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Rant: the pocket screw jig crowd never learns to cut a real joint
I have been building face frames in my shop outside of Dayton for 22 years, and last month I had a kid fresh out of a woodworking program show me his "frameless" cabinet build where every joint was a pocket screw and glue, no mortise and tenon anywhere. He asked me why I still bother cutting real joinery when a $40 jig does the same thing in half the time, and I told him to come back in 5 years when those frames start racking under the weight of a granite countertop. Am I the only one who thinks we traded lasting work for speed and nobody wants to admit it?
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wyatt_chen862d ago
Pocket screws have been around for decades and plenty of those old shop cabinets are still holding up fine. Granite on a face frame is a whole different story though, that is real weight and the screws can pull. But a lot of the racking talk comes down to how the cabinet gets tied to the wall and the box, not just the frame joints. A kid with a jig and no clue will build a bad cabinet either way, same as a guy with a dovetail saw and no clue. Five years from now half those pocket screw builds will be fine and the other half would have failed with any joint.
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