Progress......We're Exhaustified!!!!!!!!!!

GREAT hands-on day today here starting to see the inside of the bar come together!  Dirty & tired, we wrapped it up around 8:30 tonight.

Oh - and, yes, one our our handful of truly COLD-ASS days here in Austin, so we tried to stay warm with a little fire.......

The day started off with some pretty light duty work....Ben was easing us into it ;)

First, we started designing the trim boards, which will be routed & stained:

Then the wall matting started to go up!

This particular matting is called Bac Bac

Then - the FUN really began!

See all of these...........

These are boards which will become shelving all around the bar

ALL of them have to be first burned to a dark color.....

& then Each one has to be brushed with a grill brush to get the char off - the color remains, which will later we treated with a clear coat.

CRAZY DIRTY job - for sure!!!

And, while we only got a few boards scraped, we felt like coal miners by the end of the night!

MORE dirty work tomorrow night after work!