Project Post, Helping the neighbor

[Craig Thompson]

Well its bound to happen, bother someone enough with your planer at 10 at night.... and they ask you to "help them with a project"

Neighbor needed his basement bar / mini kitchen finished and I abliged, not fine furniture but... here it is. Thanks for looking and commenting. As standard, give the good, bad, and ugly.

[Bill Huber]

I would say you should put up with a lot of planning at 10:00 for that....

Very nice looking setup and I am sure it adds a lot to the basement overall look.

[Don Bullock]

..not fine furniture but... ...

That's certainly finer than some of the furniture I've made. That's a very nice looking job. I agree, that your neighbor should have no complaints about your late night work. Hopefully all your other neighbors don't have similar projects for your to "help" with.;) :D

[Pat Zabrocki]

You asked for the good, the bad and the ugly so here ya go:

good: a whole bunch!!
bad and ugly: zero!!

Great looking project!!! and as someone said earlier, you just earned a whole lot of "late night planing"

Well done!
cheers
Pat

[Larry Fox]

WOW - I am not going to let my neighbor see this. He gets compensated for putting up with the late night planing sessions by the ocassional table-saw or bandsaw cut and MAYBE, just MAYBE I might spray something for him if I made a lot of racket!!!

VERY nice

[Jamie Smith]

Very nice. What kind of material did you use? What finish?

thanks.

[Ralph Okonieski]

It looks pretty "fine" to me ! Very nice.

[Craig Thompson]

Very nice. What kind of material did you use? What finish?

thanks.

Jamie, It was all made with Hard Maple, Finished with MLCampbell's pigmented lacquer... kind of an oatmeal, Chocolate Glaze, and a couple more coats of 'medium rub' lacquer.

[Bruce Page]

Craig, there's a house up the street from me that's up for sale....

Very nice

[Jeffrey Makiel]

I heard your darn planer all the way over here in New Jersey. I will be sending some drawings shortly. :)

-Jeff :)

[frank shic]

craig, did you consider making the raised panels on the front of the bar as one MASSIVE piece? your approach seems much easier.

[Craig Thompson]

Frank, One piece would have looked better and used less lumber... I would have preferred it. (I think it looks nicer)... But Ronny wanted this design... like his kitchen upstairs... Darn those mass producers, always giving up proper build practices for easy installs

[frank shic]

craig, it's just another reminder that "beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder (customer)" and that most people simply don't appreciate the same level of detail as we do! ;)