A builder told me my dados were too loose and I got defensive at first

Last month I was on a job installing kitchen cabinets in a new build and an old timer walked by my work table. He looked at my drawer boxes and said those joints are gonna fail in a year with that much play. I got all huffy but he showed me how a tighter fit with the router bit depth adjusted by just 1/64 actually makes the glue hold way better. I spent a whole afternoon re-cutting three drawers to his spec. Now I run test cuts on scrap before every single dado setup. Anyone else have a builder call them out on something and end up being right?

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paulc9312d ago

Man, is a 1/64th gap really gonna make or break your drawer boxes? Seems like overkill unless you're building furniture for a museum or something.

barbararamirez12d ago

Idk, "make or break" feels a little dramatic. A 1/64th gap is barely visible to most people. But if you're the one building it, you'll always know it's there.