Dan Gill
09-23-2004, 3:21 PM
By way of introduction:
I've been looking this site over for several months, and I want to thank all of you for great information.
I'm 46, married for almost 28 years to the same wonderful woman, with three kids, one boy in college (and married almost as young as I was), one boy a senior in high school, and one girl in the 6th grade. I am active (too active?) in my church here in Fort Worth, I'm a technical writer/project manager at my company, and I love woodworking.
I came to woodworking late in life, just a couple of years ago. I never took shop, as that was a very good place to be killed at my school. Seriously. My father-in-law helped me build built-in shelves and cabinets for a room addition a few years back, and I just kind of started in on my own after that. My shop is my garage (most of it). I really enjoy the wood. Right now, though, I'm getting tired of remodeling my kitchen.
That's where the stupid biscuit joiner tricks come in. Two days ago I was building the carcasse for one of the last cabinets to go in. With a raised panel for the end of the run. First I drilled my pocket holes, then measured for the biscuits for the bottom panel and shelf. Yep - you guessed it - I measured from the wrong end, so I have two extra sets of biscuit holes. Then I did something worse. I laid out one of the real slots and put it right through the cove of the raised panel. AAARRRRGGGHHH! Fortunately, it is fairly high on the panel. I planed a thin piece of oak and glued it into the slot. After cutting the excess off the inside and a little sanding work, you can barely see it from 5 feet. I'm going to bite my lip and not tell anyone to see if my mistakes are really as noticeable to everyone else as they are to me.
Sorry this went so long.
I've been looking this site over for several months, and I want to thank all of you for great information.
I'm 46, married for almost 28 years to the same wonderful woman, with three kids, one boy in college (and married almost as young as I was), one boy a senior in high school, and one girl in the 6th grade. I am active (too active?) in my church here in Fort Worth, I'm a technical writer/project manager at my company, and I love woodworking.
I came to woodworking late in life, just a couple of years ago. I never took shop, as that was a very good place to be killed at my school. Seriously. My father-in-law helped me build built-in shelves and cabinets for a room addition a few years back, and I just kind of started in on my own after that. My shop is my garage (most of it). I really enjoy the wood. Right now, though, I'm getting tired of remodeling my kitchen.
That's where the stupid biscuit joiner tricks come in. Two days ago I was building the carcasse for one of the last cabinets to go in. With a raised panel for the end of the run. First I drilled my pocket holes, then measured for the biscuits for the bottom panel and shelf. Yep - you guessed it - I measured from the wrong end, so I have two extra sets of biscuit holes. Then I did something worse. I laid out one of the real slots and put it right through the cove of the raised panel. AAARRRRGGGHHH! Fortunately, it is fairly high on the panel. I planed a thin piece of oak and glued it into the slot. After cutting the excess off the inside and a little sanding work, you can barely see it from 5 feet. I'm going to bite my lip and not tell anyone to see if my mistakes are really as noticeable to everyone else as they are to me.
Sorry this went so long.