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Originally Posted by javadog
That is not a very forgiving craft.
The good news is that the machines they use have come along by leaps and bounds.
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It is not, there is no fixing a mistake. GPS and computers help as well. When we used to patter rooms or counters we would glue together wood strips. Now it is all done by a GPS plotter.
Most of the stonework in my house was oopsies from jobs. They couldn't do anything with it so it would go sit out in a yard.
The kitchen countertop in the house I just sold was to have been a desk in some executive's office in Manhattan. In the center was a cutout for a computer monitor that laid in the desktop and was to be covered by glass. The layout guy didn't put the cutout in the right spot it was about 1/4" from center as I recall. It was a thirty-thousand-dollar mistake.
I went there to have him make me a countertop. In the yard I saw the piece. I asked him about it, he said if you can use it, you can have it. I took measurements and saw I could make it work. They cut about six feet off one end, enlarged the hole from the computer monitor so I could slide my stove in the opening.
I paid two of his guys to stay after work one night to cut and polish.