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Custom Stand pics
I'm not so much a DIY guy, but I am looking to have a stand built. I would love to see some photo's of your custom built stands for inspiration toward my own.
BTW, if someone has a link to an similar but older thread please post. Thanks, |
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Here's the canopy and stand I've built, the pics are only partway through the finishing steps, the current finished product looks a heck of a lot better than this but it'll give you a design idea or two.
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Excellent, thanks for the pics! I really like your stand a lot, reminds me a bit of mission furniture.
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Nice job. I really like the canopy. How did you bend the top piece to fit. Any more construction pics?
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Bent section
Here's a shot during construction but after steaming of the end profile of the bent wood. The technique is called kerfing, it involves cutting through the majority of the wood with a table saw (in this case I left 3/16 on a 5/8 board), and then steaming the whole piece.
In order to do this I built a large steambox and used a propane torch to heat the water and route it into the box, after about two hours the wood was pretty much the shape I was after. Thereafter I built a an airplane wing style form to profile the bent piece to that aided in keeping things square. The photo shows the bent piece on that form. If I get a bit of time I'll dig up some more photos of the process. Steaming of wood should be done on pre-kiln dried wood, which isn't that easy to find. I did this on kiln dried wood that I soaked overnight, if I were to do it again, I'd be patient and find some kiln dried wood. That said, it worked. |
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Here is the stand and canopy I built for my 120.
Here is a link to the construction thread with pictures of the process. http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=787189 Here is a link to a thread I started when I wanted ideas. Lots of cool stands here. http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=625053 Good Luck! |
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Also nice job kuhli? Very unique idea. I like it!
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Click on my red house for my stand. Almost done with the canopy.
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If my phaser discharges off by as little as .06 terra watts, it would cause a cascading exothermal inversion. |
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here is mine...
and an inside shot... was going for a real simple look... plywood box! lol |
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Excellent pics guys. Coseal, your simple stand reminds me of the ADA stands. Very cool.
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thanks............ just looked at that ada stand it looks nice, i like the platform above the doors. but i have some ugly trim im trying to hide so the platform wouldnt work for me..this guy made a killer diy stand kinda inspired my to give it a try!
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...5&pagenumber=1 i also ran across a good diy page a few months ago that helped me out as well.. http://reefsmagazine.com/DIY_stand.html |
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I saw pics of that stand, it was a very nice and clean build. It matches the Elos rimless tank very nicely.
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mine is a copy(sort of)of marinos stand.
if you click on my little red house you can see the stand being built in the first few pages.
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click the little red house for my 150g build thread. |
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