Bar Building - Flamingo Lounge

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"Jay Pique" <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've agreed to fabricate and install a wooden foot rail on a friend's
> bar. Initially I thought he simply wanted me to intall a metal rail,
> but he now wants a "Jay Pique Original" or something like that.
>
> I'm toying with the idea of slicing the weathered edge off of some oak
> barnwood, and finishing the freshly exposed surface - which will be
> the top of the rail. What I'm looking for is some type of bracket
> into or onto which said wooden foot rail will attach.
>

Don't know how big your piece of oak will be Jay, but there are common
handrail brackets available at almost every hardware store. They're made to
mount a handrail a couple of inches from the wall. If you need more than
that you can look at places that supply bars - I'm sure you'd find like
items there.
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-Mike-
mike6963REMOVE@alltel.net

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:40:48 -0500, Jay Pique <JayPique@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I've agreed to fabricate and install a wooden foot rail on a friend's
>bar. Initially I thought he simply wanted me to intall a metal rail,
>but he now wants a "Jay Pique Original" or something like that.
>
>I'm toying with the idea of slicing the weathered edge off of some oak
>barnwood, and finishing the freshly exposed surface - which will be
>the top of the rail. What I'm looking for is some type of bracket
>into or onto which said wooden foot rail will attach.
>
>Any ideas?

I've been thinking a bit, and what I might do is take a spoke shave
and round the ends to 1.5" so they'll fit into "standard" bar rail
brackets. Maybe...

JP
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Too big...proportionally?