Re:Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?
by UncleOxidant on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:25PM
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Cabinet making is a lost art. It used to be very common, but now most cabinetry is mass produced in factories so there aren't many people around who are skilled in the art.
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Re:Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?
by rdtwo on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:39PM
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It’s slow and inefficient without scale and tooling. Just like how most people don’t have custom cars because it’s too expensive
Re:Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?
by a2tech on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:41PM
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Cabinets are not almost exclusively made to order in factories. At least the ones that aren't picked up in a box at Lowes. We just had a new bathroom installed and each cabinet was hand made--in a factory settings of course, to our specifications.
Re:Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?
by conductr on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:33PM
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> hand made
It was most likely CNC made and hand assembled. The guy doing the assembly would have no clue what to do without the CNC’d parts. The guy designing the CAD files would have no clue how to assemble the CNC’d parts. Neither of them know how to install the cabinets in your bathroom. This used to all be done by the same guy.
Re:Why can't we build nice neighborhoods anymore?
by UncleOxidant on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:37PM
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A lot of them are picked up in a box at Lowes (or Depot or Ikea). Sure you can have custom ones made in a factory, but 60+ years ago most every carpenter worth his (well, they mostly were male then) salt knew how to make decent cabinets. I went to an estate sale a few years back where the deceased had been a cabinet maker - the cabinets and homemade furniture were amazing.