This is my first chance to work with an old friend, Designer Ezio Colombrino, on a project that we hope to take to market in the USA. Ezio works in Naples, Italy and markets his designs in Europe through his website http://www.lunedesign.it He recently received a request for this piece by a person in Montreal. We tried to find someone here in the US to cut it on a CNC machine, but getting a prototype made turned out to be a fools errand. This is what it looks like on his site: I took a closer look at the parts and decided I could cut them myself, so...the fool is me. Ezio asked me to document the process and that will happen on this page, beginning with step number one: preparing the drawings. I received a set the other day and discovered the first problem. The design was supposed to be 130 cm in length and it turned out to be 130". Not a problem, really because I had planned to scale it down to 122 cm, or 48" at the customer's request. I adjusted the...