Appreciation post: the finisher who told me my drawer fronts looked like a beaver chewed them

Xena Martinez · 2026-10-01T17:20:02.83269+00:00

I had a finisher named Ray look at a maple dresser I built back in March and he pointed at the bottom edge of a drawer front where my block plane had torn out the grain. He said "you're planing against the grain on figured stock, try a 50 degree frog or just scrape it" and I switched to a cabinet scraper for all my final passes after that. Has anyone else had a finisher or installer give it to you straight like that and it actually stuck with you?

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