I’m not sure if this is unique or just unique to me. I do know in the 8,347,268 conversations I’ve had with carpenters all around America—most of which start with “I had a job once”—I’ve never seen or heard of anybody dry-lining a stud wall, then kerfing the recalcitrant “timbers” and shimming them back into straightness—or what we might actually call flat.
I have my doubts that this would fly on a bearing wall but it seems to work on this partition, which is also framed in Kiwi style with what appears to be 24-inch-on-center framing with a lot of cross-blocking.
Maybe they have less gravity there or shorter trees or something.
Anyway, check out the video. Scott is good and watchable. And since we have the same hammer, I just assume we’re buddies.
