Building cabinets for my kitchen. I have all the sides, bottoms and stretchers cut for the carcasses on what we're calling "the pantry side" of the kitchen. Nine feet of cabinets, not quite floor to ceiling (wife wants to put baskets and stuff on top) and 12 inches deep. Today I rabbeted the sides and bottoms to accept the back panel.
I stood two sides up on either end of a bottom and …. huh?.... something doesn't look right….
When I drilled the shelf pin holes, I forgot to "bookmatch" the ends. I referenced the holes from one end on each piece, but neglected the "flip it over for the opposite end" part. So as far as the holes are concerned, I have all right sides (or all left sides). So now I have to redrill half of the sides and one side of each cabinet will have 2 sets of shelf pin holes.
Good thing these are just for me. It's a mistake I hope I remember so I don't do it again.
live and learn by mistakes the hard way is one way of walk thrugh life
but rarely make you rich :-(
I think we all have done it from time to time
to make woodworking skills is needed
to hide the mistakes so they can´t be seen only a master can do
and a master is just a woodworker that have made lots of mistakes and still do them …
I might not hide them. I can just go in a half inch or 3/4 and drill another row of holes in the correct locations!
They're pantry cabinets. Once the shelves are in and they're loaded with pantry stuff, the only person that will notice is me. The cabinets won't have glass doors and once we get the shelves where we want them we'll probably never even move them again and I won't have to see my double row.
I'f I'm feeling REAL ambitious, I'll double row BOTH sides. Then it would look intentional
..... nah…. I'll just redo the one side. If I was doing this for someone else, I'd recut the sides I screwed up, but it's just for me and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time
(making cabinets, that is….. screwing up I have experience at….)
I've done it too. I was out of time to make a new side so I cut a piece of prefinished 1/4 drilled the shelf pins in it to match, trimmed the shelves and glued the 1/4" in place ,worked like a charm .
Been there , done that.
Oh well
It's just holes !!!
Sometimes trying to COVER the mistake looks worse than just leaving it.
---------its not like you cut it off twice and its still too short ?-----------
Well, let's see; thinking back over mistakes I've made in over 40 years of woodworking that one also seems to be in the file drawer in my brain where I keep a record of my mistakes. Soooooo - been there done that one; hey, might just do it again. The main thing to prevent it is to mark clearly all parts and designate the orientation clearly and don't get in a big hurry. It also helps to check twice. Yep - I'll probably do it again one of these days. :-|
I've made more than my share mistakes and still do! You could cover the side with the holes in the wrong place with some paper-backed veneer and redrill holes in the right place. The veneer is thin enough to not change the dimensions of the case drastically and if you don't tell anyone, no one will notice
If you used white melamine for the boxes, white cabinet liner can be glued to cover the old holes. Also some HPL laminates have matching grain patterns to most printed melamines.
You can sometimes find self adhesive contact paper (shelf liner) that matches fairly close.
Cover the old, drill the new. No one will ever know.
Not sure if this applies but anyway word of warning to all.
You can make a tall cabinet that when you bring it into your kitchen it will not be able to be tipped up. It is surprising how much taller a cabinet is when 45 degred tipped
Here you want to laugh? I was building my Kitchen cabinets when my daughter was doing her homework, I was at the dining room table with her writing my measurements down when she asked for help. I stopped what I was doing and tried to help her, we were successful but the number we came up with stuck in my head and I inadvertently wrote it on my paperwork. A few hours later I went to see how the door looked since the glue had dried, the door was missing a 2" space on the top. I looked at my measurements again and couldn't figure out where I went wrong, until I started doing the math again, how could I make such a simple mistake? Because that was here answer not mine. I wish I could say this was the first time but I have done stuff like this before. Nobodys perfect, everybody makes mistakes, if you can laugh about them, (after the 5 minutes of cursing) it's all good.
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