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I took a job couple years ago for a bike riding buddy on building a Craftsman fence and gates to his property. The giant gate up front will be fun and interesting to engineer along with others around the property. All mortise and tenant with square pegs. You bet your ass it will have SS screws and bolts but it will never show. Automatic gates will have a metal skeleton wrapped with lumber. It will be thick with pieces glued together to create the width needed then band saw out. Sadly, I haven't had time to start it yet. Been really busy with other projects and he know me and our work very well, so he's been waiting. My local lumber yard will love me because we will order a ton of cedar, Custom milling of T n G for the panels on the fence. It will be milled to 6/4, 2.5" in width for strength sitting inside a frame every 6' up the back hillside of the property.
It seems we are involved in none standard jobs like this very often. We just bid it out as such and pad it due to unknown issues especially the engineering aspect of it and sometimes design in the details. I have been fired by his architect twice on the remodel of his home. This will make it the third time I am sure because I will call out his BS design or lack of it. My job is to protect my friend or the home owner that's paying the bill not some dumb lazy, chip on their shoulder architects.
Jobs like your Azumaya are really fun and challenging to do. Show us some pics when you are done with it
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