Hot take: I've been cutting my board material backwards for like a year

So I was trimming some Davey board for a new project last week and my buddy Jeff came over to watch. He asked why I was measuring from the spine edge instead of the joint side. I told him that's just how I learned it from a YouTube video back in 2022. He looked at me funny and showed me how I was wasting like a quarter inch on every cut because of how the grain runs. Now I gotta go back and redo like 5 covers I had sitting around because they're all slightly off. Has anyone else had a dumb habit that took way too long to figure out?

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jamie7946d ago

Did you catch the mistake yourself eventually or did Jeff have to point it out? I spent six months using the wrong side of a ruler for measuring before someone told me I was off by an eighth every time. Drove me crazy fixing all those projects after that.

mary_kelly6d ago

Yeah @jamie794 I had a similar thing but with a tape measure - didn't realize I was reading the wrong side of the hook. What finally clicked for me was taking a photo of my work and comparing it side by side with a correct measurement until I saw the difference.