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Why does nobody talk about grain matching when they show off walnut builds?
I was at the Midwest Woodworking Show in Des Moines last month and stood in front of two walnut cabinets for ten minutes. One had a bookmatched door panel that looked like a single slice of wood. The other had grain running every which way, and the maker had a blue ribbon on it. I asked him about it and he said matching grain is 'a crutch for people who can't pick boards.' Half the guys around him nodded, and the other half just walked off. So which is it, is grain matching real craft or just fussing over something nobody notices once the doors are hung?
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zarat373d ago
Hold on, he actually said matching grain is "a crutch for people who can't pick boards"? That is wild. Picking good boards and then lining them up so the figure flows across a panel are two totally different skills, and doing both is the whole point. A bookmatched door that looks like one slice of wood takes real planning, you can't just grab any two boards off the rack and hope. So the guys nodding along, are they nodding because they agree or because they don't want to admit they never learned how to do it?
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