Rich people and their egos, you gotta love them!

Great job and probably a profitable one as well. I need about three off these. I hope the customer is happy with your work because it is really excellent.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Hole-eee-smokes Pop!!! I must say you do some pretty awesome projects. Of course I would of bought that 10’ Big screen but I don’t have a wall in my house that is long enough!!!:-)

-- Woodworking is Life. Anything before or after is just waiting.--S. McQueen sort of

Stunning work. The ceilings really bring an extra something to the whole area.
I can’t tell the difference at all from these pictures of the two species.

-- Still learning everything

That came out just fantastic. Thanks for the info on the sapele and mahogany…I did not know that.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

wow ! everytime i look at your projects i get missing atlanta terribly ! i ran a trim business out of buford and worked all the grand country clubs around atlanta . i guess i got spoiled and when i moved here i was so disgusted with the industry here i went back in the autobody trade for three yr.s while i searched out the more upscale work . you do some very fine work my friend i might add ive switched to sapele as well and ive been quite happy with it

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

Huge project! It certainly came out great.

-- Maplewood, MN

WOW! Nice work.

-- bryano

Absolutely impressive in both the size of this project, and the quality of the workmanship.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Really nice project Pop. Unlike MrTrim, i dont tend to miss Atlanta. I got stuck in a 3 hour traffic jam there yesterday! Grrrrrrrrr

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

i was doin such a great job of blockin out the down side too !

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

Very impressive job, Pop!! Thanks for the tip on sapele!

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards

Boy oh boy…....You guys here at LJ never cease to amaze me…..... such nice work..

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

Wow…that is amazing! You guys do unbelievable work..that is one hell of a project to even take on and you executed it perfectly! 3500 board feet…man!

-- Women love me.....trees fear me

Great Job. A beautiful design. Did you do the designing also or was that done by an architect?

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Wowsers!! What an excellent basement! You’ll get a call from me if I ever hit the lotto!

-- Living on the square...

Wow, enough said.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Incredible. You really don’t see much of this type of work anymore due to the expense and lack of skilled craftsmen. Nice to see both still come together occasionally.

I agree about the use of sapele. I just glued up a replacement swim platform on my ski boat using quartered sapele instead of mahogany. It is beautiful stuff, works really well, and is very hard to distinguish from its cousin. Plus, it was about $2/ft cheaper.

-- Just another woodworker

We do all the designing on our jobs unless there is an architect or designer involved and then things can really get tricky! No third party here though, It was tricky enough!
Meranti is another import that we have substituted for mahogany, the availability has dwindled somewhat, but it might be worth a try also. Here is my only before photo of this job

-- Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down http://woodworkingtipsfrompop.com

Absolutely terriffic!

Did you make the parts like cornices & carvings, or buy them from an Outwater or Osborne type of outfit?

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