New Furniture Grade Rack
Hello All,
My names Lee. I have been an extreme lurker around here for the last couple of years. There is so much info all my questions pretty much have been answered just running through the forums. I have gotten into ball pythons around three years ago with my first ball Python Chaos. I thought I liked snakes then but my excitement for them has blown up recently. My "collection" has increased from him to Ghost (my ghost pastel) at the end of last year. This year my collection has jumped up 6 more beautiful snakes with 5 more on the way!! Frankly plastic totes all over the house is no longer an option(fiance hates it as it is)...time to move up to a rack system!
I am building a rack that will fit into the dining room (lol which is only used for holidays) that will fit in with the rest of the room. It is to look like a book shelf and be made out of cabinet grade hardwood plywood. The design is to have 7 levels to house snakes and a small level on the bottom for storage. The outside dimensions are 4.5'H X 3'W X 19"D. This will hold 3 15qt sterilte clearview tubs on each level.
So far we (my father and I) have gotten the wood. It took 3- 3/4" Sheets of 4X8 Maple hardwood Plywood to get all of the panels we need we had most of the cuts made at the store but had to make a few of our own.
3' X 19"- 9 (top bottom and shelves)
4.5' X 19"- 2 (side panels)
4.5' X 3ft -1 (back panel made of thin board found laying around garage)
I have also already started coating the wood with clear Varathane Satin Water-based Interior Polyurathane. I am using clear as the natural maple color looks nice to me. I will take some pictures this evening of the work so far and update as we move along.
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