Customer's projects pictures thread

[Greyhound]

A couple super simple projects from customers.


 


 

[caveman]

The young man who built the "armory" came back and bought quite a bit of blue pine this afternoon.  He showed me the finished pictures of his gun room.  I think he did an exceptional job.


 

 

 

 

 

[caveman]

As cool as live oak is to me and as difficult as it is to saw and dry properly it has not been a great seller

 for us in board form.  A couple of weeks ago a guy from Orlando bought all of the s4s we had on hand for a fraction of its worth (we needed the rack space).  Anyway, tonight he sent me a couple of pics of a table top he built out of some of the live oak he got from us a few weeks ago.  

[Magicman]

 

 
Here is some lumber that Luke and I sawed last year.  Ceiling, flooring, and kitchen island top.


 
And here it is now;  Flooring.


 
Flooring plus wall paneling between the shelves.


 
Flooring plus the kitchen island top yet unfinished.


 
Flooring plus you can see a bit of ceiling.


 


 
And V-Groove porch ceiling almost completed.  It was finished before installing.

[JJ]

Love the ceiling to floor windows.   Somebody's pet is really going to like that.
Floors look great too!

       JJ

[caveman]

The guy who built the live oak table top just sent me a picture of the finished table and wants more live oak boards.  Surprisingly the live oak boards have not been a big seller for us and we usually end up sawing our live oak into live edged slabs.


MM, the floors and counter top look incredible.


 

[WDH]

Those tapered legs look nice.  Just straight square ones look clunky to me. 

[caveman]

Danny, I still need to bring you a live oak log or two.  I agree you on the legs.

[kelLOGg]

Just before Covid hit last year I finished a 3 month long saw job for a friend who was building his own house. He brought me SYP logs and I sawed and air dried about 8000 bd ft for siding plus a few beams. My wife and I went to his daughter's 1 year old birthday party yesterday and got a tour. Take a look.



 

 

 

 

Black is an unusual color for a house but I thought it looked great in the setting it is it. Inside looks like an art gallery but I didn't cut for that.

[samandothers]

Great looking place! Looks like furring strips under the horizontal siding. Should help keep it dryer and cooler in the summer.

[VB-Milling]

The young man who built the "armory" came back and bought quite a bit of blue pine this afternoon.  He showed me the finished pictures of his gun room.  I think he did an exceptional job.


 

 

 

 

This project turned out pretty awesome.  Kudos to that guy for not only his collection, but having the space to dedicate a securable room to his hobby.  Just fantastic.

[Durvin Wick]

 

 

 

 


Pavilion is complete, great project with the wife and grandkids. Thanks everyone on here for the wealth of information I found on this forum.

[doc henderson]

very calm, peaceful, and beautiful.  could be a chapel with the benches.

[Daburner87]

 

 

 


Pavilion is complete, great project with the wife and grandkids. Thanks everyone on here for the wealth of information I found on this forum.

That came out great.  How did you joint the benches?

[Durvin Wick]

The slabs had some rot, the wife used epoxy and dyed it brown to fill in the cracks.

[Durvin Wick]

After the slabs air dried we just hit them with a 4" belt sander.

[Raym]

So....Being partially retired from home building, I still get to build a couple houses a year. This one, I am nearing completion and the customer had some timbers that were dated to 1878 from a family barn somewhere in New York. He asked if I could use them to make a mantle for his fireplace. I dont know if I have ever seen rings so tight and it appears that this may have started as a 16" (ish) log. I'm guessing about 160 years old. That would make it a seedling somewhere in the 1700's.

 



 

I had 3 timbers to work with. I only found one that seemed to be free of metal.



 

I put on a new (resharp) blade and it sawed like a breeze.



 

Count them if you want to. I didnt.....



 

Installation was a little tricky because they were very heavy. The legs and top header (8"x5") were anchored into studs with 6" timber anchors and the top mantle (10"W x 8"T x 6'L) was also anchored into wall studs.

Needless to say, they were very pleased.

[Cjross73]

Some of the B&B siding I've been sawing,  sure makes me want to build a new barn....

 

 

[alanh]

  I picked up this boatload (2) of pecky cypress slabs from a mill I was driving by coming back from Florida a couple years back, finally got around to doing a multi color epoxy pour bartop to replace the one I built from too green black locust 10 years ago,

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[Crusarius]

That is definitely one of the nicest bar tops I have seen. Nice work.

[caveman]

Great job on the bar top.  I've never seen pecky cypress in a Boston Whaler.

[alanh]

Thanks guys, it definately was a pita keeping the epoxy from following the "peckies' and running out the bottom. In hindsight (which is always 20/20) it would have been way easier to build a mold and immerse the entire thing in one color but we had decided on the multi color. 
 Putting them in the boat was a much easier solution than being "that guy" and tying them on the roof of the car for a 1400 mile trip.

[DbltreeBelgians]

Beautiful bar top. Very nice job. I like the dive helmet on the corner shelf under the TV also.

Brent

[alanh]

Thanks, the dive helmet is an ice bucket in disguise....

[Crossroads]

I cut these 2 slabs about 5 or 6 years ago.