Skinning a Stand - Cabinetry

[HaZRaTTy]

Hey,

Anyone hire a company in Edmonton to Skin and do the finishing touches on skinning their fish tank? If so what company did you go with, I am trying to pre-plan my next upgrade for when the basement is finished and If its not going to cost me an arm and a leg I figure that I would pay someone to do it rather then spend the money, do it and not be satisfied with the final result.

That being said if anyone has a 72-60''Lx24Wx20H with external overflow for a herbie / canopy and a skinned stand. That's in good shape laying around I might take it off your hands.

Or I will take answers to question one! :mrgreen:

[Mike-fish]

I skinned my own stand the panels can all be removed if needed for maintanence using straps rather than magnets. All done out of 3/4" oak

[HaZRaTTy]

How does it look, I just don't want to headache of buying and skinning the stand and it looking horrible. I don't trust my finish carpentry skills. That being said last time I seem oak it was 70$ a sheet? I also don't have a table saw.

Do you have pictures or a journal?

[Mike-fish]

Ill grab a few pics tomorrow. If you look in the jan photo of the month thread I have a pic there. If you get your ply at Windsor they will sheets to the size you need that's what i did you just need to plan well. And have the hinges before you finalize your dimensions. whoops learnt that the hard way :redface:. Yeah oaks not the cheapest especially when you but the cabinetry grade at 80$ a sheet took 3 btw for mine. What do you have in mind for it?

[kien]

Hey,

Anyone hire a company in Edmonton to Skin and do the finishing touches on skinning their fish tank? If so what company did you go with, I am trying to pre-plan my next upgrade for when the basement is finished and If its not going to cost me an arm and a leg I figure that I would pay someone to do it rather then spend the money, do it and not be satisfied with the final result.

That being said if anyone has a 72-60''Lx24Wx20H with external overflow for a herbie / canopy and a skinned stand. That's in good shape laying around I might take it off your hands.

Or I will take answers to question one! :mrgreen:

Fishytime over at Red Coral is a finishing carpenter. Maybe drop him a PM or give him a visit ?

That being said, your requested dimensions are identical to my tank and to skin my stand I just grabbed some Ikea cabinet doors and magnetized them to the stand.

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af144/muzanji/IMG_3541.jpg?t=1250485811

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af144/muzanji/IMG_3538.jpg?t=1250486057

[HaZRaTTy]

Hey Kien

That would be fantastic and your stand looks great by the way. Unfortunetely I have a Steel stand otherwise that would work fantastic.

I will throw Doug a message maybe if I can't figure anything else out.

Thanks.

[Evilweevil]

Steel would work great paint the metal white drill and glue magnets into doors and stick them on side by side

[Lance]

If you want to try it yourself, Lastlight can give you some tips. He's made a kazillion of them. :mrgreen:

[HaZRaTTy]

I don't think I want to be screwing holes into the stand with 1500+ pounds on top of it at the moment.

The only way I see currently is to just use magnet with skinning ply? I just don't know how I could possibly make it look good with the corners. From side to front? And the edge of to where the tank meets the stand.

That being said now we are talking a out my current tank which is going to be upgraded when the basement is finished, I think I will make a 2x4 stand for ease to myself.

[Madmak]

I think he meant to drill and countersink the magnets in to the doors, not drill holes in the stand. This is quite a common way to attach panels to a metal stand and allow open access.

[Mike-fish]

as promised here are the pics

http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/IMG_0754_zps84dfe85b.jpg
http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/IMG_0753_zps0cf61639.jpg
http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/IMG_0755_zps6468a6bc.jpg
http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/IMG_0756_zpsf62100f6.jpg
http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/IMG_0757_zpse08de5f5.jpg
http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/IMG_0758_zps6c983915.jpg
how i attched the skirt
http://i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q569/mike-words/612B8C30-A80A-4E9E-8CB1-361C81AE980A-1894-0000051DD4857706_zps449129c7.jpg
the front panel of the canopy hinges up along with the light rack.

[HaZRaTTy]

Very nice! I don't have faith in my DIY skills. Maybe in the spring I will try my hand in the skinning.

[Evilweevil]

Yes what madmak said ... You can also custom order doors to fit the exact size you need and color you want you wouldn't have to do any cutting at all a door usually runs about 70-90 $ a door you could go to a place like Windsor plywood and bring the measurements of your stand and they could help you out also

[Seriak]

Just make sure you have a skirt at the bottom as I got lazy and didn't have a bottom skirt and the Ikea panels have swollen a bit at the bottom as it sits in water every now and again when I am doing water changes.

[Mike-fish]

We may be able to something out for a skirt

[HaZRaTTy]

We may be able to something out for a skirt

Hmm what you thinking.

[Mike-fish]

You have a pm