my bar build-tracking my progress here-

[Tripod]

got the stuff stained last night. it looks AWESOME!

Goodgodman this is looking really great! I just noticed the old-timey phone hanging up in the background of the last photo. Is that an actual working bar-phone or is it just there for coolness?

-Tripod

 

[chainsawbrewing]

Goodgodman this is looking really great! I just noticed the old-timey phone hanging up in the background of the last photo. Is that an actual working bar-phone or is it just there for coolness?

-Tripod

thanks!

it's a working phone, but we don't even have "land line" phone service at the house, so it's just for coolness right now.

 

[Chosenwon]

Sooo jealous...

 

[Tripod]

thanks!

it's a working phone, but we don't even have "land line" phone service at the house, so it's just for coolness right now.

Prosted!

 

[chainsawbrewing]

started putting the caps on the bartop last night.
here's a few photos, had a lil help from my friends.

i just brushed on a layer of poly on the top, and then stuck the caps on it, and "dribbled" some poly on top of the caps, in hopes it would sort of "stick" them to the top so that when i poured the epoxy, it wouldn't make the caps float all around, and this morning they were stuck, so woo hoo, it should work!

us sorting through the caps-

the mug holder/shelf thingie

 

[android]

dude, money bar. love the light up blocks, the top, trim, it's all nice! can't wait to see the shot of a bunch of peeps in it drinking all your brew.

 

[Yambor44]

This is so awesome!!! Great job Brian!!

 

[chainsawbrewing]

update_

glycol lines/trunk line has been completed, five perlick 525ss faucets are hooked up to 4" shanks onto a license plate box thingie i made, bartop is completely covered in caps now, 5 coats of poly on all the trim. all i really have left to do is a little bit more trim around the license plate piece, a little bit of trim around the corner of where the glass blocks meet, and epoxy over the caps, and barstools. woohoo! beer is flowing now!

 

[chainsawbrewing]

sorry for the links, instead of the photos. i just realized i've been "demoted" to just "regular" member, and i don't have the cash to re-upgrade because well, i've been spending every last penny building a kick ass bar! :cross:





im using the magic chef 7.2cf freezer, it holds six kegs. five are for beer, and one is a corny with a bad lid, i took the lid off, and have a pond pump in the bottom of it pulling glycol/water mix up and out of the keezer through 1/2" id vinyl hose through the wall, then it's got 90 degree brass fittings to send it back into the keezer and returns back into the keg.



the five beer lines are then black taped directly next to those two 1/2" glycol lines, and the whole assembly was wrapped in pipe insulation, and then three layers of duct tape wrapped all around the insulation making my own sort of makeshift trunk line. it is working just fine so far!

 

[chainsawbrewing]

 

[BeerBudha]

looks awsome, makes me want to start mine.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Are you going to fill in the bar top with resin?

 

[chainsawbrewing]

Are you going to fill in the bar top with resin?

yes
10chars

 

[Cape Brewing]

phew... I thought you were saying the bar top was done... man, that would be a pain to keep clean!

Looks great though

 

[humann_brewing]

This is a freakin' sweet setup you have there!

 

[brrman]

I am really impressed - the backlit glass blocks are friggin sweet!

 

[chainsawbrewing]

I am really impressed - the backlit glass blocks are friggin sweet!

thanks man. i really like your bar too. and hey, we're both in indianapolis, so we'll have to bar swap sometime, lol.

 

[drez77]

Do you have the pump and the glycol on all the time?

Interesting idea and somehitng I may have to borrow

 

[shecky]

With the possible exception of ****ies, that is quite simply the greatest thing I've ever seen. My man-crush has grown exponentially larger. Nice job.

 

[Sigafoos]

I like all of the repurposed stuff you have: records, bottle caps, license plates... I'm totally living vicariously through you

 

[chainsawbrewing]

Do you have the pump and the glycol on all the time?

Interesting idea and somehitng I may have to borrow

yes, it constantly runs. i saw other that had done it before, with the pond pumps that you can get at your local home improvement stores, and have had them on and running for over two years constant, and still going strong.
i only have about 6 inches of exposed/non chilled beer line running at the very top of the run, out of the glycol/insulated trunk line to the back of the shanks.

i've seen others that have actually ran the glycol out and around the ends of the shanks, but i decided against that, and i'm doing fine, at least so far, without it.

 

[chainsawbrewing]

With the possible exception of ****ies, that is quite simply the greatest thing I've ever seen. My man-crush has grown exponentially larger. Nice job.

well, when it's all completely done, and i get around to renewing my membership status, i might have some photos posted in a place that is not to be spoken of, that might just make your man crush grow to extremes that you might propose to me.

:rockin:

 

[sethful]

can't wait to see the final product. The build looks good!

 

[brrman]

thanks man. i really like your bar too. and hey, we're both in indianapolis, so we'll have to bar swap sometime, lol.

hellz yeah we need to check out the bars in person.

 

[chainsawbrewing]

no pictures today, but spent the last two days epoxying the bartop.
WOW! you need a lot of epoxy.
i used envirotex lite.
on tuesday i poured one gallon, and let it dry overnight, then yesterday i wiped it down with alcholol and poured one more gallon and one quart. this morning i looked, and i'm going to need one more gallon, and then *hope* that that will be all i need.
right now about 97% of all the bottlecaps just have like maybe 1/16" still showing on the top of the epoxy, like you rub your hand over it, and you barely fell little "nub" of bottlecaps poking up, and about 3% on one end has maybe 3/16" hanging out still.

it's crazy, this epoxy is going to be the most expensive part of the actual bar. more than the blocks, more than all the lumber for it even, well except for the bar railing, that crap was pricey too.

swmbo has been TERRIBLY understanding though thruout the whole thing. she's just now started saying "what? you need MORE money? how much money have you spent on this? oh well, it'll be done soon, and we'll have a lot of fun with it."

wish me luck tonight! only one more coat, keep your fingers crossed for me.

 

[brrman]

yeah I remember when I was doing my bar, the epoxy was an extremely expensive part of the project

 

[chainsawbrewing]

here's a few photos for updates. i made some tap handles out of solid wood mini sized bowling pins. they were in the clearance aisle at meijer. i'll label them on the front eventually, for each different beer, might just go with something as simple as number, 1 thru 5 on them, with a chalkboard beside the taps with the beer names on them.

also got some bar stools, they're just regular "cheapo" stools for now. my dream bar stools are a bit out of my price range right now, i will get them in a few months. got a little bit of graffiti work on the walls, and also a little bit more misc. crap hung up on the wall, and the corner of the glass blocks face has been trimmed out completely.
i have two kegs of death by dunkel, and one tap of a classic american pilsner for the bmc drinkers.
i still need to get some can lights up above the bar top, to brighten the place up a little bit, and i have to get a sleeper sofa for the back wall adjacent from the bar, and my stripper pole installed. the "official" unveiling is in two weeks for my 30th birthday party.

 

[chainsawbrewing]

 

[drez77]

I like the tap markers .. those are neat .. remind me of the ones from Ska Brewing

 

[chainsawbrewing]

I like the tap markers .. those are neat .. remind me of the ones from Ska Brewing

ska brewing? never heard of it. i assume it's somehow related to the jamacian calypso swing mixed with american r&b? a bunch of two tone rude boys that brew? with beer names like extra the specials bitter? or mighty mighty hopstones?