One of the first projects my
18-year-old son worked on with me was a conference table, for a
commercial real estate sales office in downtown Portland. This was
done when cutting and finishing was done with handheld skill saws and
grinders. Shaping and detailing an unforgiving and reluctant stone
like granite was a real challenge back then. It was a slow and
difficult process to turn two raw slabs of granite into a matched
three-dimensional stone table.
We were both quite proud of our hard
work when we delivered it to the tenth floor of the commercial real
state office and installed it on a custom wooden base ready for us.
It all came together very well we thought.
Before we left the office, three
architects walked in, one stating, “What a handsome piece of
stone,” congratulating the other on his stone selection.
Then a group of young commercial
salesmen came in, not noticing us, “HOW MANY APES DID IT TAKE TO
CARRY THAT UP HERE?” and laughed.
This was my son's introduction to
commercial stone fabrication. It's no wonder we all prefer to work
for private home owners who respect and appreciate good
craftsmanship.
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