Show Off Your Custom Wood Canopies and Stands

[glb]

Here is the cabinet that I built. The beam, doors and counter are made from reclaimed barn wood. Feel free to PM me with questions. Thanks for looking.

Here is a FTS Including the beam which came out of a 150 year old barn in Penn.​

Another FTS​

Before water went in - You can see how the counter turned out. The counters use to be barn floors, in the same barn the beam came from. I left the boards with heavy distressing.​

Here is a close up of the doors. The doors were made from barn fencing that came from Kentucky. All 4 doors can be removed to make maintenance easier.


Here is a shot with the front doors removed. I used 2x8 headers across the top to avoid a center beam. Makes access to the sump very easy.​

Here is a shot with all the doors removed and the trap door that conceals my cords​

Beautiful! How did you make the doors removable? I want to do this for the stand I'm building right now.

 

[urbaneks]

Beautiful! How did you make the doors removable? I want to do this for the stand I'm building right now.

Glb- the pic below is from the build process. You can see that I made a metal frame out of 3/4" angle iron, then there is a 1/2 sheet of ply inset in the frame, last the old barn wood was attached to the ply. I have 2 12" sections of the angle iron attached to the bottom of the cabinet for each door. The doors rest on that angle iron and then attach to the top via super magnets. The magnets are available at Home Depot. Feel free to send me a pm if you have other questions.

 

[Lgsasquatch]

this is my stand and canopy I'm working on. I'll look for some if my other stand I've built.

 

[Lgsasquatch]

 

[glb]

Thanks. My stand frame is already built with 2x4's. Could I use a router to make small indentations in the frame to hold the magnets? Then I could some sort of metal on the doors. Or vice versa. Would that work for a wood only frame?

Glb- the pic below is from the build process. You can see that I made a metal frame out of 3/4" angle iron, then there is a 1/2 sheet of ply inset in the frame, last the old barn wood was attached to the ply. I have 2 12" sections of the angle iron attached to the bottom of the cabinet for each door. The doors rest on that angle iron and then attach to the top via super magnets. The magnets are available at Home Depot. Feel free to send me a pm if you have other questions.

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[glb]

Glb- the pic below is from the build process. You can see that I made a metal frame out of 3/4" angle iron, then there is a 1/2 sheet of ply inset in the frame, last the old barn wood was attached to the ply. I have 2 12" sections of the angle iron attached to the bottom of the cabinet for each door. The doors rest on that angle iron and then attach to the top via super magnets. The magnets are available at Home Depot. Feel free to send me a pm if you have other questions.

What is angle iron?

 

[Lgsasquatch]

Here is one i made around a metal frame stand.

the two doors open from the sides leaving the center completely open. The stand good a 5 foot 100g tank and i was able to slide a 55g under it from the front.

 

[glb]

Here is one i made around a metal frame stand.

the two doors open from the sides leaving the center completely open. The stand good a 5 foot 100g tank and i was able to slide a 55g under it from the front.

Nice! Do you have something in the middle (like clips or a magnet) to keep the doors level when they're shut?

 

[Lgsasquatch]

Nice! Do you have something in the middle (like clips or a magnet) to keep the doors level?

I had the magnets used for cabinet doors.

 

[Wayneb332]

This is the stand that I built for my 180. I will someday build a matching hood.

 

[kevinn9369]

Here is a custom made canopy to that I have been working on all day. I'm gonna try and finish some of it up tonight. Little more work that needs to be done. Will post pics once finished. This canopy top will be suspended over the fish tank.

 

[Catchemall]

Almost embarrassed to post after seeing some of your alls stands. But hey this was my first wood working project ever so I'm still proud of it haha.

 

[Lynn52]

This is the stand for my 125

 

[saltykid96]

Should have water in the tanks tomorrow! 125 reef on the left and 150 aggressive on the right

 

[reef_junkie]

I'm suddenly not feeling so great about my stand.



Mock-up deciding on door style




Fts filled and running

 

[saltykid96]

Looks very good to me

 

[s2nhle]

Nice.

 

[pbauec]

I skinned mine with hardwood flooring to match my basement. Will be trimming it in the spring.

 

[tdyrkacz]

build process can be seen in my build thread.. address in the sig

 

[s2nhle]

Wow, Nice. I love it.