TanyaQ2000
10-02-2010, 06:19 PM
as some of you know, Jim and I stumbled onto some oak wainscoting at an abondoned beer store close to home (we were looking for rocks to use to surround the pond). These pieces are approximately 40" long and 4" wide with 45 degree angle cut ends. There are in excess of 600 pieces (yes, Jim has counted them).
With the help of Sigmar's planer, Jim has removed the top coating of stain and chopped both ends square and used only these pieces to build 2 stands.
The first stand built (not shown but identical to this but smaller) is holding a 36" 58-gal tank that will utilize a FW sump.
This stand, however, is custom built to fit my 60" 125 gallon tank that currently rests on a 72" stand purchased from DNA.
The first pic is the completed stand with 2 doors....all that is left is 2 coats of poly to protect the finish.
The 2nd pic is the back rail....I asked Jim to make the stand deeper (approx 1.5") than the tank because I want to run all of my filter tubing (2 fluval canisters) and all electrical plugs (2 power heads for the UG filter and a heater and lights) thru the stand so that the stand can be pushed flush against the wall. In other words, the stand is self contained with only electrical plugs extending from under the tank to the wall jacks. This was not done on the 36" so that stand will most likely be rebuilt so that all of the plumbing is contained within the stand.
Tell me what you think as I believe Jim does AWESOME work...we still use the chest of drawers that he made from yellow pine when I was pregnant with our son. Daniel would have turned 24 this past July and this dresser, which has a few BBs lodged in it (our son was all boy), looks almost as good today as it did the day we moved it from the garage into Daniel's room.
http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/tanyaq2000/10-02-10_17081.jpg
http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/tanyaq2000/10-02-10_17091.jpg
(http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/tanyaq2000/10-02-10_17081.jpg)
With the help of Sigmar's planer, Jim has removed the top coating of stain and chopped both ends square and used only these pieces to build 2 stands.
The first stand built (not shown but identical to this but smaller) is holding a 36" 58-gal tank that will utilize a FW sump.
This stand, however, is custom built to fit my 60" 125 gallon tank that currently rests on a 72" stand purchased from DNA.
The first pic is the completed stand with 2 doors....all that is left is 2 coats of poly to protect the finish.
The 2nd pic is the back rail....I asked Jim to make the stand deeper (approx 1.5") than the tank because I want to run all of my filter tubing (2 fluval canisters) and all electrical plugs (2 power heads for the UG filter and a heater and lights) thru the stand so that the stand can be pushed flush against the wall. In other words, the stand is self contained with only electrical plugs extending from under the tank to the wall jacks. This was not done on the 36" so that stand will most likely be rebuilt so that all of the plumbing is contained within the stand.
Tell me what you think as I believe Jim does AWESOME work...we still use the chest of drawers that he made from yellow pine when I was pregnant with our son. Daniel would have turned 24 this past July and this dresser, which has a few BBs lodged in it (our son was all boy), looks almost as good today as it did the day we moved it from the garage into Daniel's room.
http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/tanyaq2000/10-02-10_17081.jpg
http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/tanyaq2000/10-02-10_17091.jpg
(http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/tanyaq2000/10-02-10_17081.jpg)