Post #783997 by kahalakruzer on Fri, Feb 16, 2018 7:54 AM

I found a few more photos of the bar in the warehouse at various stages. Nothing too spectacular, but you'll get the idea.

And here's the start of the actual bar. I wanted to go with kind of a nautical theme on this one. The top and base of the bar are made of glued up pine boards, burned, brushed and varnished, and the center structure is just a nice finish plywood that I stained and varnished. I wanted to make the bar able to be free floating if needed, so it's actually more of a double sided bookshelf. That way we're able to showcase items/merchandise things that we've got for sale. The front posts are the standard railing posts from Oceanic Arts, and the back are 4x4's that I wrapped with about 500' of line and then shellac'd the hell out of.





You can kind of see how warped the top got after burning and brushing. it came back to really bite me in the ass after I was trying to assemble everything squarely.

I did a rope wrap on the edge of the bar so I could put some pictures and matchbooks on it and pour a bar top resin. After about 2 gallons of resin and four separate pours over 3 days, I still had two matchbooks that had a couple match heads popping out. I figure it adds to the charm... At least that's what I tell people.

Almost all of the photos on the bar are copies of actual pictures that one of the founders of our company took on a world trip in the late 1950's. He went from Hawaii to Tahiti, hopped a boat to Norway then went through Europe down to Africa and hitchhiked from Morocco to South Africa. It's actually the trip that inspired Bruce brown to make the Endless Summer. Obviously some pretty legendary photos and stories involved.

I realized I don't have any finished photos of the actual bar, so we'll have to wait for the final reveal in situ.

[ Edited by: kahalakruzer 2018-02-16 10:14 ]