Hoang N Nguyen
06-22-2015, 6:03 PM
Hi all, just wanted to share my most recent project. It's a table for my big green egg smoker I've been working on for the last month and a half (2 or 3 hours a night). It's constructed of all cedar boards minus the back panel, I decided to built that out of hardyboard instead to save on time and the fact that it's facing the back of my deck where no one will ever see it. It's finished with an exterior rated with UV protection water base clear coat, 3 coats for the cabinets and 5 coats for the table top. The table top is laminated together from (4) 2x8 cedar boards and is cut right down the middle of the cut out for the egg. That makes the table top 2 pieces and is aligned with dowels and pulled together with some zipbolt counter top connectors. The cabinet break down into 3 pieces, the 2 side cabinets and the drawer where the egg sits on. That makes this project a total of 5 removable pieces in the event I need to break it down and move. Overall its 10 feet long and 26" front to back.
This is my very first project where I used something other then paint as a finishing so I have lots to learn. I've since read about how a lot of people don't trust water base clear coat for outdoor use so I'm hoping the people at Sherwin Williams knew what they were talking about and that the product is true to it's claims. Worst case I'll just strip the top coat down to bare wood and refinish it if it starts to peel. I'm hoping to get a few years out of it before that happens.
Sorry about the extra large pictures, I'm having a hard time uploading pictures to the forum again so I ended up using photobucket.
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This is my very first project where I used something other then paint as a finishing so I have lots to learn. I've since read about how a lot of people don't trust water base clear coat for outdoor use so I'm hoping the people at Sherwin Williams knew what they were talking about and that the product is true to it's claims. Worst case I'll just strip the top coat down to bare wood and refinish it if it starts to peel. I'm hoping to get a few years out of it before that happens.
Sorry about the extra large pictures, I'm having a hard time uploading pictures to the forum again so I ended up using photobucket.
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff468/hnnguyen85/20150621_215108.jpg (http://s1237.photobucket.com/user/hnnguyen85/media/20150621_215108.jpg.html)
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