Our Home Pub Project

[Vigo_Carpathian]

Wow thats awesome

 

[rockinmarty]

Next progression

Dude what's a can of Molson Canadian doing on your bar?

Great build!

 

[kenmyfam]

Dude what's a can of Molson Canadian doing on your bar?

Great build!

Left here by a friend that came over. I felt obliged to drink it

 

[kenmyfam]

I don't think it's finished but so far it looks great!!

What is the bar top going to be made of?

Solid piece of oak. Difficult finding a piece that's 10ft long but it is ordered and coming out of the kiln in a few days time. Armrail will prove to be tricky I think.

 

[EZCyclone]

Ken, to bad you arn't closer to me, I'd be glad to let you into my cabinet shop! And not 10 miles down the road is a sawyer that has all the Oak you can shake a stick at for $2/bf.

Something I see as a possible add would be one of two things, at the very least, if it were my bar I would add a baseboard (probably like six inches or so) made from the same wood/stain combo of your front and back bar. It is just a finishing touch that can really pull your front and back bar together into one product. The other option I would suggest is to do a wainscoting of a thin sheet (.25 maybe?) of your material stained and tacked on the wall between the to bars. It could then later be removed easily as I saw you didn't build your bars in permanently. Just my thoughts, any way you look at it it's very beautiful!

 

[kenmyfam]

Thanks so much for the input. I wish I was closer as well to have a good line on oak !!!!
The original plan was baseboard in between. The entire room currently has no baseboard as I have re-modelled after a full teardown. However I like the thin sheet suggestion a lot. Much appreciated.

 

[EZCyclone]

You bet. just cap it with a nice decorative trim and it will look perfect. that said if you do base board around the rest of the room, I think I'd do the thin board AND still but base board along the bottom.

 

[kenmyfam]

You bet. just cap it with a nice decorative trim and it will look perfect. that said if you do base board around the rest of the room, I think I'd do the thin board AND still but base board along the bottom.

Great advice and thank you once again. Going to go with the thin sheet and baseboard as suggested. That is as soon as I get back from vacation. leaving tomorrow evening.

 

[EZCyclone]

Can't wait to see it bud!!

 

[EZCyclone]

I need to find some buddies around here that would like to tinker in the wood shop, or the machine shop, or the robotics lab, and of course brewing!

 

[kenmyfam]

I need to find some buddies around here that would like to tinker in the wood shop, or the machine shop, or the robotics lab, and of course brewing!

Wish I was closer to your location !!!
Will post more photos after vacation.

 

[EZCyclone]

Were are you anyway? lol

 

[kenmyfam]

Were are you anyway? lol

I'm in South West Ontario, Canada about 1/2 hour east of Windsor.

 

[EZCyclone]

Hell you are only 9hours and 31 minutes from me! that's actually much closer than I would have thought. Just jump on I94 west to the quad cities, merge onto I80 and keep heading west! Easy Peasy!!

 

[kenmyfam]

Well.....not too much to update as I have been in Costa Rica on vacation and had to do the "catch up" thing at work after coming home. Bar counter top oak is now out of the kiln and ready for pick up. Will be working on this over the coming weekend. In the meantime the optic dispensers are up on an oak back board and the drum set is stained and has it's first coat of the shiny stuff applied and another coat to the main bar front. Smaller drums are inside the bigger drums.
More to follow as things progress.

 

[mhespenh]

Seriously, awesome.

 

[kenmyfam]

Bar countertop arrives tomorrow it will be all systems go to get it finished and fitted. Be a while with the stain and shiny stuff though. It will be getting a LOT of coats and sandings between coats.
In the meantime I have done a lot of cleaning up, been on a business trip and over the weekend got the drum set hardware back on, added three over the bar smaller pot lights with dimmer switch and finished the bar switch panel off. Then baseboard, door trim and we are ready to start putting all the "pub" stuff in place. Oh, almost forgot the stemware rack is stained and has it's first coat of the shiny stuff currently drying.
The "site foreman" is as usual sitting on the cardboard box "supervising"

 

[EZCyclone]

About damn time! MORE!!!

 

[kenmyfam]

About damn time! MORE!!!

Bar top will be the "biggie" and I have to be home to do stuff !!!

 

[kenmyfam]

Stemware rack finished, fitted and in place. A few sample glasses in place on it. Watch this space for the bar counter top.

 

[kenmyfam]

Bar countertop is on, finish fitted in place and first coat of stain is currently drying. Second coat tomorrow night then the shiny stuff on the weekend. Couple more photos in the next post.

 

[kenmyfam]

Here's a couple more.

 

[bsomogyi]

Wow. Spectacular woodworking skills!

 

[Anon]

incredible

 

[Pomylka22]

Looks Awesome!! Gives me some inspiration to start dreaming!

 

[user 51917]

Sweeeeeet

 

[kenmyfam]

Thanks guys. Bar top is hopefully the show piece of the whole thing. It's what everybody sees when they come.

 

[kenmyfam]

Baseboard done and in place, door trim done and in place, 2nd coat of the shiny stuff on the bar top. 3rd coat tomorrow and so on for a while. Then clean all the dust and crap out and start moving all the bells and whistles in place. The light is at the end of the tunnel and it's getting bigger.
Popcorn anyone ???

 

[kenmyfam]

Couple more

 

[JohnGonk]

Looks pretty damn nice! I would add a cot since I wouldn't leave that room lol.