2.0 Hours -
The work in this post actually occurred in short spurts over a couple of days, but I’m lumping it together.
With the bases cut and the columns glued and screwed, I was ready to put them together. However, I wasn’t happy with the tops of three of the columns being uneven. Granted, the tops being uneven doesn’t even matter, but for appearance sake, I wanted to even them out. After all, when I’m done with the stands, I plan to give them to another builder and I don’t want them to think my work was sloppy!
To even out the stands, I just ran them through my band saw. Due to their length, I couldn’t balance them on the band saw table by myself, so I convinced my girlfriend, Amber, to hold one end of the column up while I cut the other.
Once the columns were even, I started attaching them to the bases. This was relatively simple, and I had all of the bases attached within 45 minutes.
Attaching the bases to the columns was a bit of a stretch. Please ignore my gut hanging out!
The basic stands are done. Now they just need to be reinforced.
Finally, I started working on the reinforcements on the base of one stand. After about an hour, I had the first stand completed. One thing is for certain…these stands will be sturdy. Based on the first stand, they should have no problem supporting the wings. Building the rest of the stands should go more quickly now that I’ve got it figured out (more or less).
This is the first complete stand...at least the wood portions are done.
For comparison, a finished stand next to an unfinished one.
