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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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A Trellis for Peas & Beans

Trellis–Version 2.0

Version 1.0 was a quick throw together project which has not held up as well as I would have liked it to over the last couple weeks.  The top stretcher has sagged creating a U-shaped smiley face which has loosened the twine that was tightly wrapped around the stretchers to start with.  Additionally, the frame […]

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