sorry, I didn't know you had previously targeted him for stalking. Carry on then.

he bought coral off me too during my last rape'n'pillage fest.

What are the orange pipes? Fire suppression?

how do you make the beams? Are they reg lumber or plywood covered with a stained veneer?

+1

Was wondering this myself looking at that sweet ceiling again. My suspended ceiling is looking more ghetto every time this thread gets updated.

It's just maple plywood (3/4"), corner maple pieces hide the plywood edges. Here's a beam I haven't put up yet:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...EB64D9AAC4.jpg

Maybe the pic is too small to see but I swear the grains are continuous edge to edge on all sides? You're staining the ends that show the plys? To my eyes all sides look like nice maple?

Wait by corner maple pieces you mean 3/4 veneer strips? Still can't even see those if that's the case.

Most of the pieces up there have edge banding on them to cover the edges. Originally I just planed on doing that without the corner covers but I later decided to add the corner covers because it looked better. By corner covers I mean these:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...76g_977BIBSMaH
So I won't be bothering with edge banding for the remaining beams.

I like your ceiling beam, i should have done something like that.