One Cubic Meter of Ocean

[lastlight]

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

[Stones]

Originally Posted by lastlight

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.

[sphelps]

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

[lastlight]

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?

[lastlight]

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

[sphelps]

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:

So I won't be bothering with edge banding for the remaining beams.

[Coleus]

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