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I talked to cabinet maker's wife today.  He is up and about following his
surgery and ready to start cranking out cabinets. As soon as I get ALL the
cables shipped out, I will go take the prototype cabinet he made back over
to his house and critique good and bad.  I will then ask him to start
getting serious about a price.

Larry

do you have an idea of what the dimensions/configuration will be?

- chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:24 PM
> To: MOTM List
> Subject: [motm] walnut cabinet update
> 
> I talked to cabinet maker's wife today.  He is up and about following his
> surgery and ready to start cranking out cabinets. As soon as I get ALL the
> cables shipped out, I will go take the prototype cabinet he made back over
> to his house and critique good and bad.  I will then ask him to start
> getting serious about a price.

Chris, these are planned to come initially in 3 side heights:
1 row straight
2 row straight
2 row slant
The latter two being identical in height /depth profile to the NAMM
cabinets.

The width will be user selectable too.  My initial thoughts were 18U, 24U,
and 30U wide.  However, I am willing to listen to reasonable requests for
different sized.  I wanted multiples of my flat rails (6U)  12U seems rack
size almost, so I was going to nix that size.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Walcott <cwalcott@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: [motm] walnut cabinet update


do you have an idea of what the dimensions/configuration will be?

- chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:24 PM
> To: MOTM List
> Subject: [motm] walnut cabinet update
>
> I talked to cabinet maker's wife today.  He is up and about following his
> surgery and ready to start cranking out cabinets. As soon as I get ALL the
> cables shipped out, I will go take the prototype cabinet he made back over
> to his house and critique good and bad.  I will then ask him to start
> getting serious about a price.





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I did go see the cabinet maker a few days ago like I said I would he had the
first lower slant prototype cabinet finished. I was VERY pleased.  I told
him to go ahead and proceed with production of four 24U wide units to match
up with the 4 straight cabinets I have already so I can start getting some
shipping behind me.  Then, I plan to keep him on slant cabinets until I have
enough for everyone that wanted one.  After that, we will go back to making
straight cabinets.  Seems like most everyone wants their slant cabinet
first.  The price for a 2 row, 24U slant cabinet kit will be $325 plus
shipping just as we discussed before.  No, I do not know what shipping is
going to cost yet.  I have to get a couple shipped before I have firm
figures on that.

That was the good news.  Now, there is some bad news for those that want
cabinets wider than 24U.  The first bad news is the cabinet maker does not
want to make them.  He says that cutting the bottom 24U wide was about as
big as he wanted to go.  I begged and pleaded.  He said OK, BUT, he wants
$100 more each for slant cabinets wider than 24U.  I did not think to ask
about any increased price for wider than 24U straight cabinets.  But, I will
next time I see him.  Plus I see that wider than 24U is going to be more
difficult (translate more expensive) to ship. :(

So, if your original note to me was for something wider than 24U (like 27U
or 30U), then you need to examine your heart and wallet and decide whether
you want to:

1 - go with 24U for the good price
2 - flaunt your cash and go wide
3 - tell me to piss off and find another source for cabinets

I am very hopeful that right after I finish taking the cable orders, I will
be able to start ship the first 8 cabinets.  This is not going nearly as
fast as I had hoped.  But, I am now working on cabinet maker # 3.  And, I am
not going to break in another one.  So, when this one gives out, so will my
attempts to supply cabinets.

Thanks for your patience
Larry