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TIL I was sanding plywood wrong for 5 years
An old timer in Denver watched me sand a cabinet face and said 'you're fighting the grain, not following it'. He showed me how much faster it goes with the direction of the wood instead of against it. Has anyone else had a basic technique click way later than it should have?
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wadebailey2mo ago
Oh man same! I cut crown molding backwards for years before someone corrected me.
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derek992mo ago
Cut crown molding backwards for years" - see that's wild to me @wadebailey because I bet your miters still looked better than half the new guys I see. The real trick nobody talks about is how the wall angle changes everything. Spring angle matters way more than people think.
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hernandez.brooke1mo agoTop Commenter
At my last job we had a guy who swore by flipping the crown upside down on the saw but still using the wrong spring angle for years lol @derek99. I gotta say though, I think a lot of those old school guys just have better hands than the rest of us, even if their method seems backwards. The spring angle thing is huge but I feel like people overthink it compared to just making sure your wall corners are actually square.
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