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Pro tip: I stopped pre-drilling pine after a cabinet maker in Grand Rapids showed me why
I used to pre-drill every screw hole in pine because that's how the old guy I apprenticed under in 2018 did it, and I figured splitting was just part of working with soft wood. Last month a cabinet maker in Grand Rapids watched me snap a 1x6 face frame and asked why I was drilling a pilot bigger than the screw shank, then handed me his impact driver and a box of #8 trim heads to try it his way. Turns out I had been making weak joints for years by over-drilling, so what do you all run for pilot sizes in pine and poplar, or am I the only one who had this backwards?
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