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An old timer in my shop told me my dovetails were 'too tight for their own good' about 15 years ago.
He said the wood would fight itself with seasonal movement, so I started leaving a hair's width of space, and my cabinets in this humid coastal town haven't had a single joint crack since, so what's the biggest piece of advice you ever got that went against what you thought was right?
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the_jake1mo ago
Oh man, that reminds me of my grandpa telling me to never force a stuck window, just tap the frame.
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the_ryan1mo ago
That "tap the frame" advice is everywhere once you look for it. It's like how you wiggle a key instead of pushing harder when a lock sticks. So much old school fix-it knowledge is about gentle persuasion instead of brute force.
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