This might be hard to admit but...

I do it all the time . Most of the time i build my birdhouses in the house during the winter time . The only way i can get them out is by taking out my 6 ft patio door .

-- John in Belgrave ,(Slideshow http://cid-69bce320c6d8b119.spaces.live.com/ (Website) http://www.extremebirdhouse.com

All right, before someone else posts this for me-

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Lew

The only reason I have not started the construction of a Kayak….......No way I could get the thing out of the basement shop, and the garage is just to cold….....

-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/

More times than I’d like to cop to. Last time was with the jambs for a sliding glass door with arched transom above. I had to put it together on the floor as there would be no way to connect the legs to the head in place as there was pre-installed masonry blocking nailing access and I didn’t want the nails to show. I thought I had plenty of overhead what with a cathedral ceiling and all, and the room was large enough by a good deal but . . .
the room in which it was built was adjacent to the one in which it was installed. Still no problem, or so I thought but the combination of of 9 1/2 foot jamb length, 12 foot and change overall height, closet placement, and lack of motivated help nearly got the better of me. In the end it all worked out but it points out the occasional demand for an assistant that shares your vision and won’t simply lie down and quit.

I know nothing… nothing!

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Not me:

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I built two 8 X 16 conference tables for the Bank of North Dakota. They wanted them delivered to the loading dock and they would move them in. When I went to do the bid I wanted to see where they were going to go. They assured me they would go up the inside stair case and it was not necessary to measure. I told them OK, but I was not responsible if they did not fit.

Now for the rest of the story! The tables did not fit in the stair case and they had to hire a moving company to move them in. The building was 6 stories high and the tables were giong on the sixth floor. There was a closed in fire escape on the outside of the building. The grating on each floor was removed, the door on the 6th floor was removed and they pulled the tables up with block and tackle. They put scratches on both tops, broke top mouldings off and ripped a keel board loose from one of the legs. Then I get a call asking me if I can fix them! I said yes, but alot of the work would have to be done on sight. I also told them that it would be time and material, NO Bid. That is the only time I got payed twice for the same tables. I never did find out what they paid for the moving job and who ended up paying my bill.

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Not yet :)

Callum

-- For wood working podcasts with a twist check out http://thetimberkid.com/

on my first adirondack chair, I learned the arms need to be attached after the chair is out of the basement shop.

-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com

LOL! What a silly thing to do. Glad it never happened to me. Oh yeah, except for that… and that… :)

-- I'm a wood magician... I can turn fine lumber into firewood before your very eyes! - http://www.woodworkersguide.com

((blinking innocently))
of course my Fairy Doors fit!! :D
We won’t talk about zillion other projects that have made us sweat. I’m 5 foot tall and I have to duck my head at the bottom step of our basement stairs.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’m in the middle of building a wall unit that needs to be assembled in the room it will be in.

-- don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things

Once, a wardrobe I made for a client. Fortunately it was about 6” narrower than it was high, and I was able to lay it on it’s side, on some blankets, and get it out. Of course we had to do the same thing to get it into his house.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

It’s a good thing the catamaran sailboat I built was made so it could come apart.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

There is an advantage to being a wimp! I have designed several large projects, but because I can never lift parts of them when assembling, I always have to ask my husband for help. When they get big enough to require his help, I can be pretty certain that I need to move them to their final destination before final assembly.

Case in point: I came up with what I thought was a brilliant design for a combination couch and bed on casters. The bed was 3/4 size (48” width) that would slide into storage under a stairway. The couch was built onto the end of the bed to close the opening where the bed stored. It was designed and built for a studio apartment. I realized that I would not be able to move this contraption into the apartment fully assembled and planned to attach the bed to the sofa after moving it. However, the sofa turned out to be too large to move through either entrance so it was completed in the apartment as well. The real plus was that we never had to worry about a tenant stealing the couch/bed when he moved out!

-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6

I came so very close to this one. I built a very tall armoire to house my fold up deck treadmill. Pretty slick project that adds some class to ugly fitness equipment. I have all the side and back panels glued and the joinery cut and was about to glue them when I thought, “I wonder if this will fit into the basement” Quick measurement check and it wouldn’t have fit through the door or have been about to stand upright from horizontal with only 8’ ceilings. Some changes to the rabbets and some knock down hardware later and I dodged that bullet.

-- Check out my blog and podcast "The Renaissance Woodworker" at www.rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog

Several years ago I built a huge wardrobe on command. It was not the first time I had to take care of all the circumstances to decide how to design and construct a furniture so that it would pass through doors or narrow staircases. I did it once more. The client, Juan, lived one of the very few 20th floor in town. I took all the parts to his garage, and from his garage to the main entrance by stairs: I knew this was the way. I began taking all the parts by lift to the 20th floor, but the four last heavy pieces to build the frame did not fit in. For a large while a experienced a great despair and a even greater exhaustion in advance. We couldn’t find a way to get those parts in the lift. In the last moment, we asked about removing some parts of the lift’s cabin deck and after waiting for the reluctant janitor to disappear after his working day, we got those parts in the lift. My dear, I felt really relaxed at the end of that day. On the other hand, my personal record is an eight floor, but that was not a mistake: I decided conciouslly to use the stairs. It was enough.

-- Alejandro Moreno, CANARY ISLANDS