Ken Fitzgerald
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I built my first piece of furniture a few years ago in the form of an oak sideboard for my wife. She was so impressed she deferred retiring that year and had me hire a contractor to build my shop. She continues to work to pay for that shop. The faceframe on the oakside board was done with half-lap joints.....strong but tedious and time consuming.
My BIL after seeing it....waited until PSI had a sale and bought and shipped to me PSI's version of the pocket screw kit. Today I tried it for the first time. The initial trial I wasn't impressed. I drilled the holes cross-grain and thus the screws were in endgrain.
So....as I was installing my dado set to make half-lap joints it dawned on this old geezer what he'd done wrong. I quickly cut two more pieces of scrap and drilled the holes in the endgrain and ran the screws into the cross-grain! Wow! I was impressed. I'm going to buy some more screws locally tomorrow if I can but....I had enough and quickly finished the faceframe on my cabinet!
My BIL is 'da man!
Boomer.......Thanks!
My BIL after seeing it....waited until PSI had a sale and bought and shipped to me PSI's version of the pocket screw kit. Today I tried it for the first time. The initial trial I wasn't impressed. I drilled the holes cross-grain and thus the screws were in endgrain.
So....as I was installing my dado set to make half-lap joints it dawned on this old geezer what he'd done wrong. I quickly cut two more pieces of scrap and drilled the holes in the endgrain and ran the screws into the cross-grain! Wow! I was impressed. I'm going to buy some more screws locally tomorrow if I can but....I had enough and quickly finished the faceframe on my cabinet!
My BIL is 'da man!
Boomer.......Thanks!