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    My Biggest Woodworking Project to Date

    My son has a retail business and built a new building 3 times the size of his old one. He asked me to help him design and build his cash wrap for his new store.


    The counter is 28 feet long with a section that wraps around to the wall. We built it in sections, 6 almost identical sections and 3 for the wrap around. We worked on it only one or two days a week and probably spent a total of six week in design and build.

    This is a one of the 6 sections:
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    The corner section was the most difficult:
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    The other 2 sections were modifications of the first 6 sections. This is the cash wrap before the countertop, and after the counter top was installed, he bought the counter top from a local building supply company.

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    Notice the corner section in the assemble picture is different from the original picture, the counter top required 22.5° angles so we had to modify it to accommodate that.
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    Your design maximizes the height with the minimal amount of wood. This is not as strong but with so many units together it will not matter. Your build method is base level cost wise. I do build commercial fixtures at the opposite end of the spectrum! Mine are for health care settings.
    Glad you added some shelving and baskets, lot of wasted space otherwise!
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Fretwell View Post
    Your design maximizes the height with the minimal amount of wood. This is not as strong but with so many units together it will not matter. Your build method is base level cost wise. I do build commercial fixtures at the opposite end of the spectrum! Mine are for health care settings.
    Glad you added some shelving and baskets, lot of wasted space otherwise!
    Thanks William, I think, I added the shelves but my son added the baskets, when he gets the front of the wrap done I'll provide more pictures.
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    This is the completed "cash wrap".

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    Looks good Jim.
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    Looking Good... I'm sure your son likes it.
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    Thanks guys, a lot of the credit goes to our son, he did all the finish work.
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    Credit to you both...it turned out great.
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    Kudos to you and your son. Massive project indeed. Looks great. I’m glad to see retail doing well in these times...best wishes to him and his business.

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