Woodworking Tips from Pop…

Hello World
Do cutting arches intimidate you? Maybe this post can help out.
The ability to cut a true circle or segment arch is a huge part of building custom interiors. Just about every other bar or built-in that we build will have some type of arch of one form or another.
Cutting arches used to be a [...]

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Building a custom bar…..Page 3
Face frames and Door components
I know it still doesn’t look like much, but today was a very productive day in building this classic bar. Pop was really pushing!
 We spent the day milling Stile and rails for the doors, making and installing face frames on the back bar, building a few drawers, [...]

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Part 1
This weekend I had an opportunity to visit the woodworking show in Atlanta, and the place was packed! All the great tools and craftsmen displays were enough to keep me wandering around for hours. Most of the same companies were there like Kreg, Dewalt, Bosch, Freud, Delta, and the one that impressed me the [...]

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 Turning crown molding into baseboard
Recently we’ve been doing some cabinet projects that require a more furniture grade look. One inexpensive way we found to achieve this result is to add decorative feet to the base instead of a traditional toe kick. Now, you can go out and purchase a decorative foot or spend hours or [...]

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Sometimes I just can’t leave well enough alone. I decided today to include another new category on this site called “The Woodworkers Gallery”. This is where I’ll post, not only my projects but other craftsmen’s as well. These are projects that inspire us and I felt they should be included on this site.
Surfing the internet [...]

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The Drawing Room 
In light of our new look, I felt motivated to create a new category called the “Drawing Room”. This is where I’ll dump CAD drawings of jobs that we’ve completed, jobs we didn’t get, and others that are still in the idea phase. Our Cad drawings are a very important tool when it comes to the designing and building of [...]

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Building a custom bar…..Page 2
The story pole
The very first course of action in building this bar is the layout of the lower cabinetry on the back bar. This is done using a homemade story pole that keeps track of all the dimensions for the appliances, face frames and any other type of measurement. This stick [...]

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