Woodworking Tips from Pop…

This has got to hurt!

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I’ve got an idea!
Build a house upside down, get a band, charge admission. Brilliant! Just look at the people lining up to get inside this thing. The video at the bottom of this post explains that the builder built this house to make a statement about the times in which we live. I think it [...]

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Building a custom bar…..Page 6
 If you’re going to spend the big bucks on a bar, it better have some custom moldings!
No matter what kind of bar you’re building in order to have a true classic bar, you need to have some kind of moldings to finish off the details. Crown molding above the back bar, heavy molding [...]

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Building a custom bar…..Page 5
Well, I spent the first part of the day redoing the damn arches I made earlier, I goofed!
Even though I was using a story pole, it’s easy to make mistakes. My mistake was getting ahead of myself. I should have built the columns first (like I have so many times in the [...]

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Tamales for lunch
Recently I was reminded of the old days when Pop and I were installing handrails and steps for a local Atlanta stair company , It was alright for a while, we learned all kinds of info on curved stairs, bending rails, installing iron balusters and newels post. Like I said, it was alright [...]

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  Ever since Pop taught me how to read a measuring tape and to build a cabinet, I’ve been hooked on the various forms of architecture that have evolved over the centuries. From the five orders that have fashioned the aesthetics of building from the renaissance, to the mid evil and gothic designs of 15th [...]

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Building a custom bar…..Page 4
 I didn’t get to the arches today like I had planned today. Pop always says write your plan down on a piece of paper and then throw it in the garbage. Because in this business things rarely work out as planned. Instead we worked on the raised panel doors and the columns [...]

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