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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

styles and rails

 
here are some parts ready for assembly. You can see the mortise and tenon, we use a floating tenon most cases it is just easier and faster to fabricate. There is only one set-up on the mortise machine, and the tenons are cut in lineal stock and the cross cut accordingly. Purest would argue that the joint is not as good. Most of the industry has excepted the fact that a floating tenon is just fine. For us, we are trying to offer our clients a good value, happy ground between price and quality.
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Monday, July 20, 2009

another completed kitchen

 
This is our most recently finished kitchen, it is in a high rise that over looks the Charles river. As you can tell it is a modern style. the trick here is all in the alignment, yea it is easy to cut and edge the panels but is it requires great forethought to make sure that every thing aligns.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

 
love this kind of stuff
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catching mistakes

we are working on 99 and 113 currently, as well as I am installing 77. I have come across a mistake with the cabinets for 99. Only two of them were made to deep, luckily it is a easy fix and we will do that here in the shop. I feel good about it, what is important is that we caught the mistake early and can fix, at all cost we want to avoid having to change things out in the field during install. It is difficult and doesn't look good in the eyes of the client or anyone else that is watching.

113 is a number of Shoji doors for one of our most prestigious clients FH Perry Builders. We are very stressed out right now trying to make sure that these doors come absolutely perfect.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

new van interior

 
 
 
OK, three different set-ups depending on what I need to carry. Hungry Coyote, only what I need and nothing more, everything in this set-up has a specific intent relative to cabinet/millwork instalation.
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new rules at staff meeting today

Now we are at about half capacity of work load. The staff is having to work smaller weeks some down to three days and others limited to 40 no over time. Which is unusual for us, typically we all work 50 plus hours per week. I still work 50 plus. When the guys are in times like these it is hard to create a sense of urgency in the everyday work. I tried to explain today at the staff meeting that we need the same work done in less time. Truthfully, that is what the market demands of us for survival. Something else that i mentioned at the staff meeting today is that from now on Kaizen events will be mandatory for continued employment. I will chose the topics and assign them ahead of time. Being slow for me has its advantages, although I am worried about where the money is going to come from I don't feel overwhelmed by work. I give so much to my work that I over book myself, that has to change. Now I am not overbooked and I feel great about my daily life, I am not playing catch-up, I am caught up. We have made some great advance of our infrastructure in the recent weeks. I will put up some photo's of Gagan's home made vacuum lamination table. Also I re-built the interior of the van, to which I love, and wish I had done sooner.

As for jobs 119, is most anticipated job of any recent time a room 14' x 16' built into a mahogany library, with fire place and shelving, floor to ceiling paneling, the works!!!!! We haven't done a room like this in I think 6 or 7 years. I feel like my life's work will be accumulated here, I am doing the design as well.

Job 99 is taking shape in the shop, a large kitchen, also I feel like my life's work is accumulated here. This is being designed by Whalen Interiors in Winchester Ma. Highly desinged piece of cabinetry coming here, just the base boxes are impressive.

Job 77 is winding down, I can now see the end. I really do hope to do more work at job 77 even after these two areas are complete. It is very important as in all jobs to leave on a note where I exceeded expectations.

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