Today marks the first day back in studio from Spring Break last week. The week before break we made a lot of progress on the donor wall for the Old Towne Creek project. We managed to get all three walls framed and walled with MDO within about a week of studio time. We did have [...]
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A Week in Gulf Shores, AL
Spring break - it came and it went fast for all of us. Yet it was a much needed week of rest and relaxation that will fuel Studio V for the rest of the semester as we seek to finish these final five weeks with excellence. After all, the Spring 2025 crew has the unique [...]
A Friend from Canada Visits the CAC.C!
Today we had a guest visit the CAC.C! Liam's high school friend, Devin, is visiting from Ottawa, Canada, for the week and became our guest for the afternoon. As a tax for our hospitality, we had him assist with staining a few of our column pieces for the Donor Wall down in the shop. In [...]
Site Visit!
We’ve officially started transporting materials to our site! With both beams cut, assembled, stained, and finished, it took the whole studio to get them loaded onto the truck and hauled them out for placement. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gained valuable experience in the shop, and now we’re ready to dive into the next [...]
Shop Days!
We are well into the process of shop construction for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall! This has been a great experience, learning our way around the shop in the cigar factory and the making and usage of shop drawings. I have enjoyed seeing how things worked and didn't work in the shop drawings that [...]
Continued Assembly of the Old Towne Creek Wall
Today, our studio crew continued to work on assembling the wall addition at Old Towne Creek. We made sure to split ourselves up by task to ensure the work was done in the most efficient manner possible. We started the day by unloading wood planks from Professor Pastre’s pick-up truck and bringing them into the [...]
What is the best Shop Music?
With our Plymouth Park Design Drawings awaiting review from structural, Studio V has been working hard down in the shop on the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall this weekend. We have been sanding, routing, and staining like crazy, but are making great progress. Today we about finished the large front beam, we finished staining all [...]
What’s Your Coffee Spot?
There's two things you should know about me. I love Jesus, and I love coffee. I'll always be down to go grab a cup of coffee, especially if it means we get to check out a new shop! I was born and raised in Charleston, so over the years I've had a chance to try [...]
Trivia Night
After being hard at work in the studio and in the shop, some of Studio V headed downstairs to Bar Mash to participate in the weekly Thursday night trivia. This week brought us our highest scores, but after losing our chance to win it all, we went home without the prize once again but with [...]
Awaiting the Structural Greenlight & Beginning Fabrication
As of Tuesday we have sent a CD set to our structural engineer to review and redline. While we await the return of the redlines we are going to determine finalized floorplan iterations for Plymouth Park and begin the fabrication process for the Old Towne Creek project. Once we get the greenlight from a structural [...]