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#1,123 ·
Finished up the wine room. Patched all the holes in the shutter ceiling. Lots of angles. Put up one small shutter and a few floating pcs above them to block off any odd holes. Took about 2 hours. The moved onto the last wall. Wood was getting slim pickings.

Surrounded the door, did the soffit for the whole length and the "post"

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#1,124 ·
tjbnwi said:
Have to give Zach credit for this. Working on a new "old" island.

Black tinted Surfacer, dark brown base coat, KA+ white coat, all sanded back, will get top coated with Hydro Plus, post catalyzed.

More pictures when complete.

Tom
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I thought you gave up on the SW finishes?
 
#1,125 ·
DaVinciRemodel said:
I thought you gave up on the SW finishes?
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Was real close. Had a conversation with my rep back home, next day Cleveland called.

Amazing how fast things get fixed when a company realizes that they may loose 6 figures in buisness a year due to service at one of their stores. Not only would thy have lost my business (~3K a month), but I told them everyone who uses their products due to my recommendations will probably go with what I recommend next.

Turn around on a custom mix is 3 days now (unless I have to overnight a sample, then it runs 5 days), including shipping. Stock items, I have them via FedEx or courier next day.

Tom
 
#1,126 ·
MLC at Atlantic Plywood custom colors are usually produced that same day. They finally got a matching machine. Stain matches can still take a few days depending on his work load and difficulty of reproducing it.

Bob, my guy is really good at stain match. Usually you can see all of his tries and for the most part you never see more than 6 tries before it's matched. I've seen him get it on the 3rd try.

He's also blown it completely. On one of the stain matches I brought back my stain example of his "match" and he actually said "That color came out of that can?" It had so much extra orange in it, it wasn't even funny.
 
#1,127 ·
The Denver store is about a little over an hour north of me. I believe they also got a matching machine recently. I call them for a color in the morning, they have it ready the next day, by the time it arrives to me with shipping it's a 3 day deal.

Stains they match (that I can't get myself with dyes) takes about a week. I have to send them a sample and test pieces. Usually see it back within a week. Had one that was a color over color, that took a little longer.

Tom
 
#1,128 ·
Atlantic Plywood is about 15-20 minutes away from me.
 
#1,129 ·
tjbnwi said:
Was real close. Had a conversation with my rep back home, next day Cleveland called.

Amazing how fast things get fixed when a company realizes that they may loose 6 figures in buisness a year due to service at one of their stores. Not only would thy have lost my business (~3K a month), but I told them everyone who uses their products due to my recommendations will probably go with what I recommend next.

Turn around on a custom mix is 3 days now (unless I have to overnight a sample, then it runs 5 days), including shipping. Stock items, I have them via FedEx or courier next day.

Tom
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So, can I order through your account to get some service?
 
#1,132 ·
Got started framing my first full addition this week. We've done every part of this many times before (except the couple parts I'm subbing out, such as the poured walls), so there is nothing new here except combining it all together.

Took most of the day to get the beams dropped into place. Had the 1600 pounder up in the air before someone thought to measure the slots for them.... Found out the foundation guys poured the slots a half inch too narrow. Had to set the ***** back down and cut the slots back before we could proceed. Went a lot smoother after that. Got the floor half framed out before the Friday afternoon itch started to distract the boys and we knocked off at 5.

Will throw up better pics as we get the walls up next week.

The house was built in 1837 and has been beautifully maintained and updated. Gotta make sure this addition fits in!
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#1,133 ·
It was a full weekend...mix of personal and business projects. Finally set my generator and AC unit on the slab after the addition and painting the generator. Also sprayed some KemAqua onsite for some stair trim. And I got my soffit and fascia done at my place too!! That's huge because now my gutters can go on this week. Have a great night all!!
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#1,135 ·
Only took me 5 hours to make two of these curved corner hip parts.

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#1,139 · (Edited)
tjbnwi said:
Next one will be 2.5.

Looks great.

Tom
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I had to make a template to make my template. :laughing:

I took a 2" wide pc of plywood and did a bevel on both sides of one edge so it formed a point along the length of the edge. I cut it to the proper length for the lower and upper corner boards (9" and 2").

Then I cut a pc of plywood and put angles on both ends. I played the game of sneak up on it until I got the angles and the length of that pc so that it fit nicely between the upper and lower corner boards. I used 2P10 to glue the 3 boards together.

I used a spacer about 1 1/4" wide to form guide lines on the two side curves to use as a reference of straightness when I went to "plot" out the corner curve. I did a quick test and found out that the corner element wasn't wide enough to form the curve, so I just glued another width onto it using the 2P10.

Then I used a straight stick with a point on it and lined up the stick with the lines I placed on the other curved parts and put a dot on the corner element. Then I did this for all the other lines and formed a plot of the curve I needed on the corner element.

I removed the corner and connected the plotted lines. Then I measured out 3/8" from the plotted line for another line which would form the angles to form the corner on the outside of the curve. Cut it on the bandsaw, sanded it smooth on the edge sander. Measured out 2 3/8" to the back of the curve and cut that on the bandsaw to form the width of the curve. I took this template and used it to draw onto a 1/4" pc of Baltic Birch to form the real template I'd be using to route the parts.

Cut that out with the bandsaw, sanded it smooth and then used that to draw onto a pc of 3/4" plywood. I did two of them. Rough cut them out with the bandsaw and screwed the 1/4" template to the blank. I ran that on the router table with a 7/8" flush cutting bit. Then I swapped over to a 45º bevel bit with a bearing. I ran that on the outside (concave) curve and the two straight sections that would form the corners.

Pretty psyched that when I balanced a pcs across the side curves and the corner curves they touched on all three.
 
#1,140 ·
Easy Gibson said:
Leo, what'd you use to make that deep bevel on the poplar piece under the lead/copper cap?
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If I told you, I'd have to kill you. ;)

Just put a spacer along the edge of the poplar, glued it on with 2P10. And then I ran it though the planer several times to form the slope.

I assume you're talking about this

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