Gay guy at Lowe's cut my wood wrong...

[Fender5 10+ year member]

the guy at home depot was off on my cuts, and it was the first time making my own box. had to do sanding on alot of the box edges

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

Home depor has a sign that sais no accurate cuts, lowes is probably the same. I just usually get the pre-cut pieces but they're more expensive unless you tell the cashier its 1 piece cut into 4.

 

[Bass911 10+ year member]

Lol. they have a sign that says no accurate cuts.

They can stick that sign up their azz. I don't mind it being a little off, but most of them are way off. How can you mark the same measurement twice and one is off by .75? .75 is a real big problem when building a box. It's because they hire unskilled losers that have no eye for detail. That's why the sign is up. My mom could do better than them.

 

[Synyster97XLT 10+ year member]

Understandable, but you can't learn if you don't do your own work...

True, true.

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

1st rule: DO THE CUTS YOURSELF

if it wont fit in your car, have them cut it in half (even that cut wasnt straight)

 

[Synyster97XLT 10+ year member]

the guy at home depot was off on my cuts, and it was the first time making my own box. had to do sanding on alot of the box edges

Yea, this is my first box. I freaked when I saw them. The port pieces were too long, the top and bottom boards were too long, and the cuts were not perpendicular to each other. I hade a cut that was like, probably, 83-85 degrees. I got home and I was floored.

 

[domllama 10+ year member]

ya they do raw cuts @ these places..better to take boards home and get them some place where precision is necessary, def not at these places - it's like taking your brand new car to best buy to have an alarm installed..' you just should have never had it done!' Good luck tho bro

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

When I'm designing my cut sheet, I just make it so I can basically cut the entire sheet in half, and that's the only cut I have them make. I add a few inches from where I need my actual cuts to be, so there's no chance there inaccuracy will cause problems for me...

Also the last time I went in, I helped the guy put the wood on the rack, then I went down and lined up the wood with the measuring tape, lol. I didn't even let the guy do it himself.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

i just throw the guy a Hamilton and tell him to take his time. $10 is easily worth 3 hours of my time trying to figure out how to make the thing fit together after its totally screwed up.

and plus, i live in an apartment without a good place to cut wood - so its not even a possibility for me at the moment to be able to do it. so i gotta make sure its done right the first time, and if the guy has some incentive, then its worth it to me.

i always have better luck at lowes than home depot - but its all about the actual guy who does the cutting, not the place that it gets done. just shoot the guy a tip - and you should have zero problems.

 

[Bullet03 10+ year member]

you must be dealing with a bunch of *******. i use to work at lowes...id just point at the sign that says "no precision cuts" and tell you to go fuck yourself.

this. except I work at lowes. even tho our saw is fairly accurate. we still tell all customers its not going to be perfect. its a rip saw.

 

[BassMechkanic 10+ year member]

i measure and mark the cuts my self and then watch them when they do it, if they are off - i make them redo it and waste a sheet of wood on them!

 

[JuicyJeff 10+ year member]

i just throw the guy a Hamilton and tell him to take his time. $10 is easily worth 3 hours of my time trying to figure out how to make the thing fit together after its totally screwed up.
and plus, i live in an apartment without a good place to cut wood - so its not even a possibility for me at the moment to be able to do it. so i gotta make sure its done right the first time, and if the guy has some incentive, then its worth it to me.

i always have better luck at lowes than home depot - but its all about the actual guy who does the cutting, not the place that it gets done. just shoot the guy a tip - and you should have zero problems.

Im about to try this.. Them cutting it would be 100% better better than me cutting it nowadays. I no longer have much faith in my carpentry skills. Took a year of it last year but quit it because i felt it was not worth my time getting certified. There aren't a lot of jobs in it anymore..

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

i measure and mark the cuts my self and then watch them when they do it, if they are off - i make them redo it and waste a sheet of wood on them!

ya good story man, i bet you do.

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

its always old dude working and they dont even want to cut the sheet in half to fit it in my car. i would not want them to be cutting the whole box out.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Uh DURRR...

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