Graybeard Outdoors (GBO Reloaded)
Survival & Self Sustainability => Wood Working => Topic started by: GRIMJIM on April 26, 2010, 05:05:31 PM
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I just found these pics and thought you'd get a kick out of them. I built this desk a few years ago. We hauled a fiberglass boat into the shop, they gave me a rough idea of what they were looking for and I went to town with a sawzall.
(https://www.gboreloaded.com/mhp/images/grimjim/mvc003scopy.jpg)
(https://www.gboreloaded.com/mhp/images/grimjim/mvc002scopy.jpg)
(https://www.gboreloaded.com/mhp/images/grimjim/mvc016scopy.jpg)
I honestly could have severely injured the guy that measured this job.
First it wouldn't fit in the freight elevator so I had to cut it down the keel with a jigsaw. Then the long half wouldn't fit in the elevator so we had to ride on top of the elevator up 14 floors. Then it wouldn't make the turn in the hallway to get into the office so I had to cut the length in half.
It turned out pretty good in the end though.
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You make some cool stuff Jim. If the guys that design some of that that stuff ever had to install it, they would not make that mistake twice!
I once had to carry a 12' by 7' bookcase around the back of a house, over footing trenches on 2 x12's, into a patio door opening about five feet high while standing on the plank. Oh, forgot to mention, the owner had some 1" mdf he got "a good deal on" so he used it up on this job.
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1" mdf he got "a good deal on" so he used it up on this job.
Ouch.
Oh and thanks.
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I think it turned out pretty nice! In spite of the times you had to cut it, I can't see any of that. Nice work.
Zulu