twistedjosh
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Long time lurker, first time poster, so Im sorry if this isnt up to par. Ive been wanting to build one of these for a while so I finally took a shot at it. Heres the build. Roughed out the wood first. Went with a 2×8 collar with 2 pieces of 3/4″ ply on the top. 1×10 pine as the facade and 1×4 pine as trim.
Built the coffin to house 5 taps, the freezer will hold 6, so I can be cold crashing one when I know another is about to kick.
Started staining and realized it was blotchy, so I tried covering it with polyshades gel stain, biggest mistake ever. After 4 coats of polyshades it was dark, I could have dealt with that but then it started to alligator
I bought citristrip and went to town. Took it the whole way down to bare wood, applied Prestain this time and all was good from there. 4 coats of min wax red oak stain and 5 coats of min wax semi-gloss poly, after that was dry came the tiling.
Laid down thin set then 1/4″ backer board then 1 inch marble mosaic tile sheets that I removed every other one from. After that had set I squeezed thinset through a gallon freezer bag between the tile and added the bottle caps.
Then came the grout.
And finally the epoxy. The smaller sections were easy as could be, but I managed to get a few micro bubbles in the largest pour, should have used a seal coat first, but I was getting impatient. I just want to pour my first draft already!
Not bad for my first attempt at wood working, my first attempt at staining and sealing wood, my first attempt at tiling and grouting, and my first attempt at pouring epoxy resin. All in all, throughout all the ups and downs, this thing still turned out amazing!
Built the coffin to house 5 taps, the freezer will hold 6, so I can be cold crashing one when I know another is about to kick.
Started staining and realized it was blotchy, so I tried covering it with polyshades gel stain, biggest mistake ever. After 4 coats of polyshades it was dark, I could have dealt with that but then it started to alligator
I bought citristrip and went to town. Took it the whole way down to bare wood, applied Prestain this time and all was good from there. 4 coats of min wax red oak stain and 5 coats of min wax semi-gloss poly, after that was dry came the tiling.
Laid down thin set then 1/4″ backer board then 1 inch marble mosaic tile sheets that I removed every other one from. After that had set I squeezed thinset through a gallon freezer bag between the tile and added the bottle caps.
Then came the grout.
And finally the epoxy. The smaller sections were easy as could be, but I managed to get a few micro bubbles in the largest pour, should have used a seal coat first, but I was getting impatient. I just want to pour my first draft already!
Not bad for my first attempt at wood working, my first attempt at staining and sealing wood, my first attempt at tiling and grouting, and my first attempt at pouring epoxy resin. All in all, throughout all the ups and downs, this thing still turned out amazing!
