Mistakes in the shop

[mbcabinetmaker]

Hey that was right the first time I cut it wrong!:D

That was my exact thought while I was re-cutting some door rails today. I was setting up a new set of rail and style cutters and needed to modify my math by 1/8 inch. Problem was I added 1/8 instead of subtracting. 80 door rails were 1/4 inch to long when I began to assemble. At least I could cut them down. The very first 4 should have been 4 inches long. While re-cutting them I realized that I had miss read the stop tape this morning and had actually cut them wrong (3.75 inches) and tossed them and re-cut at 4 inches. Now 4 - .250 = 3.75 so they were actually right. Confused? Me to, it has been a long day.

[robinson46176]

Hey that was right the first time I cut it wrong!:p

That was my exact thought while I was re-cutting some door rails today. I was setting up a new set of rail and style cutters and needed to modify my math by 1/8 inch. Problem was I added 1/8 instead of subtracting. 80 door rails were 1/4 inch to long when I began to assemble. At least I could cut them down. The very first 4 should have been 4 inches long. While re-cutting them I realized that I had miss read the stop tape this morning and had actually cut them wrong (3.75 inches) and tossed them and re-cut at 4 inches. Now 4 - .250 = 3.75 so they were actually right. Confused? Me to, it has been a long day.

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I hate when that happens. I do a lot a installing of new cabinet hardware and it really makes me nervous knowing one wrong hole could cost me a wad of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Mark

[mbcabinetmaker]

I hate when that happens. I do a lot a installing of new cabinet hardware and it really makes me nervous knowing one wrong hole could cost me a wad of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Mark

I once drilled a high gloss laminate door on the wrong side. I was working 6 hrs from home and rushing to finish a job before grand opened the next morning. I forgave myself because it was 4:00 am and I had been there for 22 hrs straight.

[kalynzoo]

And then there was the time I was mounting hardware on a fully mirrored sliding closet door. The screw was just a fraction too long. The mirror was unforgiving.

[shipwright]

How many of us have made two right (left) hand sides for step stools, drawer sides, etc.? more than once? often?

Me too
Paul M

[cv3]

Trying to install a new bath room sink in to the hole I cut using the measurements I had written down from the old sink that was a1/2 bigger around. Talk about falling though your hole.

[cv3]

Trying to install a new bath room sink in to the hole I cut using the measurements I had written down from the old sink that was A 1/2" bigger around. Talk about falling though your hole.

[fjimp]

Trying to install a new bath room sink in to the hole I cut using the measurements I had written down from the old sink that was a1/2 bigger around. Talk about falling though your hole.

I still remember my wife watching me measure a sink hole from a counter top I had just removed and transfer the measurements to the new counter top. As I was preparing to cut the hole she suggested I just may want to measure the new sink first. She saved me dollars and a lot of blue air. Jim

[dlbristol]

I very carefully laid out the arms on a rocker I was making. Left to the left, right to the right, then carefully laying each arm down, I turned them over and glued the side assemblies on. As you guessed, when turned back over right side up, glue set and there to stay, I discovered the arms are on backwards. Right on left ect. I considered using this as "design opportunity" but realized quickly that with the model chair in the same room, someone might ask, so I cut them off and installed them correctly. Some where there is a post about how to get the arms off the sides.