Watch for bits of flying ice as the bartender chips smaller pieces from their custom-made ice blocks into a cocktail shaker.

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Second, its inventory, which will offer a mix of brand-new items, items from older seasons (like Gilt does), custom-made orders and unique archival pieces.

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Builders run water over custom-built racks and harvest the frozen pieces to apply them to the growing structures.

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The company was letting visitors try out its new talking-shoe concept, with a custom-made microcontroller (along with assorted SparkFun pieces) on the tongue of a pair of Adidas.

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Over the last few decades, IT professionals honed their skills assembling pieces and parts, building competencies in the complex art of component procurement and custom integration.

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Prokopi spent the next year and a half cleaning the T. bataar fossils, gluing them together, fabricating bones out of resin to replace missing pieces (an accepted practice, even in museums), and building a custom-welded frame.

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You know, you can go to a showroom and just pull pieces and for - or you go to a store and buy pieces, but for an athlete, you know, for a suiting, we have to get things custom made.

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