Yeah a shift change.....I've been with Big Brown for quite a while, and this is probably the closest I'll get to daylight....I guess if you call 11:00am - 7:30pm daylight......After 12yrs in the Army I made myself a promise that I'd never live my life by an alarm clock....Well!!!!! Here we go with the alarm clock again
As far as stain I haven't really started looking. One reason I chose to go with poplar is price and also the looks....The Poplar is easier to finish, over Oak and other opened grained woods, and cheaper than Mahogany and some others....I have been a traditional light finish person, but grew tired of it till my last setup I built for a customer.....Then when I built my last setup the 240, I was still hooked on the setup I had did before, and I did mine in a dark finish and fell in love with it.....Everything in the family room is of a lighter finish, so to kind of tie things together I should be leaning that way, but I'm still drawn to a dark finish.......I'll have to post a pic of my last stand build for the color and finish.
I was thinking about for the final finish on the stand was to use a bar top epoxy finish over the traditional poly finish. Epoxy bar top finish would definitely hold up alot better and alot easier to wipe down from water drips, but I think the super high gloss would be way overkill. What do you guys think? Again still looking for some ideas and tips from everyone.....Everyone seems so tight lipped these days!!!!!!!
As far as the shocks....didn't get to make the call today and it was my off day, and tomorrow I have no time, so we'll see if I can get it done before work Wednesday. Pricing isn't to bad on the shocks. I think they are $15.00 a piece. I could always use friction/adjustable ball clasps, which are cheaper and can pick up local, but like I said I'm trying to push the envelope on the build. Alittle more than the last.
As far as the speaker issue; I like what you've come up with....I'll have to get some measurement on the Polk speakers and see if I can find some type of grilling that size. I had thought about fabbing the panel around the speaker and covering it with like speaker grill material, but didn't like the idea and trying to make it less obvious that it's there....I love the speaker there especially on Race Day......I'm pretty sure I could fab something up like your suggesting just have to sit down and really think about it.
Yes, the 45's are disappearing, and they blend in and aren't noticeable when they have even coats of epoxy on them.....When I poured the initial coats before adding the fiberglass you would over look them. I have to rough up the fiberglass before the epoxy work continues, but that isn't major, and what is next is build the epoxy up to completely cover or embed the fiberglass cloth in epoxy. I figure I'll need roughly another 3 gallons of epoxy and equal amount of hardner as well. I should have mentioned 2Quills (Corey) just for a gallon of West epoxy and quart of slow hardner it's $140.00 plus tax. A gallon doesn't go super far especially when wetting out biaxial cloth 37oz cloth.....I'm looking to have roughly 3/16" thickness, maybe a tad more. I figure once I feel I'm close I will drill my bulkheads in the bottom and back of the tank, and take thickness measurements, and if needed I can build dams/molds to plug the bulkhead holes and continue the pour job.
I'm still working on the canopy, and I'm curious and would really like the feedback from everyone.....I get alot of looks; but no suggestions....As you can see in the previous pics of the stand how the corner caps and molding is; what I'm considering is trimming the canopy out with the same corner caps as the stand. Basically where the corner caps are they would be in direct alignment on the canopy. What do you guys think?
Ok enough rambling need some feed back to a couple questions????
1. Suggestion on finish colors?
2. Suggestions as how to handle the speaker issue on the side of the canopy?
3. Suggestions on how to finish off the canopy? Should I finish the canopy with the same corner caps?
Come on guys need your feedback and insight......
