CONSTRUCTION OF THE BAR

While the bar concept was finalized, I had reached the stage of building my proposed illuminated whiskey shot glass bar. Making this model was one that I much enjoyed and learned from. The CNC router is truly an amazing and expensive piece of machinery that allowed me to create my bar with precision and great accuracy. I must mention Des Smith and Shane Warren for their much appreciated help as this project could not have been done without their help and assistance.

Being the task of using one 1200 x 2400 Piece of MDF board. I was limited to what I could build with this requirement and I had managed to do so just!!!. I used a 6mm MDF sheet and cut my design to the sheet using the CNC router. I was then able to sand down every piece that was cut to refine the bar. The design is of a layered sheet of 6mm MDF and a space of 6mm in between every layer. The concept of layers and curves form my DDI project that was applied to the bar as my DDI building used a bar within it, allowing for free flowing light to pass through the sheets and shot glasses and bottles within it.

I did not use any nails or other physical fixings in this development as I tried to keep the nature of the MDF as pure as possible. I think it is an overused material, but on the contrary still a nice clean material.

The final design accounts for;
- 15 x shotglasses
- 2 x bottles of 1 Liter Jim Beam Black and Jack Daniels
- 1 x illuminated lamp that light up the bookcase in my room as well as lighting the bar.

I was planning to place a last minute cigar bar underneath it but didn't want to promote tobacco advertising, and also the reason that the old man would actually use it, not good for his health either. Although Mr. Rudd will have to do more than increase the tax on alcohol (alcoho pop) tax scheme to prevent me for building the bourbon bar, lol.

While the construction of the bar was relatively smooth as good planning prevented much from going wrong, The shot glass holes were left with a connecting piece so it wouldn't flip up and hit the router and therefore break it. So it was a tedious procedure to smooth it out to make it look as if it was done so in the router trouble free... this effect was accomplished but at the cost of some serious time!!!