this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
253 points (99.6% liked)

Funny: Home of the Haha

7584 readers
881 users here now

Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.

Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.


Other Communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 10 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old

that's the joke

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t measure at all and just mark the piece to fit.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hard to do when the pieces weigh 300lb (136kg) each

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One might be surprised at how often this happens.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Isn't it pretty much the basis of joinery?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With traditional hand cut joinery, yes sometimes. The traditional method of cutting dovetails involves cutting the tails and then using the tails themselves to mark the pins. Mortise and tenon joints are usually laid out with the same marking gauge.

Machine cut joinery involves precision measurements.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yeah, was definitely thinking of hand cut joinery!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Weirdly dense positioning of the glory holes, but I get it, some workshops are smol.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Measure twice, cut wonke