Again I'm on the hunt for a stand builder.
I talked to greg finally, but for some reason he declined to work on my stand. He told me it was too small of a project, even after working with me on the plans and giving me a rough estimate. He asked me for a sketch, and I made a CAD diagram into a jpeg for him. But he never answered my last PM which was 2 weeks ago about why he rejected my project all of a sudden.
Is a $500+- stand too small of a project? I was hoping to go with him, because I've seen pictures and gotten a lot of recommendations to go to him. I did get a quote for $275 from someone in hayward, but definately I want a quality stand. Reason I started shopping around is because I couldn't get a hold of him.
Is it usual for him to drop a project all of a sudden? Many people spoke highly of him, but he sort of turned a cold shoulder to me when he replied to me after I tried looking for him? I'm not accusing him of anything, just confused. He seemed like a nice guy, maybe just super busy now.
I'm not one to beg someone to do anything, so I'll keep looking around. I talked to frank at byritepet.com, but not sure about the quality of his stands. If someone lives in the hayward area and can stop by sometime this week to assess his work for me, please let me know! If you can snap a couple shots too, that'd be great. I'll definately frag you something neat when I get my corals grown out =) I can't make it down to hayward during their business hours, since I work all week and they're closed Sundays (saturdays I'm busy all day too). Thanks!!!
I'm also thinking of just going to local furniture stores near my house that build custom furniture, and see what they can do for me here too.
Last resort is to go get a router table, some work bench, some saws, a flood light, and a huge golf umbrella, and make the stand after work every night =P I don't have room inside the house, so it'll all have to be outdoors after work. Sucks because I usually can't get home until 11pm.
Last piece of the puzzle =) Any suggestions would be awesome!
Thanks =)