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pat_moore•2d ago

I finally figured out why my drawer boxes were racking and it was the cheap slides

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brianm66•2d ago

Hot take: that counter guy in Tulsa told me to stop building drawers square, and he was wrong

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owens.anthony•2d ago

TIL my shop light was lying to me about every finish I sprayed

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claire_young76•3d ago

Wrote off biscuit joints as old-school until a face frame popped loose in my shop

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rowanhernandez•5d ago

Appreciation post: switching from yellow glue to polyurethane cut my sanding time way down

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max223•5d ago

Warning: my old shop mentor laughed at my sliding dovetail jig and he was dead wrong

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claire872•6d ago

TIL a customer's crooked wall cost me 3 days of building a cabinet that fit wrong

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ray_williams•6d ago

Pro tip: the $90 magnetic featherboard paid for itself after one close call on the router

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kim_ramirez3•7d ago

I finally looked up the actual drawer slide load rating and it's way lower than I thought

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nguyen.blake•7d ago

Walked into a 1920s bank turned woodshop in Waco and the old teller counter is their outfeed table

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troy_price•13d ago

Switched from pocket screws to a $9 dowel jig on face frames and my callbacks dropped to zero

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the_kelly•14d ago

I finally got the grain match right on a 12 foot walnut countertop after 3 failed glue ups

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the_hayden•14d ago

Showerthought: I used to eyeball every scribe cut till a trim guy in Billings showed me the compass trick

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cole_flores44•17d ago

Hand-cut 14 dovetails for a cherry dresser and the last pin split when I tapped it home

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caseythompson•18d ago

Hot take: your spray gun is fine, you just need to learn to thin your finish

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