That rounded corner on a clamshell box took me six hours to fix

I was finishing a custom clamshell box for a client last Monday and the corners just wouldn't line up no matter how I trimmed the board. It turned out my old binders board was warped from sitting in my garage too long, so every measurement was off by about two millimeters. Has anyone else had this happen with older board stock that just won't cooperate?

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betty_reed616d ago

My neighbor had the same trouble with plywood from his shed last month, it had absorbed moisture on one side and threw everything off a quarter inch. It's funny how old materials teach you that time messes with everything, not just your tools but the things you work with too. A two millimeter error on a corner is just reality telling you that nothing stays flat forever.

lily3946d ago

Yeah, tell me about it. @betty_reed61 I swear my workshop is held together with a combination of sheer stubbornness and old wood that's been "seasoned" by my mistakes just as much as the weather. I once built a whole bookshelf out of reclaimed lumber that looked like a Picasso painting from certain angles, not because I meant to but because everything warped a different way. Guess that's just my signature style now, a tribute to no material staying perfectly flat.