Category Archives: Woodworking

Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 4

Not much action this week on the Stratton Bed, because work has been keeping me fairly busy.  I did learn one thing about painting though.  Red is a tough color to paint!  I just completed the 3rd coat of red inside the boxes and may need a 4th coat for perfection. In addition to painting […]

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Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 3

Well after hitting the boxes and tops with 60-grit, 100-grit, and 150-grit sand paper it’s is safe to say that my garage was covered in a good layer of pine dust!  After brushing the dust off of the boxes and hitting them with a shop vac it was time to move the boxes into the […]

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Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 2

With the three plywood boxes completed last weekend it was time to focus on trimming them out. Since the boxes are to be painted, I am staying cheap and trimming the boxes out with pine.  Another trip to Lowes and I picked up two 1×6’s and three 1×2’s. The 1×6’s I will rip down to […]

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