Mark E Smith
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OK going to tell on myself in an effort to teach why you always measure and layout all your pieces prior to cutting and assembly. In the shop and making some drawers for some existing cabinets. So I needed four drawer fronts, decided on some nice cedar, figured 1x8x8 piece should do the job just fine, cut to width 21 inch, no need for any other cuts, 8 inch height is perfect, simple easy, just cut, sand put some boiled linseed on it, what could be easier,and screw it onto the drawer, then I made the fatal mistake...thinking eight foot is plenty for four 21 inch fronts, I started my first cut a little down the board to get to a nice looking grain pattern (about 15 inch down the board to be exact) now did I measure to make sure I could still get 4 fronts ...no I did not, just started cutting and doing drawer fronts. Now for you guys that can do the math ahead of me, you know what happened...lol...yep got three perfect drawer fronts with nice matching grain patterns then ...opps ...you guessed it, board is two inches short for that last drawer front...aaaarrrgggg off to lowes to get another section of cedar 1x8 hopefully with some kind of grain pattern that may be close, or might have to just remake all the drawer fronts, think maybe I'll mark the cuts for all the drawer this time....lessen learned this time I hope..