At Last This Bar is Done

[John Timberlake]

Wow! I love everything - the bar, the back bar, the columns, the elk - everything. Great job.

[Per Swenson]

The collumns.....

Bob, my very own ole geezer whipped those together here.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=48083

The elk in the bar top.....

Hold on I'll go look.....

You still there ? OK, Its here.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...ghlight=carved

Per

[Ben Grunow]

You mean to say that you and your crew (how many?) did that work AND did the finishing?

I am impressed. Great design (yours too I imagine) and execution.

How many man hours into a job like that for you guys? (500-600 ?)

Wow. Make me thirsty.

[Roy Wall]

Per -

That...........is pretty sweet! What a terrific JOB!

You make great use of the super safety table saw and the black & green guided saw / sanders / et al....stuff........

[John Miliunas]

Oh my word, Per! That is absolutely stunning and you're right..."The money SHOULD be in the bank!" Wow and again I say, "WOW"!

[Per Swenson]

Ben,

There is no crew.

Just my 82 year old Father and yours truly.

And its nothing to brag about, but, I don't work well with others

when it comes to this stuff.

Per.

[Joe Mioux]

How long did it take a week? maybe two, don't tell me three? j/k

Per, That is a very handsome bar and room! I can see some serious drinking and smoking going on in there.

Joe

[Mathew Nedeljko]

Thanks for answering my questions by posting links to previous threads. I missed those !

What a great resource this is! Beats any magazine subscription!

[Jesse Thornton]

(*Long slow whistle*) Wow. That is simply stunning, Per. Maybe if I keep this woodworking thing up for another forty or fifty years I'll be able to pull off something like that too.
Thanks for sharing your phenomenal work.

[Zahid Naqvi]

Per, that's some fantastic work, talk about a makeover.

[Per Swenson]

Jesse,

Everybody else too.

Listen up. Go back and look at the pictures and break it down into

subassemblys. It is just finish carpentry. It isn't even a chair.

So, it a little less then 3000 board feet of Mahogany.

And gallons of finish. It is just big and seems really hard.

It ain't. If you can hang and trim a door, know your way around the tools

you allready own, (plus, get someone to pay you alot of money)

You could do this too. Each and every one of ya.

Except maybe the elk in the bar.

There are no secrets here.

Per

[Joel Ficke]

Mind boggling. Simply awesome!

[John Schreiber]

Jesse,

Everybody else too.

Listen up. Go back and look at the pictures and break it down into

subassemblys. It is just finish carpentry. It isn't even a chair.

So, it a little less then 3000 board feet of Mahogany.

And gallons of finish. It is just big and seems really hard.

It ain't. If you can hang and trim a door, know your way around the tools

you allready own, (plus, get someone to pay you alot of money)

You could do this too. Each and every one of ya.

Except maybe the elk in the bar.

There are no secrets here.

Per

Combine that with Per's signature line from T.E. Lawrence (That's Lawrence of Arabia to you and me.) "all men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night....wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

Per, you may be right that we are all capable of it, but your eyes are open and most of the rest of us are afraid to look.

[Ron Brese]

Per,

The before and after are in stark contrast to one another, but then again I'm not telling you anything you don't know. I have a firm grasp on the obvious.
Truthfully these kind of things can get overwhelming if allowed. I am sure you had to break this down into small jobs that had to be accomplished in order to get the whole of the thing done. If one tries to do a job like this without a plan of sequences you tend to find yourself overwhelmed, chasing your tail and never catching it. In other words you get nothing done trying to get everything done. You really did manage this thing well and the results were awesome!

Ron

[Per Swenson]

Thanks Ron,

But this is what I do.

When I say that, I really mean it.

I haven't gone to movie since Chitty Chitty Bang Bang opened in '64


Per