We have just wrapped up a little outdoor woodworking project that has consumed quite a bit of time the past couple of weeks but generated some nice cash flow. Rob, aka McRabbett, was my wing man for this project. The client had an existing deck on the second story, which was a typical rectangular builder's deck. They wanted to add a new deck underneath off of their walkout basement and also wanted to dress things up a bit. I came up with a design to add a little architectural interest to the decks and create some additional useable space. This was easy to accomplish on the lower deck because it was all new construction. In order to add the same detail to the upper deck, we needed to add a new center support beam, cut out the center of the the existing outer frame and extend new joists which are cantilevered off of the new beam. I also designed the railing to use an aluminum baluster and custom posts fabricated from 4x4's. Rob did a great job coming up with a mortise system where we could hide all of the screws and leave a very clean appearance. He also created massive amounts of PT shavings hogging out the mortises with a combination of forstener and router bits. There are a ton of pictures in my gallery but a few highlights are below.