That's really cool LeeRoy. I have always thought that if you never look at your earlier work and find things to improve, then you haven't progressed. You do beautiful work.
We had a 're-do' about 4 months ago. There was a small fire in a house and the fire dept. pretty much flooded the whole house. The stairs were pretty badly water damaged.
The customer wanted new stairs, exactly the same footprint as the old except Maple instead of Red Oak, solid treads instead of plywood. After the bid was excepted, I got the guys to go to the house and pull the old stairs out and bring them back to the shop so we could duplicate them accurately.
Once they unloaded them and had them in the shop it was a flood of memories. We built them in 1993 and I don't even really remember the build it's self….but once I got looking at them, I noticed a lot of measures, numbers and notes on the underside of the treads, risers and stringers…from myself and 2 other guys I worked with for quite a few years….it was actually a pretty quiet moment. I can't even really describe it….It didn't help matters any that the 2 punk ass kids that unloaded the stairs weren't even born yet when I built them!
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