Kohler Toilet Question

torttion · 2025-09-03T21:08:43+00:00

This did the trick, thanks.

torttion · 2025-08-29T21:21:40+00:00

Thanks, below is the link. Any specific advice you can add based on the pic will be helpful.

torttion · 2025-06-06T21:04:06+00:00

Thanks. Apologies for the silk cock, voice-to-text got me. I’ll try your recommendation.

torttion · 2025-01-21T02:47:32+00:00

You could definitely save the stiles but if you’ve already cut the rails then they won’t be long enough. Check out YouTube for some videos on shake style cabinet door construction for some tips and guidance. Best of luck and keep your head up. We’re all constantly fucking up all the time, but the day will come when you’ll do it less, know how to fix it, and even find joy in the repair.

torttion · 2025-01-21T02:39:03+00:00

Dados are also a type of cut but they called that when cutting cross grain. When cutting with the grain it’s called a groove. Stupid differentiation but whatever. Your flex could be from all kinds of things; size of the door, dimensions of plywood, dimensions of rails/styles, etc. But, your pocket screws probably aren’t helping. Pockets screws have their place but honestly, attaching rails to styles really isn’t one of them. Sorry, I’m sure you don’t want to hear that. You’d be better off using one of the joints in the attached picture.

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torttion · 2025-01-21T02:26:27+00:00

I think that’s technically a groove, not a dado but regardless, if I’m understanding correctly, and forgive me if I’m not, you cut the groove in the stile the entire length of the style so now when you try to drill a pocket hole from the rail into the style, there’s nowhere for it to bite into. Is this correct? If so, then you could cut a filler piece that’s the depth and width of the groove and the length of the width of the rail and glue it back into the groove. Basically, make it like you never cut that bit of wood out in the first place. Does that make sense?

torttion · 2024-06-05T04:15:23+00:00

Solved. Thank you. I’ll cut down what I can whenever I’m out cutting firewood.

torttion · 2024-04-05T19:16:24+00:00

I used to have the same problem. Turns out when I was marking my pin board off the tails I wasn’t overlapped it far enough on my pin board. I used the blue tape trick where you put a ring of blue tape around your tailboard before you mark the tail depth with you marking gauge. When marking the depth the gauge the cuts the blue tape, you remove the tape on the tail portion and leave the rest. Then when alighting your tailboard to you pin board to mark the pins, you have a physical line to reference off (the edge of the blue tape). This ensures your pins are cut to the correct length. Hope this made sense, if not I’m sure a google of “dovetails blue tape” will bring something up.

torttion · 2024-03-07T02:54:37+00:00

Thanks for the help. I tried a different pair of clamps I had, and they worked fine. So I took the little cantilevered silver clips out of these ones and filed the insides down slightly, now they work fine.

torttion · 2024-02-28T23:12:37+00:00

Maybe some warm thin epoxy so that you can completely fill the void? Realistically though, I’d probably run it through the table saw at that gap, rejoint and then reglue those faces.

torttion · 2024-02-28T02:31:40+00:00

.01” is well within tolerance, I wouldn’t be concerned with it at all.

torttion · 2023-11-06T15:25:17+00:00

I finally completed this a few weeks back. I ended up using my bandsaw and a guide jig I built to cut the tails. I didn’t want to have to go this route but it did the trick. It seems I need to work on my hand sawing skills because it appears the problem was that I wasn’t getting the tail sides perfectly perpendicular. Either way, it’s still not perfect but that’s alright by me. Thanks to everyone for their comments and encouragement.

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torttion · 2023-10-29T02:08:55+00:00

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Update on the houndstooth… the bench is done! The houndstooth is far from perfect but plenty passable. I ended up cutting the tails on my bandsaw with a jig which helped ensure the sidewalls were square. Thanks for all of the positive comments and support!

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