02-07-2021, 09:52 PM
Some progress over this weekend, starting with staining.
I used some Micro-Mark Weather-it-easy brown stain. I just dumped it into a storage container and let the parts soak for about 30 minutes before fishing them out to dry. Three batches were needed for all the parts.
I liked how they came out in the end. The parts are sorted out using a couple TV dinner plates.
The first steps involve a lot of cutting, notching and drilling of the truss's top and bottom chord pieces. I made a slight problem for myself when I stained all the wood, removing the color-coding that was put on the ends to determine sizes. Because of that, the calipers came out.
I pinned the templates to a piece of insulation foam with a sheet of wax paper on top. I then started to assemble the trusses by pinning and gluing the parts together onto the template.
After a couple hours work I had one complete truss, and one half built.
I used some Micro-Mark Weather-it-easy brown stain. I just dumped it into a storage container and let the parts soak for about 30 minutes before fishing them out to dry. Three batches were needed for all the parts.
I liked how they came out in the end. The parts are sorted out using a couple TV dinner plates.
The first steps involve a lot of cutting, notching and drilling of the truss's top and bottom chord pieces. I made a slight problem for myself when I stained all the wood, removing the color-coding that was put on the ends to determine sizes. Because of that, the calipers came out.
I pinned the templates to a piece of insulation foam with a sheet of wax paper on top. I then started to assemble the trusses by pinning and gluing the parts together onto the template.
After a couple hours work I had one complete truss, and one half built.