Measure Everything Three Times and Still.........

[George Summers]

goof. I was using biscuits to help align a mitered corner on a toy chest I'm making for grandson for Christmas. It is actually a blanket chest that he can keep til he gets married and then lay a cedar panel in the bottom. I checked the fence height, even took a #00 biscuit and laid it against the joint, marked both sides of the miter so the slots would match. And then forgot to reset my joiner from the last time I used it for #20 biscuits. Put two nice slots through the face of the front panel. Now its remill two boards, glue up a new front panel and mill it to size. Guess I'll have to measure four times in the future.

George

[Alan Turner]

George

I know that I have done the same thing myself, and so my sympathies are with you. "I hate it when I do that."
Alan

[Tyler Howell]

Geo,

I've cut it three times and it's still too short!

TJH

[Terry Quiram]

George

I did the same thing but on a smaller scale. I was making a box out of Cherry and cut through the miters. I hid them with vertical inlays of veneer banding. The corner pieces were to fix the gap after the stupid pine moved and the miters wouldn't close up. The triangles on the lid hid the inlays. This box is the one I practiced my technique. It is pine and I like it better than the Cherry one.

Terry

[David Perkins]

Terry that is the mark of a craftsman, someone who can make somthing positive out of somthing many would make negative. Great looking inlay on that box you should be verry proud.
David

[Alan Turner]

Terry
Looks like lemonade to me. Nice use of a variety of work arounds. Haven't we all done this form time to time in one form or another?
Alan.

[Jason Roehl]

I've said it before, I'll say it again, "There are no such things as flaws, only 'character' and 'design features.'" :D

[Byron Trantham]

I've said it before, I'll say it again, "There are no such things as flaws, only 'character' and 'design features.'" :D

Boy, is my stuff full of "character!" :p