Just realized I was sanding my face frames all wrong for 6 years

I used to hand sand every face frame joint because I thought the orbital left too many swirls. Then I took a class at a Woodcraft in Phoenix last winter where the instructor showed me to use a 220 grit pad with a light touch and a vacuum attachment. Now I knock out a whole kitchen's worth of face frames in 90 minutes instead of 4 hours. Anyone else stubbornly do things the hard way for years before someone showed you a better method?

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phoenix33116d ago

You said "was anyone actually complaining about the quality before"... but were you ever unhappy with how long it took you to get them done?

reesemiller16d ago

I get what you're saying but honestly is it really that serious? Six years of sanding wrong and you're still making face frames so the end result was probably fine the whole time. I mean you said yourself you were getting them done in 4 hours before and now it's 90 minutes, but was anyone actually complaining about the quality before? Sometimes we get caught up in efficiency for the sake of efficiency. Not everything needs to be optimized to death, you know? If it worked and nobody noticed the difference, maybe you were just overthinking it.