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This may turn out to be somewhat of a long-winded story. Sorry in advance. Some of you may remember a product offered by Woodpeckers. It was a set of red cubby drawers, with the idea being to mount them on the unused underside of your work bench to hold small quantities of hardware. I bought two sets of the drawers, which gave me 12 drawers. Since I use the underside of my workbench to clamp items down to the top of the bench for planing, sanding, etc., I decided to build a small cabinet from some of the left over oak veneer plywood and solid red oak from the snack tray cabinet project I posted about back in January. Top, bottom, back, and two sides to be made from the scrap plywood, with three horizontal dividers to which I would mount four brackets each that the cubbies would slide in and out on. The dividers were made from 1/2" MDF. The dividers were set into grooves in the sides and back, with rabbet joints for the cabinet itself. And believe me, getting all that glued up at once was an exercise in a-holes and elbows. I finally got it all together, and got ready to paint it. I used copper colored hammered Rustoleum, just painting the outside, sides and top. I figured the back and bottom would not be seen, so no need to paint them. I didn't want to paint the inside, so after painstakingly masking and taping the front so as not to get any paint in there, I proceeded to paint my project. I put three coats on and let everything set for a couple of days to make sure the paint was cured and dry. The big reveal: I went down into my shop and pulled off the masking, got one of the drawers to put it in one of the mounting brackets, and it wouldn't fit the bracket. That was impossible. It had to fit, all that was a manufactured product that I had together many times to make sure my spacing between dividers was adequate. It was then that I realized the brackets were now on the top of the dividers instead of the bottom. Yes, I had inadvertently placed the cabinet upside on the bench instead of right side up, and had painted the bottom instead of the top. Hence the Idiot! tag on my post header. This goes back to an earlier post in a different thread about experience, and yet another definition of experience: Experience is what you get just after you really needed it. Once I get the top painted, the real top this time, I'll post some pics.
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