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Lots of man hours. And it was a pain in my @$$....lol
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Yep. I get that. The maths look fun, the doing looks a little more drawn out. I know the type. "Easy peasy"
could be trillium...
my little cactus does this about twice a year early may and again in august, blooms only last 2 days and never turn into fruit
How much of the design and fabrication do you do? Been wanting to ask that and just haven’t? Just not sure of the process you do. ……if you don’t mind explaining to an interested audience.
Marc @ripjack13 - another cool sports commentators desk alongside the SNY Mets one! But, this one you just did for the NBA Finals looks more complex + the whole world will see this when they broadcast the games! You must be proud to see your work be out in the wild.
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Not much on the design side. We have room full of incompetents to that. I just tweak it where it needs to be. I do all the fabrication on the steel and aluminum stuff. I've been doing stuff like this since 92-93. So it's easy peasy for me. I have an apprentice who just turned 21 and she does fantastic tig welding work. I do all the mig and a smidge of tig. I hate the noise when tigging aluminum so I leave most of it to her.
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Next week I'll find the plans and napkin drawings we used to make stuff. Funny story there. The designer saw it finished and said it was too small depth wise. So my handy tape measure proved him wrong. It was to his specs on the drawing.
So the second set we make next year will be bigger.
Yep they want new ones already. Lol
Each desk was 50k !!we made 2. One for each coast.
I'll set up a post soon and take a bunch of pix oc the next desk/job I do. We have one for the cowboys podcast coming up.
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There's a few compound angles there. Their 3d plans didnt translate to well to paper. Lol
So I had to rework em a few times.
I am on a set of "blueprints" right now that every room is incorrect. The cabinet drawings are totally different from the print and I was told to use the cabinet drawings to determine the room dimensions... Then I was told that the boss wasn't too sure of his cabinet drawings in the one room that sets the size for 2 other areas. "Easy peasy"
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I love when that happens. Lol
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Thanks man. I get kinda giddy when I see stuff on tv I helped make...still.
@ripjack13 and @2feathers Creative Making - them damn designers @Mike Hill ! All that time they spend drawing these up, making a ton of money and they can’t communicate what they want to get build? So you guys want me to hand you a bunch of my CAD drawings to get some design done interior related? Lol. Frank- I emphathized with you man and a word of advise because what you have is a nightmare waiting to happen- ask them for drawing revisions before you can re-attack the work to be executed. That just puts you in the spot where all things can go wrong and it is their word against yours. So cover your a$$ because you don’t want to have to put out and redo it again because it will cost you time and $$$$.
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Fortunately this is an hourly job and I am not the big boss. He will have to sign off on my drawings and that will be it from my side. The rest is between the homeowner and the owner of the business that I work for. I brought the drawings home over this weekend to do just that.
That is so cool Marc. Thanks for sharing. Knew you had been in the business a while. Neat to see “under” the shell, especially thinking about all the electronics they have these days.
Ours are just breaking leaf bud now. We get flowers often around the first day of summer.
Canadian smoke in northcentral PA tonight.
Poconos, visibility 1/4 to 1/2 mile.