I am making a pair of butterfly boxes for Christmas presents with inset clean-out doors on the backs.
While trimming the Cedar lumber, I had to make width cuts that resulted in narrow pieces of waste with varying thicknesses.
While fitting the clean-out inset doors, I found that I could use the varied width shims as spacers to adjust the gap around the doors.
I have measured each spacer with an 0 to 1" micrometer, (a vernier caliper would work too) and marked the thickness of each one with a Sharpy permanent marker. Each shim was a different thickness.
Now I have a great supply of marked thickness shims for my next inset door project.
Larry Jenkins
To try and fail is at least to learn. Not to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been..
