Building my own stand

[TTTony]

After making a few stands for other people , I'm going to be finishing mine today. It's walnut wood with 2 front and 2 side doors, I'm going to just clear coat the wood.

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!

 

[Anita_B]

Nice wood choice!!!!I'm getting ready to build a stand and getting ideas right now.

 

[p8ntballjunky06]

looks good, i like the wood

 

[jlanger]

I like the walnut!

Even with a clear coat, I would recommend "staining" the wood with a natural stain or wood conditioner prior to sealing and finishing the stand. The reason for this is that the stain/conditioner will fill the pores of the wood prior to being sealed. This will allow your finish to create a flatter seal coat on the wood providing a better initial seal of the walnut. The following finishing coats will bond with the initial seal coat and create a strong finish that will last longer.
We have finished all of our natural finish jobs this way for years, and the protective finish lasts much longer when adding this simple step. (That's a lot of "finishes".)

 

[TTTony]

Thank you for the info, I planned on tongue oil followed up by some semi gloss pre cat lacquer

 

[TTTony]

Just need clear coat

 

[barista88]

That stand is beautiful

 

[Doc Holiday]

The stand is excellent! Beautiful wood too. What are your plans for the canopy then?

 

[goliwala]

This is professional stuff. I did once and it came out okay but this is great.

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Wow! Fine craftsmanship.

 

[TTTony]

I'm going to try to teck the tank and some plumbing first, and then I will see if I'm going to do a standard canopy 10"-12" or a floating one

 

[glb]

Nice!

 

[FrankAbagnale]

I am so freaking jealous! I love walnut and really wanted to use it on my newest stand. I just didn't have great access to any at the time and ended up using red oak.

Also, your stand turned out great!

 

[oodan]

Nice job I'm getting ideas now I to need a new stand mine is a press wood junk from petco and it won't hold a sump I have been running hob for to long well 2 years now can't do it any more lol well I just hope mine is only half as nice as that

 

[TTTony]

I also like working with Cherry, this is another one I made

 

[oodan]

Yea I'm going to go with a almost black finish and I have in my head a 2 door bottom to hold sump with a drawer Above it to place my chemicals dry food ect and a canopy it's going to be for a smaller 50gal tall tank

 

[oodan]

I will give you the doors are spot on nice job

 

[revhtree]

Beautiful!

 

[splnissan]

Looks great