Ever think your work is sloppy or bad you have seen nothing.
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Joe S.
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Wow! At least it's on the back... I wonder what happened to make that much of a mess.
edstreet
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I think there was something on the back that they ran and had to cut the drawer to make clearance. I know the entire room was remodeled.
StephenM
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Poor shop, they must not own a router. They probably could have removed faster even with a 3" belt sander and a 60 grit belt. Heck, they could have run the vertical cuts and used a 1" chisel and it still would have been faster and neater.
glen r
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Good advertising for Lowes subtrades workmanship.
Rob73
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WoW! That's just atrocious.
Dan Masshardt
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It's almost hard to believe.
PTsideshow
Member
He didn't take it in to Lowes when they installed it, I sure they would have made him good on the bad item, but since most of the cabinets they sell are installs it could be from overseas and the company just using everything up to keep the profit up.
Since a lot of people Lowes and Home Despot use are handymen, no telling what they were thinking.
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Since a lot of people Lowes and Home Despot use are handymen, no telling what they were thinking.
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Unfortunately it looks like something my dad would do. He sees a problem, a solution, a method and bam he is done. It was probably a functional answer and the cuts to the drawer would not be seen in daily use. The fact that the answer lacks finesse or craftsman ship eludes him.
mdburn_em
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All I can say to that is wow.
Can't say I'd never do that on the back of a drawer. I never have but then I don't usually dovetail the back of drawers either, I usually use hidden screws because they're faster, easier and work just fine.
GaryMGg
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I'd have held back the last 10% until that was fixed to my satisfaction.
That's not even good enough to be called practice.
That's not even good enough to be called practice.
Your dad sounds a lot like me in that respect. I freely admit to being very uncaring about the back of something that is going to spend its life parked with its back against a wall. While that might bother some people, if it works I don't waste a lot of thought on how to make something that nobody ever sees pretty....strikes me as sort of like wallpapering the outhouse.
1080Wayne
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Smitty , the inference is that your bathrooms are unpainted drywall . I doubt that you would be here if that were the case ! Our outhouses were papered with tarpaper to reduce the drafts , with some of the less utilitarian high gloss catalog pages as decoration . Real comfort arrived when my father discovered that sitting on a sheet of polystyrene foam felt good on a cold winter day .
With regard to the usually unseen faces of items , people almost invariably pick up a S&P shaker or bud vase and immediately turn it over to look at the base . I`m sure they have no idea of what they are looking for , but I have adjusted my process to make sure they don`t see anything .
Actually, have lived in places served by both I am very well versed on the difference between "outhouse" and "bathroom" :biggrin::biggrin: and if I had meant bathroom that is what I would have said....the inference is your's not mine.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: I was born in a house that had no indoor plumbing, no electricity and no central heat. I later lived in a house that had indoor plumbing, electricity and central heat but also had an outhouse (or privy as my mother called it) - with one bathroom and 8 people in the house (when there was no company) we frequently "went outside" if the bathroom was busy.....
When I turn over a salt shaker, vase or something like that I'm usually looking for "dishwasher safe" or if it's hand made to see if it has the maker's name on it. But, those items are not pieces of furniture that are going to be shoved against the wall....
And incedently, if that drawer in the OP was in a piece of furniture that I made it would never show unless you took it out of the piece - it would be covered by the back when in place. I've never made a drawer like that but the outside of the back of drawers I have made do show where I used hidden screws to attach them and I don't lose any sleep over it - they'll last longer than I will.