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c/cabinetmakers•coleman.jamiecoleman.jamie•1mo ago

Found out that over 60% of custom cabinet shops still use paper templates for complex cutouts.

Read it in a Fine Woodworking survey from last year, blew my mind that so many guys are still doing it the old way when a $200 digitizer would save them hours, anyone else stuck in the paper world?
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ninal91
ninal911mo ago
Gagged reading that... 60% is way higher than I would have guessed. I mean, I get it if you're a one-man band in a tiny shop and can't justify the spend, but for anyone doing more than a couple kitchens a month, that's just burning money in setup time alone. Must be a lot of guys out there who still swear by their hand-drawn patterns on old newspaper or something.
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mila_craig4
Isn't that basically leaving money on the table with all that extra time cutting? Old timers are probably just too stubborn to learn the software.
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