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A trim carpenter in Toledo showed me his drawer box jig and it bothered me for a week
Last Tuesday I was delivering some finished doors to a job site in Toledo and a trim carpenter named Ray waved me over to look at a drawer box jig he built out of scrap plywood and two $3 toggle clamps. He said he cuts all his boxes on it in under 4 minutes each, and then he just handed me the plans like it was nothing. Am I wrong for feeling weird that a guy I met once gave me a better shop tip than anything I paid for at the last trade show?
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elliot_king16d ago
Had a buddy who did finish work down in Dayton and a fella he barely knew from a supply house gave him a little jig for cutting crown returns, just handed it over in the parking lot. He used that thing for six years and it beat every fancy setup he ever bought. The paid stuff at trade shows is built to sell, not to work, so a lot of it is flash. Ray giving you those plans tells you he liked how you handled the doors and figured you'd use it. The real trick is passing it on when someone earns it, and now you know the shop tip came from a guy with skin in the game.
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