Ben Uyeda from HomeMade Modern is an architect turned woodworker turned general contractor. He was hired to design the flagship store for a shoe company called Greats. (Www.greats.com)
He did the design and build out in 20 days with two X-Carves running 8 hours a day. He had a small crew working with him and they made an impressive profit on the job.
Here are some pictures from the job.
Pretty cool. That is a lot of plywood and a lot of carving.
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It was made from the least expensive plywood sold at Home Depot.
Turned out cool that is all that matters. Cheaper the material the more money in his pocket.
Sweet! @Zach_Kaplan, any idea how those are mounted?
I believe the layers are glued and there are 2 wood screws at the top and the bottom that go through the pedestals into the wall.
I posted a video of the shoe store being made. Check it out!
Yea, I think his background is in architecture. He was going for Instagramable.
Bens IG is pretty awesome! I have been following him for some time!
Yea this is like if that staircase he made became a shoe store. I really like what he did with the shoebox inventory in the back. The design is clever.
I agree that the shoe box inventory was really clever! I like how you word that! “Yea this is like if that staircase he made became a shoe store.” Im glad he carried the design element of stacked plywood over into this project. It really shows how this design technique can be used across a range of different applications.
Hey @AngusMcleod how much plywood are you talking about?
Homemademodern just put a video out on the project. its a cool project. I made a stacked ply cat feeder a few months ago. I love the look and I am planning on making some stacked ply furniture for my wife’s office.
After watching the video he could of saved like 1500 doing the nesting like this that’s crazy haha
@AngusMcleod My example was just to show the idea, I didn’t want to try to explain what I was thinking. I know it would take more cuts.
Angus where are you located??? Thats crazy expensive for ply!!!
I would guess the trade off is worth it!!!
Saint Lawrence Gap! had some fun times there.
