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My uncle told me to always cut my dados a hair wider than the plywood thickness
I was building a set of kitchen cabinets for a client in Springfield and ignored his advice, thinking my plywood was exactly 3/4 inch. The plywood swelled a bit in the shop humidity and I had to force every single shelf in, which cracked two of them. Do you guys add an extra 1/32nd or just trust the plywood specs?
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abby_morgan185mo ago
Springfield humidity is no joke.
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simonk985mo ago
I grew up in Mobile and spent a summer in Springfield. Is the humidity there really worse than the Gulf Coast? It felt pretty normal to me, just a regular hot summer. Maybe you just had a bad week. People talk about humidity like it's a contest sometimes. I remember walking around and it was fine, not some special kind of awful.
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amyh125mo ago
Mobile has that thick, salty air but Springfield just gets this heavy, still dampness that sits on you. It might not be a contest but @abby_morgan18 is right about it being no joke. The heat there gets trapped in a way that feels different from a coastal breeze, even if the numbers look the same. My clothes stuck to me the whole visit in a way they never did down south.
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