Hot take: I wrecked a sheet of cherry plywood with one dumb move

Last Tuesday I was cutting a cabinet carcass on my table saw in the garage. Got distracted by my phone ringing and forgot to check my fence alignment before the cut. Ended up with a 3 foot piece that was 1/8 inch off on one side and totally ruined the whole sheet. That $120 mistake taught me to shut off my ringer and double check measurements every single time. Anyone else have a moment where a simple distraction cost them big?

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david_fisher373d ago

Did you at least save the good piece for drawer fronts?

michaelw263d ago

Did you at least save the good piece" - ha, @david_fisher37 you already know how this goes. I swear we all have that same internal debate every time we cut into a nice piece of wood. It's like that thing where people save the best part of a meal for last, or keep the fancy china in the cabinet for twenty years. Then you end up with a pile of scraps and nothing actually built. The good stuff sits there getting dusty while you use the mediocre pieces for everything. At some point you gotta just use the nice lumber or admit you're running a lumber museum.