Plans That Actually Work Facebook ad: “Drawn is not the same as built.”

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Too many woodworking plans fall apart the moment you try to follow them. Here's what happens. Someone who understands geometry and someone who understands woodworking are not the same person. The plan looks immaculate. Proportions correct. Cut list adds up. Beautiful on a screen. Then real hands touch real wood. Grain runs the wrong way for that cut. Tolerance assumed machined lumber. Step 6 requires three hands. Nobody mentions this. Because nobody who drew the plan ever found out. And you don't just lose the wood. You lose the Saturday you cleared for it. The momentum that was building since step 1. And something quieter — the thought on the drive home that this probably just isn't for you. That thought is the expensive part. A bad plan put it there. And a bad plan is almost always a drawn plan. Ted McGrath is not that person. 25 years at a real bench. Member of the Architectural Woodwork Institute. 4,000 students. Every failure watched. Every fix written down. 16,000 plans — every one built before it reached anyone else. Not drawn. Built. One of his students lost his entire Saturday to a plan that used nominal lumber dimensions instead of actual milled sizes. A fraction of an inch. Not mentioned anywhere. Every cut wrong. He came back the following week. Finished the project. Came back the week after that too. That's what a plan that actually works produces. Not just a cabinet. A woodworker who shows up again. 54,000 woodworkers kept showing up. → migueltedswoodworking.com

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Drawn is not the same as built.

Too many woodworking plans look like they've never seen a bench. These 16,000 were. Every single one.