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sethc12•11h ago

Biscuit joints vs dowels for face frames, I'm done with dowels and here's why

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johnfoster•4d ago

Wrote off pocket screws as a hack move for 12 years, then a guy in Tulsa showed me his kitchen doors after 8 years

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the_val•5d ago

A finisher in Tulsa asked why my shelves were dead level, and it wrecked my whole setup

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rose_hart31•5d ago

A finish carpenter watched me hang a cabinet door for 30 seconds and said I was fighting myself

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sarah687•6d ago

PSA: spent 5 hours chasing a crooked drawer front on a cherry cabinet build in my Boise shop

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mason361•6d ago

Warning: I just counted 27 cabinets with doors hung upside down and it cost me two full days in Spokane

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lunashah•7d ago

Just realized I spent 12 years cutting dados the hard way before a guy in Cleveland showed me a $30 trick

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wrenstone•13d ago

My old boss swore by prefinished plywood, I fought it for years

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charlie_lane85•16d ago

Quarter-inch dowel pin alignment took me 6 hours, jig or no jig?

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ben436•17d ago

Saw a local shop's drawer fronts with 1/16" reveals and it hit different

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black.margaret•17d ago

A customer's one remark about drawer slides made me ditch soft-close entirely

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theawest•19d ago

Hit 500 drawer pulls installed last Thursday, my thumb knows it

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henry_kelly54•21d ago

The Tuesday that turned into a 14 hour nightmare in my shop

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margaret_bennett3•22d ago

Just realized I was measuring drawer fronts from the wrong face for 4 years

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sam530•25d ago

Why does nobody talk about cabinet gable boring jigs?

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