Looking good mate. What sort of wood is that? It'd look nice if you tried to use the same wood to cover the lid and had side bits on it too that matched up with the collar.
Dad and I can't work out what sort of timber it is -
Dad salvaged it from an oil storage room at an old garage he pulled down in town, It used to be the floor boards - probably been there 50+ years.
It is really dense - and bloody heavy!
Lots of dusty greasy crap on the outside -
Was about 50mm thick when we constructed it, made it
fairly square, using the internal dimentions I wanted, to match up with the lip of the freezer - then planed the whole thing down to about 40mm, taking it back to the decent timber. I didn't mind if it had overhang externally, I might do something around the outside - or just finishe it off with some quad.
It has a slight warp, but Ive used a foam strip between the freezer and collar to take this up.
It has no finish yet - needs a fine sand, and I might use a wax to bring out the colour.
Yeah was thinking about doing a lid - but dont think i'll use the same timber for that...
Will post decent pics after the weekend - hopefully going to finish it off when I get the rest of my gear!
Even decided to hold off bottling my IPA so I can keg it this weekend :beer:
nah she loves it, just means more chance of having her beer on tap.
