Tried using a drywall square for cabinet layout instead of a framing square

Ended up with all my drawers off by 3/16 because the lip on the drywall square threw off my measurements, what do you guys actually use for squaring up cabinet boxes?

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ellis.mia2d ago

My rafter square cost me twelve bucks and my drywall square now lives in the back of the truck as a dedicated "emergency straight edge for things I don't care about" (like making sure my lawnmower blade lines up, sort of). Clamping the flat side right to the plywood is the only way I can keep my boxes square, mostly because my eyeballs are roughly as reliable as a wet sponge when it comes to 3/16. The diagonal trick saved my butt last time I built a set of cabinets and somehow avoided making them look like parallelogram art projects.

julia5572d ago

Did that exact same thing last month with a drywall square. Spent a whole afternoon building a set of organizers that ended up looking like they were made by a drunk toddler. Now I just use a basic rafter square from the hardware store that cost me like 8 bucks, it's flat on both sides with no dumb lip and I can clamp it right to the plywood. Also started double checking with a tape measure across the diagonals because my eyes are apparently not calibrated for 3/16 anymore.