cut and fit until it sat tight. Now everything gets a fat bead and a wet finger. Ray pulled a block plane out of his pouch and showed me how fast a scribe really is, maybe two minutes per board. Jobs like this go smoother when you just slow down on the fit. Makes me wonder how much of my fast work is actually just hiding problems. Any of you still scribe your own base, or has caulk won at your company too?
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