Need advice in dealing w/ woodworkers/cab builders

8/20/2000 8:00 PM

rich

Need advice in dealing w/ woodworkers/cab builders i went back an forth decieding if i should try and figure out to do dovetails. i went and bought the wood and the place i bought it from did woodworking and decided to have them do it after explaining what i wanted. he said it would be $125 to cut four pieces of wood and join them w/ dovetails (which is all i wanted, i was going to do baffel myself). i though that was alot, but another place quoted me the same so i said ok. i didn't say exactly what size dovetails i wanted, but he showed me the jig he said he was going to use and it looked to me that was set up for around 1/2" dovetails. anyways, i just went to check out what was done, and it looked like crap to me. its a 11" wide board and there are only 3 dovetails. he ended up doing it by hand. i think he didn't know how to do them w/ the jig and couldn't figure it out, or just figured it was too much of a hassel. i didn't know what to say to him, so i just left. does any one know how i can approach this. i don't want to screw him over, but the only reason i went to him was so they would be done right and look professional. i haven't paid him anything yet. does someone agree that that would be considered an incorrect job, or is not doing it how he showed me ok. if you can picture 3 dovetails on a board that big, would you say thats right?   thanks for your input, im in the dark w/ dealing w/ woodworkers and this kind of stuff   rich