What?
no tasting of the wood?

Well, that's going to look a whole lot better than anything you could get at Home Depot!:smile:

Maple is tricky to stain. You could coat it with a light cut of shellac for a sealer to help even out the maple first. Otherwise it could turn blotchy.
You friend Dwayne looks like he knows what he's doing though.:smile:

HAHAHAHAHHAAHA Well I Can't speak nice DIG Hmmmmmmmmm how is the heck am I going to get you back. Oh I know. I will wait til Oh never mind :wink::twised:

Ya Mitch does know alot I think that I have it sorted out withthe Maple for the outer rim for the doors and the Birch for the inner of the doors.

Well I was playing with the Rocks to see on what I can get sorted out before getting the stand home here tonight I hope waiting on a Phone call from my Buddy to get it out of his shop. so I was playing with some of the rocks and added some more Wet Stuff Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WATER.
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I added some sand from the other tank and glad to take out the 2 platform pieces of rock. they were full of Red turf so now they are in the Sump ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...

Well I spent the day staining and let me tell you people. never again I hate it i feel so Stoned on fumes :mrgreen: great if I was in BC lol.

ok shere is what I have so far the Doors have not be started yet... I put a stopper so far. I bought 3 ICE Pendants from a guy in IOWA on RC for $300 shipped and they are 6 months old so I couldn't pass it up.

Ok SO I remember Snappy did the same thing well If Snappy can do I can do it.
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I can't believe that I'm doing this again should have stuck with the 150 Omg
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DAM GLUE
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Thank god Its up going to run the tiles in a diamond Row so they will push out 33 1/4 " from the tank.
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Ok well I can't stop now I need something else to do Hmmmmmmmmmm

ok
Need to run the RO/DI Line to the Sump for my top off.:razz: thank god for drop ceilings
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nice build in Shelf for the Skimmer and the Kalk Reactor. Im going to seal it so If I get a over flow it will hold it. But come on Its a DELTEC.
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This is what it looks like stained TAAAAa DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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How about from this Angle BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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ok So I see that you are back for more ......:mrgreen:
This is where the Sump is going that to is going to be sealed off from any water after I caulk it .....
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Here is the left tower that will hod the ballasts lights and light rail and food and other goodies. fans power center.

I got smart i added a hole for the cords and the Vortech and even a feeding hole and there is one on the other side too.:biggrin:
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oh the stain is a Walnut stain looks pretty good too ..
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the rec room is a mess until i can get these sealed and then put back in and the floor tiled up.
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and this is what it looks like this was when we brought in down stairs to take a look.
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Hope you all like them so far.

Looking good Mike, love the two side cabinets to hold all the gear :biggrin:

I really like the look of that stain! Can't wait to see the doors and canopy on.

Ah geez mike I hope you tasted the stain first! I mean I wouldn't want you using sub standard stain or anything.