Daughter using 1x2'some to make simple cabinet doors frames. After finishing all 4 doors, husband suggested that she might have used nicer quality Lumber. She switched from clear pine to birch.
Using birch (HD) every single stile splits when the screw gets tightened, even just slightly by hand.
Again, pockets are in rail, parallel to grain. Screen enters stile perpendicular to grain.
Screws are 1-1/4 inch.
What gives? Pockets don't work on hard woods?