A guy in Tucson paid me $500 to build a curly maple bar top, then asked if I could make it look more like the fake wood grain on his Pontiac

Jana Fox · 2026-09-25T08:30:02.45466+00:00

I stood there with a fresh card scraper in my hand trying to figure out how to tell him that 60 hours of bookmatched figuring was about to get sprayed with a Home Depot can of faux oak, so has anyone else had a client try to ruin nice stock with a rattle can?

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A guy in Tucson paid me $500 to build a curly maple bar top, then asked if I could make it look more like the fake wood grain on his Pontiac | Cabinetmakers - SMM Buzz