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sweating the details

7/22/2012

This is how I get started with a project like this deck I am doing, I first draw it out and figure out all the details using Google Sketch up.
By Taking the Time to do this answers alot of questions before you start to build. It also allows you to show the customer what the project will look like.
So after careful planning and precutting of various parts we spent the first day on site yesterday and after a long hot day we were able to get the main part of the deck frame erected, Take a look at the collection of photos below.

It's starting to look just like the drawing.
We'll be back a few nights this week, after the masons and Landscapers are out of the way and the sun starts to fade and continue with the process.

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prep school

7/19/2012

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I've spent some prep time in the shop, I made up the stand offs (concrete filled pvc spacers), Pre cut the pvc Skirt board that will attach to the house and the first piece of the deck frame that will bolt to the house with the stand offs between it and the skirt board.

The other components that I'm able to pre cut are the rail posts, These need to be installed as we assemble the deck frame.
Notice the variety of different cuts.This is were drawing things out in Cad ( computer aided design) really helps.

Previously I have made up the support posts (steel), Primmed and painted them and have installed 3 of the five that will be needed.
Here is a shot of the top of one of the 45 degree corner posts.

The on site work starts this weekend, While the masons and the landscaping crew are out of the way. It's not that I don't like these guy's they just get in the way and I'm sure I'll be in there way.

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Family Friends Furniture and the Fourth

7/10/2012

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Last week during their Fourth of July vacation My Daughter and her Boyfriend had a request while they were here. A TV stand for their apartment in NYC. Here is the result of the combined efforts of the three of us. ( I also have to give a shout out to her oldest brother for drilling & tapping the custom door pulls).

A trip to the local big box supply store , some custom metal fabrication , and a few bits and pieces from the shop and whala, it almost looks like a kit.

Pops ( that would be me) was pretty much in charge of the wood working end of things while the rest of the team cleaned metal , cut rivets , and assembled parts and pieces.
Here is a groove that will accept the metal bands that we fabricated to wrap the doors and end panels. You can also see the door panel is 1/8" steel.

So in between Story land with the Grand kids,boating,lobster dinners, hikes, a little actual work on my part, cook outs and campfires (with semores of course) It all came together in time to be taken apart and packed into the rental car for it's trip to its permanent home in Manhattan.

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I've pretty much had my hands on wood for the most part of my Life. Started in High school, on Marthas Vineyard Mass.Worked under a Father and son Partnership that taught me the valuable foundation of what High End work really is.
I've taken those fundimentals and put my own spin on things. Today (some 36 years ago as I write this )My shop is located in Northern New Hampshire, where I have followed my philosophy of doing high quality work and delivering more than the customer expects.

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