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13th May 2011, 10:46 PM #1
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Coffee shop commissions
No rest for the wicked
. I have started the first piece for the Coffee Shop at Annandale. This one is a little different to my usual pieces because these are primarily plywood carcases that I will then dress up to look old school. I picked up almost a thousand dollars worth of ply and took back to my lair where after about 4 hours working out how the cake display and bench were going to work, came up with a cutting list
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The ply is external Fujian Cedar from Mr P&W, 13 & 18mm sheets.
I started off cutting one side of the L shaped counter but then moved to the other leg, the cake display. I needed some toughened glass for the display top and front as well as a couple of sheves. Rather than buy odd shape cuts of glass and then have them sent away to be toughened I decided to buy off the shelf glass sheves in sizes that I can work into the design 900 x 350 8mm & 6mm at a tenth of the price too. The front of the display will have two sheets so I end up with 900 x 700 with a small timber mulion through the centre which will go with the old school look. The top gets the 900 x 350 sheet of 8mm and the two shelves are 6mm. So this week I have got almost all of the panels cut and started putting the cake display leg of the L together. Along with a few other little pain in the butt jobs, I guess they all help pay the bills.
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13th May 2011, 11:31 PM #2
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15th May 2011, 08:21 AM #3
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We are on the road again.
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15th May 2011, 09:11 AM #4
What... you mean it's not 1792?
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I hope you're being partially paid in cakes.
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
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15th May 2011, 10:11 AM #5
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plying his trade again
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15th May 2011, 10:32 AM #6
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Cool, I love plying my trade and paid in cakes while on the road to Sydney, you guys are a scream
. I may get part payment in coffee
, these guys roast coffee for about 50 cafes around Sydney and Melbourne, they have some realy nice stuff so that might be the go rather than tooo many more cakes. I don't realy want to go up another size in trousers
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15th May 2011, 10:40 AM #7
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Too much good strong coffee and you will need the cakes to keep you on the ground
Tom
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15th May 2011, 11:18 AM #8
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Good strong coffee is ..... well.........Great
Youv'e got some interesting shapes there CH.I've just become an optimist . Iv'e made a 25 year plan -oopps I've had a few birthdays - better make that a 20 year plan
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15th May 2011, 12:17 PM #9
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Alright you talked me into it, cakes as well then. I hate it when people put pressure on me
. Interesting shapes is an under statement, if this thing fits first go I will be stuned, it's a bit of a nightmare as far as shape goes.
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15th May 2011, 10:53 PM #10
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Did a little more before going to the movies this afternoon. Got the centre shelf cut and fitted and then cut the centre out for the glass to go in.
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15th May 2011, 11:09 PM #11
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Looks like a piece of oragami to me right now. :scatchhead: :begoodificouldfindthedamnsmilie: Glad you know what you're doing.
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15th May 2011, 11:19 PM #12
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"Glad you know what you're doing".
Ha, I wish, one of my faults is I don't ever do very good plans or drawings. I tend to scratch down a few sketches and then make the rest up as I go building it in my head, then I fill in the blanks on the sketch. If only you could see in my head what a mess.
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15th May 2011, 11:22 PM #13
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That's why when SWMBO's ask what are we doing or thinking, we answer, "nothing"
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16th May 2011, 10:02 PM #14
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Originally Posted by Waldo
Amazing perfectly clear to me. Originally Posted by Claw Hama
If only you could see in my head what a mess.
Here's a question for you Claw, what you tell the customer. "colour and height"
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16th May 2011, 10:31 PM #15
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I tan well, light brown hair with a bit of grey, 5' 10 1/2"
What are you talking about Christos, the cabinet? I find out what the client wants, look at their existing furniture etc discuss colour and features (this will/should look like it was put in the shop about 1920 by the time I'm finished). This one has to line up with an existing stone bench top, jut out into a plate glass shop window, cut back away from the front door at 45 deg, has a hob to jump, power points and a pabx phone box to miss, an uneven (very) floor and had to be made in pieces to get it in the door. Colour is to match (roughly) an existing bench.
Did I miss anything Christos
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