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Really off my game today. Made a mess of things in the shop but managed to recover, reinforce and conceal the screw-up. Probably no one will ever know. Probably happens a lot out there.

tomsalwasser wrote:Really off my game today. Made a mess of things in the shop but managed to recover, reinforce and conceal the screw-up. Probably no one will ever know. Probably happens a lot out there.

Yep. The pros can recover from their mistakes and you won't see the mistake.

Even us hacks manage once in a while too!

tomsalwasser wrote:Really off my game today. Made a mess of things in the shop but managed to recover, reinforce and conceal the screw-up. Probably no one will ever know. Probably happens a lot out there.

OKAY. But what happened?

As for happening a lot out there; I don't know but it happens a lot right here. In fact, it happens a lot more here lately. I think it has something to do with aah...the heat.

Well I was doing a glue up (alone of course) on a chest of drawers. I use dowels now ever since I bought a dowelmax a while back. Love the dowelmax but it is not idiot proof. Things got out of hand trying to get all the dowels in all the holes all at the same time while clamping. I actually broke out the side of the dresser when a stretcher dropped out of one side but stayed in on the other.

The silver lining is being reminded that I came up with a better way to do the glue up a few dressers back but I just forgot to do it that way. I won't forget again. Also, the reinforcing that I did to correct the break point is actually a great thing to do on every dresser (I make a lot of this model dresser).

tomsalwasser wrote:Well I was doing a glue up (alone of course) on a chest of drawers. I use dowels now ever since I bought a dowelmax a while back. Love the dowelmax but it is not idiot proof. Things got out of hand trying to get all the dowels in all the holes all at the same time while clamping. I actually broke out the side of the dresser when a stretcher dropped out of one side but stayed in on the other.

The silver lining is being reminded that I came up with a better way to do the glue up a few dressers back but I just forgot to do it that way. I won't forget again. Also, the reinforcing that I did to correct the break point is actually a great thing to do on every dresser (I make a lot of this model dresser).

Pictures please. I have two dressers and a blanket chest to do repair work on.

The blanket chest has me concerned because it was a great grand mothers (a hand me down heirloom).

Dusty, this probably won't apply to your projects but here's the picture anyway. During glue-up one of the stretchers slipped out of one side but was firmly attached on the other side so gravity pulled it down, Blew out the inside of the carcase. I patched it good as new on the left. The dressers are on their sides for the picture. The wood strips make great drawer runners.

I exactly knew what you were talking about.
You got back up again. That's what matters.






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