Wife's office stand built!

[Jacwil]

So we bought Dan's old 20g Tall to setup in Jen's office. Built the stand yesterday. The last stand I built was WAY overbuilt, (2x4 and 6 frame skinned with 3/4" cabinet grade ply)...for a 26g nano :hmm1:

This stand is one sheet of 3/4" Oak ply and some 1x2 poplar for trim. Now I'm definitely not a trim carpenter or furniture maker, my experience with woodworking consists of 10yrs as a rough framer...new houses.

This stand ways about half as the other one I built. Just needs sanding and primer/paint/stain.

 

[Tank14]

Looks awesome! I wish I was able to build stuff like that. Too afraid I would cut my fingers off or nail my hand to a board

 

[JOESWOODWORKS]

Looks great, It looks like you have the right idea. If you dont try you will never know!

 

[jfl14609]

Looks good man

 

[tent boy]

Thats an amazing stand.

 

[Jacwil]

Thats an amazing stand.

Well let's not get carried away Paul but thx lol. I got back from the home store around 1130 and was at this point by 5 or so and that's with a cpl interruptions. It's a very simple design that was linked to me from the DIY forum.

The one annoying thing about it is that I can only get the 10g sump in and out from the top, so let's hope it doesn't leak right away!

 

[boosted chemist]

Looks good, is there a door on the front or is it sealed?

 

[solRNY]

stand is looking very good, can't wait to see the full setup

 

[Jacwil]

Looks good, is there a door on the front or is it sealed?

I just tacked the door on with a brad nailer to show the wife. It will be a hinged door.

I'm going to caulk all the joints inside the sump area, and I bought Kilz Interior/Exterior Water-based Primer. Hopefully this will do a good job.

I want to make a nicely organized "electrical station" in the sump area but I need to see how much room I have left over....I may just end up building two smaller, skinnier cabinets and adding one to each side. If I do this I can hide the 2 or 3" gap that will be visible because of the overflow and return plumbing behind the tank..

 

[boosted chemist]

setting up a clean electrical station in a nano can be challenging, I think after a good month of messing with my sump i got it where i like it.

Just watch out if kilz has some kind of antifungal/mold additive, not that it touches water, but i would look into that.

 

[Jacwil]

uh oh

uh oh

setting up a clean electrical station in a nano can be challenging, I think after a good month of messing with my sump i got it where i like it.

Just watch out if kilz has some kind of antifungal/mold additive, not that it touches water, but i would look into that.

yea it has the antimicrobial stuff for mildew...will research..thx for heads up.

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Looks great! What will the finish be on the outside?

 

[Jacwil]

Looks great! What will the finish be on the outside?

Well her new office furniture is stained black. She said I could just paint it black but ugh...I dunno. The last time I stained anything was a clock I made in woodworking class in 7th grade :eek2:

I have some ugly plywood edges that I could cap off with some rips of 1x, or there is the iron-on type edging, if I do decide on staining. The trim was nailed on with a brad nailer but I lost the rubber tip that prevents the dings the head of the nailer makes, so I have all those to repair.

Bottom line: if I paint it I could have it cycling by Thursday, but if I stain it, it wont be until later next week before I could set it all up. I guess the lazy way out would be to just paint it all, but why buy oak ply if going that route?

 

[Srixon]

Bottom line: if I paint it I could have it cycling by Thursday, but if I stain it, it wont be until later next week before I could set it all up. I guess the lazy way out would be to just paint it all, but why buy oak ply if going that route?

My thoughts exactly

 

[Jacwil]

Which part of that Don? The having it cycling this week or the buying oak and painting?

 

[Srixon]

buying oak and painting

 

[Jacwil]

Yea I hear ya man...I wasn't sure how I was gonna finish it when I was buying materials. Time to start researching how to get this stain grade and what stains and poly to go with

This would be an excellent time for Joe to chime in lol.

 

[boosted chemist]

Stain it and wait the extra week, IMHO i would stain the oak light and make the frame a little darker or even a redish. When i built a mohagany book case (small) i used bartley's gel varnish and that stuff reallly seals nicely and brings out the woods natural beauty.

 

[Jacwil]

Thx BC, will keep that in mind...I actually stopped by my wife's office today and looked at her furniture...it is actually painted black but you can see the texture of the grain but not the grain itself...if that makes sense.