What's worse than correcting for a mistake you made?

[Ed62]

Correcting for one you didn't make. I made a tenon jig, and checked everything out during building it. When I had it done, I put a drafting triangle on the table to check for a perfect 90. It was off a little! So I took it apart, and ripped just a shade off the back fence. Guess what! It's now off the other way.

Then I realized that I put the drafting triangle on the sliding miter table, which is slightly higher than the table itself. Now I had a real mistake to correct.

Ed

[cwsmith]

Thanks for the reminder.

"Been there, done that" as they say. Just a bit of saw dust, a scrap of tape or other sticky substance, knocks your measuring device out a bit and, unnoticed, one makes their own problems.

A lot to be said for "measure twice, cut once" With me, it's like measure again and again and then double check what you measured, and then keep your rabbit's foot handy, and your fingers and toes crossed too. I own more triangles and measuring devices than I do any other single tool type.

Thanks again,

CWS

[Knottscott]

Not correcting a mistake and regretting it for years to come isn't a very good option either!

[LCHIEN]

So what you are trying to say, is, I once thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.

[Ed62]

That's it in a nutshell.

Ed

[cabinetman]

I've made a habit of marking all cut parts. There's been too many times that parts went together that belonged to something else, or got taken apart needlessly. The mayhem starts when there's more than one job going on at once.

Drawer parts can get mixed up when the drawers are close to being square. Shelves can get mixed up with dividers and ends. So until all the machining gets applied, having the parts marked can help prevent using the wrong pieces.
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[sparkeyjames]

Whats worse is correcting for a mistake then making it again and not realizing it till final assembly.
By that time your trying to think about calling it a feature instead of a problem.