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10-20-2004, 01:12 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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|  My first DIY Project
A big thanks goes out to my neighbor chuck for lending me a compound miter saw,sabre saw,table saw,jig saw,circular saw,scroll saw,brad nailer and a speed square.
This is my first ever major wood project other than building simple speaker boxes.
I did this 99.9% myself And i am Proud of it.
May add door handles and door decorations.
Let me know what you think..
will try to get a better picture of it today,this picture dont do it justice.its the lighting i think. http://www.3reef.com/cgi-bin/album.p...s/DSCF0192.JPG
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[img ]http://www.3reef.com/uploads/Birdsig.jpg[/img]&&75Gal,Jebo 180 skimmer,20Gal Sump/Refuge,cascade 1000 filter filled with cured liverock.&&2clowns,1yellow tang,1 niger trigger,1firefish,1scarlet cleaner,1 emerald crab,,3feather dusters,8green?????,3 blue legged hermit crabs,30 Yellow polyps and one Striped mushroom.30lbs Of live rock so far.
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10-20-2004, 03:58 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator | Re: My first DIY Project
Very nice, So when are you coming over to help build my next stand. I would have guessed it was done by a pro.
BTW here it is for those 
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10-20-2004, 04:21 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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| Re: My first DIY Project
wow, looks absolutely great
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90 gal, 120 lbs sand, 90 pounds live rock (adding), 5 blue-green chromis&&&&10 gal, softies, one Ocellaris Clownfish, one clowngoby, one cbs and lots of rock && | |
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10-20-2004, 04:47 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
Posts: 173
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| Re: My first DIY Project
Jason Mckenzie,You are way to far away and thanx,to you too HOODOO.Now to work on a matching canopy. | |
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10-20-2004, 06:54 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East Taunton, MA,Massachusetts
Posts: 378
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| Re: My first DIY Project
wow...very nice!!! Looks very professional! _________   | |
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10-20-2004, 07:16 AM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
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    | Re: My first DIY Project
Outstanding!
How long did that take?  | |
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10-20-2004, 07:58 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
Posts: 173
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| Re: My first DIY Project
Took 8 days.total hours i would say 55 to 60.
The single most time consuming part was notching out the 4x4's for the corner posts that took me like 4 hours from cutting the 4x4's to length then notching.2 of the cuts for each notch were simlple(side cuts).I just set the table saw to the correct depth and the side bar to the width of a 2x4.now cutting down into the top of the 4x4 was a pain.tried a jigsaw,hacksaw and a scrollsaw,was at a loss,then i spotted a sabre saw in my neighbors basement.clamped the 4x4 one by one into a craftsman work bench then sat on top of the 4x4 and made the cuts.it was a little unerving pulling that saw towards me.
in all reality you can cut a house in half with the thing would take about 2 to 3 hours but could be done | |
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10-20-2004, 08:41 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
Posts: 173
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| Re: My first DIY Project
Oh Ya,,and it only cost me about 85 dollars to build and looks as good if not better than the one i was looking at in my LFS that wanted 500 dollars for it | |
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10-20-2004, 09:07 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
Posts: 3,524
| Re: My first DIY Project
Ah yes, DIY is always cheaper than LFS prices. (If you don't have to go to the store too many times, eh?) _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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