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Cabinet making is a lost art. It used to be very common, but now most cabinetry is mass produced in factories so there aren't many people around who are skilled
by UncleOxidant 5y ago
Cabinet making is a lost art. It used to be very common, but now most cabinetry is mass produced in factories so there aren't many people around who are skilled in the art.
- rdtwo 5y agoIt’s slow and inefficient without scale and tooling. Just like how most people don’t have custom cars because it’s too expensive
- a2tech 5y agoCabinets are not almost exclusively made to order in factories. At least the ones that aren't picked up in a box at Lowes. We just had a new bathroom installed and each cabinet was hand made--in a factory settings of course, to our specifications.
- conductr 5y ago> hand made It was most likely CNC made and hand assembled. The guy doing the assembly would have no clue what to do without the CNC’d parts. The guy designing the CAD files would have no clue how to assemble the CNC’d parts. Neither of them know how to install the cabinets in your bathroom. This used to all be done by the same guy.
- UncleOxidant 5y agoA lot of them are picked up in a box at Lowes (or Depot or Ikea). Sure you can have custom ones made in a factory, but 60+ years ago most every carpenter worth his (well, they mostly were male then) salt knew how to make decent cabinets. I went to an estate sale a few years back where the deceased had been a cabinet maker - the cabinets and homemade furniture were amazing.