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Post a picture of your current job.

Previous Threads.
Part I
Part II
 
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I guess I'll have to live with 14 out of 15 ain't bad. And I'm not even sure how it happened. Went back into my measurements and the dimension is correct. Just an error cutting the parts. Off by 1"

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Full 1/2" overlay door on cabinets the HO put in. I did the sink run for them and he did the rest because of my time table. Because I don't have the cabinets in the shop to check size I decided to bring them over and hang all of them. That way all the hinge plates are on the cabinets and I went as far as to adjust all the hinges. So when I come back with them painted all I'm doing is putting the hinges on and snapping them into place. The do the holes for the handles.

But I have 3 glass doors with some weird shaped grids that I hadn't made yet and I'm glad I didn't. Now I don't have to remake it because the door needs to be 1" wider. It's a mistake, but by going there and hanging them now I didn't have to remake the door, the grid, put on a prime coat and 2 coats of paint all over again. All I have to do is remake the door and continue on with the painting because I know it'll be right this time.

We make it nice, because we do it twice
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I had my buddy use his CNC to mill out these grids for the cabinet doors I made. One of them which was the undersized door I showed. I caught him in time so he didn't mill the narrow door, I re-wrote the file I give to him to run to the CNC for the new door size.

I install these grids by making a shaped rabbet for the grid to fit into. The 1st one took about an hour. the 2nd about 20 minutes. I figured out how to do it much better 2nd time around. Routed out with a 1/4" straight bit and then the shape completed with hand carving.

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And here is the grid fitted in the rabbets. This will all be covered over with the glass and then some quarter round to hold the glass in.


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The door will match some nearby windows in the house.
 
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tjbnwi said:
Looks like he did a spring trace with a 1/8” mill.

The machine I got will broach an inside corner with the proper tool in the one of the tool stations. We’ll probably just do the inside corners the way it was done above, broaching is hard on the machine.

Tom
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Spring trace? I just wrote a DFX file and he imported it into his CNC software and put in the z axis for cutting.

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Nope, 1/8" bit for the whole cut. Small 2x4 CNC this time. 3 passes with the last pass moved in a bit to make sure there is no stepping on the edge.
 
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Nice! (y)

Just a note... I recently replaced four door slabs. Nothing wrong with them; HO just wanted a new look. However, all four doors had that hinge-mounted doorstop on the top hinge. On all four, that hinge had pulled loose and had been re-secured with 3" screws into the framing--and even those were a bit loose.

I always try to talk the client into either a floor-mounted or baseboard-mounted stop, or even one of those jobs that mounts on the drywall where the knob would hit.
 
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Tinstaafl said:
Nice! (y)

Just a note... I recently replaced four door slabs. Nothing wrong with them; HO just wanted a new look. However, all four doors had that hinge-mounted doorstop on the top hinge. On all four, that hinge had pulled loose and had been re-secured with 3" screws into the framing--and even those were a bit loose.

I always try to talk the client into either a floor-mounted or baseboard-mounted stop, or even one of those jobs that mounts on the drywall where the knob would hit.
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The client specifically requested a hinge mount stop after I proposed a baseboard one like I usually do, he was concerned that baseboard one would still let the door hit the window. I didn’t even think about a floor mounted one. We had talked about a second hinge mounted stop on the bottom hinge. I know what you’re saying though, if you push those hinge ones past their stopping point they can really lever against the screws hard.
 
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The original plan was to build a semi-circle around the tree.

The morning I was taking material delivery, the client tells me they've decided to take the tree down.

It was the right call, just two weeks too late.

The original schedule was to have it wrapped up yesterday as I am unavailable next week. With the delay for the tree removal, it will have to get finished the week of the 12th.

The clients were informed and understand that a change in scope creates a change in schedule.

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Barn for our ranch custom home in Fredonia. Pour friday at 4 am, pump will be here at 3. Hour from the shop and an hour and a half from my house, will leave the house at midnight Friday am, let the super get his normal routine with his kids etc... and leave at 9 or so when he gets to the site.

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TxElectrician crew was getting ready to roll the 550 ft underground out and pull it in when I left
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House forming starts next week and our crew starts steel erection Tuesday. Matt fired the flew foundation guy on his third slab, so back to using our guys, they super stoked about concrete in June lol

Super built a 1/2 mile road up to the site đź‘Ť

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Second smallest house we have going at 4k under roof but I like it, and like the owner. So her house is on my offcie wall while it's under construction
 
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Jaws said:
TxElectrician crew was getting ready to roll the 550 ft underground out and pull it in when I left
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Glad to see they are doing something while I am away roughing it in the Tetons, where it started the day at 37° and ended at 63°.

Hopefully they will be finished roughing a 6500sf in BCL by my return. [emoji4]

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#9,305 ·
No smoke in those skies.....
 
#9,310 ·
Do those doors on either side of the pet feeding area slide over to cover the opening to hide the food dishes?

Cause that would be kewl.
 
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