cirles vs parabolas

I was on the moda cocina web site today. they are a primarily a cabinet maker in Hyde Park, although it looks like they are making flooring and are willing to do Mill work as well. I have to say that is a very good web site, I spent alot of time there it shows that much thought went into it. they seem like a very good company with loads of skill and experience, they have a CNC machine and do thick highly polished finishes.

I attended an NKBA meeting today at the design center in Boston, it was very interesting being the first time I have been there. It is much bigger than I thought, and it looks like the business opportunities for me there are endless. I spent some of my own time looking at the cabinet makers there, all the big name guys have showrooms there. I was attending the student chapter of the NKBA meeting. that is students of the Boston Architectural College. there is another NKBA meeting that I hope to attend Oct 27th, it is a seminar focused around estimating in a bad economy, that one should be interesting.

The work kept going at the shop, Esteban is working on job 119, that is the mahogany library, he is building the panels now but not gluing them up just cutting the parts and getting ready for the glue ups, which we will start to do next. Marlo our newest hire has been working more with the finishing, sanding, priming. Gagan started working on some curved top cased openings for job 99. WE use a vacuum press for doing the laminating. We are making a elliptical top cased opening for this same job. We have made several samples of the ellipse for the client to approve. the first one was a perfect ellipse and it looks kind of stale, perfect circles and ellipses do that when you incorporate them into a design. SO we made another sample with a French curve or better known as the parabola. All the samples are up on the wall where they will be going in full scale for the client to approve one of them. DOing all the samples was is how we provide our clients with better service, we are actually trying to exceed the expectations of our clients.