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Notes from the shop

How we build commercial millwork, fixtures, signs and installations at 6401 Airport Blvd in Austin, and what to send us when you have a job.

Restaurant entry under a skylight with a pierced metal star lantern, wood wall panels, a turquoise tile counter and screens of stacked rolling pins in a wood lattice

How long does restaurant millwork take?

. Start-to-opening dates from four Austin-area restaurant jobs, and the steps that set the pace of a millwork schedule.
Dark green paneled walls with brass sconces above a long banquette, under a curved slatted ceiling, at Jupiter Supper Club

How a commercial millwork job runs at our shop

. What happens between the drawing set and opening day, with examples from Jupiter Supper Club, Honest Mary's and Serranos Lakeline.
Two people at the controls of an Anderson Spectrum CNC router with a sheet on the bed and dust collection hoses overhead

How to send us a DXF for CNC cutting

. What to include with a cutting file, which materials we cut, and the size and corner limits of our routers.
Reception desk with a glass display case holding an old plow, lit green with contour lines on the glass, and the John Deere leaping-deer logo on the end panel

Planning a custom reception desk

. What a desk has to hold, what to send us, and how we showed John Deere's Austin office its desk before we built it.
Black sign column with a tenant directory listing Luma, Oak & Vine, Pure, Gather and Muse, with the Willa name lit in blue

Planning wayfinding signs for a development or venue

. What to send for a sign job, with a lit sign column for StoryBuilt's Willa and carved trail signs for Jester King.
Lounge with leather chairs and a green sofa in front of a row of booths with plywood frames and corrugated panels in tan and brown

Building store fixtures for more than one location

. How we built, flat-packed and shipped twelve booths for an Ephemeral tattoo studio, and what to send when a fixture package has to repeat.