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OK, if you want the top 4.5 wide (52" deep), I would make the base in panels 24 wide by 36 deep...gives you 8-10" overhang either side depending on how you adjust the top. Build the frame from finger-jointed 2x3 (guaranteed straight) and 1/4 ply gussets with pocket holes as need. Screw/glue assembly. Put Mission, modern, or whatever style fascia on it once the frame is installed.

Thats a BIG bar, most pubs are 24-30". Just measured it, my kitchen table is 36 inch and its too big for the room.

<edit> I can build it for ya, aint helping you haul it up no stairs, and shipping is gonna cost unless you can steal something with a sling underneath !!!!

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quote Originally posted by blackrams: Considering everything you've stated. The reason I'm looking for someone to build this is, I gave up all my wood working tools years ago and to go out and buy new tools for one project is kind of wasteful. I don't plan on building furniture for others or myself. I simply want this (dry) wet bar for entertaining purposes. The size I want is because I have a very big bonus room. 30X38 feet above my garage. It needs furniture and I already have the lumber. A little over 25 years ago, I had a pond dug on a different property. The area where the pond was planned had some very large White Oak trees that had to be dozed out. I saved several of the trunks and had took them to the saw mill and had them milled into dimensional lumber for a particular project and have quite a bit of it left over. All of it is 1 3/4" thick, 8" wide and about 11 feet long minus shrinkage. I probably have about 40 pieces of this left and I want to use the prettiest grain stock to build this "Wet Bar". My biggest issue is the lack of appropriate tools, specifically, a planer and router/jointer. If, I can get this built with the basic structure of the base as one assembled piece and the table top as a second piece that I can attach, I think I should be able to get it upstairs with only my wife providing me with supervision. Any bigger or heavier and I'm going to have to have additional muscle. Reference transporting it, cost of transporting it long distances make that a non-starter. I have my own enclosed trailers to do that but, the fuel cost could or would make this a very expensive project. Sling loading it below a "borrowed" helicopter would not be necessary, There's a Chinook unit just down the road and that A/C has the interior room needed but, I'm doubting they'll let me borrow a CH-47 over night. Rams

Ron,

I recently did something similar when I assembled/built a new kitchen for my youngest son's current house using IKEA cabinets. You can build the cabinets with a very few hand tools. This can be done in place or you can assemble each section separately and cart the section up the stairs. I did all of the assembly work in the den to minimize the mess and confusion around the house and then took the cabinets upstairs individually.The cabinets are a standard height (30" IIRC) but you can build a base to raise the height to the desired distance. If you do the top in one piece, it will likely be the heaviest thing to move. The one used in Toby's house was 12' long and about 4' in width. Since it was quartz, it took three to four people to move this top. The end result was nice looking and very functional so it may be the way to go.

Nelson

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