Woodworking Tips from Pop…

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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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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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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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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Building a custom bar…..Page 1
Today we started on a bar that finds its inspiration from the old Gaslight clubs of Chicago. A chain of night clubs in the 1950’s that gave inspiration to Hugh Heffner’s famous Playboy clubs. These Cad drawings below are just the start of a series of post I will be doing [...]

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This is how we make bar brackets in our shop
First draw the design on a piece of paper or cardboard, this is called the template. Most brackets on a bar are typically around eight inches long x four inches deep x four inches wide. These dimensions will vary depending on the size of lumber available [...]

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