My summer project
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Re: My summer project
It’s challenging to level the bottom, if you are not cutting trough- the shape is easy
Edit can be done with a hand router like this Sorry for my dirty hands. I am sanding a center console for my boat
Edit can be done with a hand router like this Sorry for my dirty hands. I am sanding a center console for my boat
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Re: My summer project
I’ve found some square shaped bottles that I think I’ll order and use simply so that the cutting of the foam will be easier. Also, the smaller dimensions of these bottles will allow for a far better layout - 4 bottles for spirits, 2 bottles for mixers, with easily enough room for four glasses and the shaker/mixing glass. With the depth of the suitcase, it looks like O can cut simple holes out to stand the jigger and some bitters straight up in the foam.
I’m getting super excited! I hope the finished product lives up to my expectations. Again, thanks for the tip about the Kaizen foam.
Drew
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Re: My summer project
A worthy project indeed Andrew, great idea, straight out of the Golden Age!
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Re: My summer project
I know you said no to the ice idea, but what about some of the whiskey/whisky stones? Have them in the case and freeze them each day. And they don’t melt to solve any water issue.
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Re: My summer project - UPDATE
It’s done! And it turned out better than I thought it would!
A quick summary of what I did:
A quick summary of what I did:
- Decorated the outside with vintage travel stickers
- Suede-lined (well, fake suede actually) foam insert to hold spirit flasks, glasses, a cocktail shaker, and two little bottles of Luxardo cherries (a must!)
- 4 of the flasks are etched with letters for the spirit they contain; the two non-etched ones will be for mixers
- Travel themed cocktail napkins in the upper left pocket, a vintage bar tool set in the upper right
- Four coasters in a side pocket, and finally
- A cutting board
Drew
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Re: My summer project
That did turn out great! Love the etched bottles. Have any plans for its first outing?
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Re: My summer project
Wow! A totally pukka thing! Congratulations on the vision and the end result
watching you fail in your quest for a “one watch” has been great entertainment
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Re: My summer project
My wife and I have a four day weekend get away coming up - two nights in Annapolis, MD, and two nights in Ocean City, MD, with friends at their beach house. We will christen it then…..assuming I can fit it in my Miata with our luggage!
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Re: My summer project
Looks great well done. Just don’t get too drunk and forget where you left it....
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Re: My summer project
great result andrew
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Re: My summer project
Very cool Andrew, reminds me of the 1930s and 1950s picnic suitcases I used to find in Greenwich Market, London. Great result!
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Re: My summer project
That’s a cool out come...personal wouldn’t have put the stickers on, would have put my own on of places I had visited
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