Mom 'n Pop Bar Top

John Gerken, Tom Story, Jason Moe
Only Tom actually worked on it. The others are just waiting for beer.

For years, Erin Moe has been bugging, first Stan, then her parents, about building a homemade wooden bar top for the man cave in her new Shakopee home. It needed to be like the one in our basement, she insisted. No granite, no formica, no manufactured top for her.

Like a three decker sandwich buttered with glue..
Edge to be smoothed, sanded, veneered.
Then stain, urethane.

This week her parents, our neighbors, obliged. They've been working at it all week in the garage.
Tom and Sandy first ripped a four by eight sheet of cabinet grade birch veneer MDF into planks, rearranged them, then clamped and glued them to an inch and a half thick particle board base. They glued a veneer around the sanded and shaped edge, sanded everything smooth and now they are applying coats of urethane.
It won't be long now. They'll load the project on a pickup then position it on the waiting cabinet base in the man cave.
Erin's husband, Jason, is a big Packer fan and had suggested that the planks alternate between green and gold. That's not going to happen.
It's a beautiful top.
Nice work, Tom and Sandy!

The kids' bar.