The Hazelnut Inn sports endless detail from every angle, inside and out. Every detail helps tell the story. Becke is responsible for designing and planting on our properties, and the gardens throughout the Under Hill showcase her impressive talent of sourcing and arranging the abundant foliage. The legend of the Under Hill is that this is the estate of Mr Burrows. He was a green thumb (or paw), and grew all manner of plants, complete with a small patch of vegetables.
Ready to ship
The features and signs we create are all of unusual shape and size. While making them is relatively straightforward (for us), getting them safely to their destination is a definite challenge. Through years of experience, we have it down to a science. We build them on special custom-welded steel pallets. The pallets have pockets welded to them that accept swivel wheels to facilitate moving them around in the shop and then relocating them outside as they are finished. By design, the wheels easily fall off when we lift them with a crane to put them on the transport truck deck. The taller features are built in sections, no more than ten feet high, so the loads are legal on a drop deck trailer. Removable or permanent (depending on the piece) lift and tie-down points are designed into the feature structures from the start. And of course, the loads are carefully planned to fit together and not waste valuable space. Lastly, the pieces are arranged in our driveway to facilitate orderly and efficient loading, along with room for the semi and crane and a little extra maneuvering room for our forklift. The features for a very full semi truck load of features are ready to ship to Nebraska with a comfortable amount of time to spare. We’ll be loading on July 9th.
"wood' crest.
We have two crests in progress for the Copper Crown Suite of the Hazelnut Inn. One will be made of ‘wood’ and hung inside the suite over the exterior door. The second crest will be ‘carved from stone’ and will be mounted over the exterior fireplace. Our ShopSabre CNC router did the bulk of the carving on both pieces. Each crest is whittled from a 30” x 30” x 3.5” block of 30 lb Precision Board. I then pressed on a thin coat of sculpting epoxy to sculpt in the woodgrains. The ‘stone crest will receive the same treatment, but I’ll add a sandstone texture instead of woodgrain. One more hour will be spent finishing the sculpting on this piece, and then on to the stone version. They will paint up real nice, I’m sure.
