| Project by Popintraining | posted 287 days ago | 1050 views | 3 times favorited | 27 comments | ![]() |
Here is a job we worked on for about 3 months. It should have taken 2 but these people were horrible. Everything I did was questioned! I made the mistake of leaving a latter and a 1000 watt lamp on the job and he actually told me he crawled up on the ladder with the light and looked over every inch of crown molding that I installed. When I got there the next morning there were 50 little blue stickers all over the place. I took all the blue stickies off and never left the ladder or the light there again! There was also the time where she had me get on my knees to look under the inside of the bar top but, she did not have her flash light to show me the big problem. It was never ending! All I can say is that they deserved each other. We persevered though and finished, got all our money and photos so that was positive. I definitely learned a lot from this job to much to write about now! Maybe I’ll blog about it sometime, but just thinking about it gives me a headache!
The bar and moldings were all out of soft maple with a cherry stain. We fabricated the complete bar in our shop and brought it out in pieces.
-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com
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27 comments so far
DAN
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posted 287 days ago
very nice work. a whole lot of beautiful wood !
-- ..... art for lifes sake
Thos. Angle
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posted 287 days ago
Really a great job. Sometimes we just have to bite our tougue and grin and bear it. Maybe the next customer will be a pleasure to work with. That is a beautiful bar.
-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon
mot
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posted 287 days ago
Well, it sure came out nice!
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
mrtrim
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posted 287 days ago
well you might know i left my best light out at the job !! but from what i can see thats as nice a bar as ive ever seen ! i really like the niche / bench and table that really is a great touch
-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes
DocK16
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posted 287 days ago
I dunno, i can see at least fifty spots that need blue tape just from 1” x 1” piicture on my computer…LOL
some people you can never please, I’ve dealt with that type many times and they can make life miserable. When they call back for the next job at least you can say “I’m booked”
-- DocK, WV
SPalm
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posted 287 days ago
Very nice. That’s a lot of work. Looks great.
Steve
-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon
Chris
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posted 287 days ago
Great work! Some people just never appreciate the labor involved in creating something.
-- Chris
DrSawdust
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posted 287 days ago
Excellent work.
-- Making sawdust is what I do best
dennis mitchell
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posted 287 days ago
What a waste of beautiful work!
-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com
cajunpen
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posted 287 days ago
You do beautiful work. I remember an episode on Seinfeld once about the “Soup Nazi”. This guy apparently had the best soup in town and one word or look that he didn’t like would bring the dreaded words “No Soup For You”. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could run your business that way? Customers would fall in line quickly :-))
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
Colin
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posted 287 days ago
Beautiful work, you just can’t please everyone! However if you are pleased with your work that is what really matters, you will know that you have done an outstanding job.
-- Colin, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. "Every craftsman was once an amateur"
shaun
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posted 287 days ago
Looks like gorgeous work from here Bryan. People never cease to amaze me.
-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!
Tony
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posted 287 days ago
You should have told them, that any minor imperfections were unique features, that made the item unique to them and nobody else – luckily my customers beleive me and I have not had your problem. Keep up the good work – it is a most excellent project
-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)
Popintraining
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posted 287 days ago
” The Wood Nazi” I Love it!
This should be one of my Pops nicknames.
-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com
shaun
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posted 287 days ago
LOL I like Tony’s take on the situation. If that doesn’t work you could always say “ya know, I really should be charging you extra for that level of custom work”
-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!
MsDebbieP
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posted 286 days ago
reminds me of Roger’s comment about leaving the carving marks in his pieces so people know that it was carved by hand.
-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
miles125
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posted 286 days ago
There is something austere and cold about too perfect a job on woodwork. Outstanding work aint never been about perfection. Its all about allowing the humanity and soul of the maker to shine through.
Thats why a portrait is generally a helluva lot more valuable than a photograph.
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
Dadoo
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posted 286 days ago
Next time you might want to not leave the roll of blue tape behind either. LOL!
I think this bar is superb!
-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!
Gary
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posted 286 days ago
Looks good from here.
I was a commercial printing consultant in a former life. Clients like that were quoted with a very high aggravation factor fee. If they accepted the bid, it made their annoyance acceptable—they paid for
the right to be pains in the a$$. ;-0
Gary
RonR
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posted 286 days ago
Looks like a beautiful bar to me! Some people just have to find something to complain about.
-- RonR, Massachusetts
Brad_Nailor
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posted 285 days ago
Beautiful bar! You do amazing work. Maybe you should have charged him a fee to use your ladder! I used to get customers like that when I did Cable TV installs years ago. I had one guy got through every channel with me standing there and pointing out the slightest crackle or line. I made up a bunch of technical sounding crap about how the satelite was still being aligned, and the earths atmosphere affects the picture, BLAH BLAH BLAH…he just looked at me and agreed with everything I said trying to look like he knew as much as me. Baffle them with BS!
-- Women love me.....trees fear me
rikkor
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posted 285 days ago
I hope you were well paid for the effort and the grief. You should be very proud of your work.
-- Maplewood, MN
Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 285 days ago
Hi Bryan;
We all get em once in a while. And some of them, like yours are far and few between fortunately.
The job looks great, nice work.
Lee
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Abe Low
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posted 271 days ago
Reminds me of the sign in a shop: $50 per hour. $75 per hour if you watch. $100 per hour if you help. $150 per hour if you make suggestions.
-- Abe Low, Fine furniture, Sacramento, CA
TopE5
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posted 263 days ago
Sometimes I do commercial projects, or where some of our clubhouses on our multi-family jobs are more custom trim than anything. You do some of the best, and prettiest woodworking I have ever seen. The mahogany basement job, I show everyone on my jobs.
I show the people I work with allot of the work that is shown on this website, it just blows them away. I feel so amateurish compared to the majority of the people in here.
Karson
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posted 263 days ago
Great job. and hope the the customers come back at a higher fee.
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com
jcees
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posted 242 days ago
They’re EVERYWHERE!!! I don’t care what line you’re in, the b—tards are there to make you jump through burning hoops for their pleasure alone. The fact that they are paying you makes some believe that you are their special plaything. All you can do is good honest work, collect your geld and get the heck out of there and pray they don’t ever call you again. If they do just add a zero to your quote.
always,
J.C.
-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein