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Title: Interior progress pictures!
Post by: grantgoold on April 11, 2010, 04:21:14 PM
Made some good progress during the last few weeks. Here is one of the interior pictures. Maple panel with cherry stain and 3 coats of clear satin.
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Post by: Dreamscape on April 11, 2010, 05:06:33 PM
Looks Great!. Doesn't it feel good when you get to start making things purdy? ;)
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Post by: belfert on April 11, 2010, 05:23:25 PM
Can I hire some of you guys to finish my interior?  ;D
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Post by: jackhartjr on April 11, 2010, 05:43:28 PM
WOW!  Beautiful work Buddy!
Jack
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Post by: johns4104s on April 11, 2010, 05:48:02 PM
Looks good, great job.

John
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Post by: jmblake on April 11, 2010, 05:54:42 PM
Looks great, All that wood make's it feel warm, not like some of the laminate S&S you see, We did ours in oak and just love it. Feels good to get to that point where you can see finished product. Keep up the good work. Jason
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Post by: bryanhes on April 11, 2010, 08:30:44 PM
How thick are your walls?

Bryan
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Post by: grantgoold on April 11, 2010, 08:42:35 PM
The walls are 3.5 inches thick per side. I found an industrial rigid insulation used for large walk in freezers. The closed cell was sealed to 5/8 plywood. I then covered that with a moister barrier and then the 1/8 inch paneling. The coach is very dry and very quite. We have been able to both heat and cool the bus with very little effort.

Grant
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Post by: bryanhes on April 11, 2010, 08:50:41 PM
I was curious. From the picture at the windows they look 8" thick, lol. Looks good.

Bryan
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Post by: Jeremy on April 12, 2010, 01:17:02 AM
I'm intrigued as to why you used Maple and then stained it a Cherry colour - why not use Cherry to start with? Maple (here at least) is only fractionally cheaper than Cherry - but perhaps you couldn't buy Cherry locally?

My own bus will be done entirely in Cherry so I'm interested to know if you deliberately didn't use it for a particular reason.

As Bryan says, the walls look much more than 3.5in thick in the photo - must be an illusion

Jeremy
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Post by: Chopper Scott on April 12, 2010, 05:30:12 AM
Looks great! Can't wait to see it when it's done.
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Post by: grantgoold on April 12, 2010, 06:09:48 AM
Wanted cherry to begin with but found stain grade maple panelling for $2.00 per sheet! Decided that I could do the work and save nearly $2200.00

That is the only reason!

Same with ceiling tiles. Found those on CR for $1.75 per sheet and saved about $800.00. Sure I had to spray polyurethane on both sides. Something that ended up begin pretty simple to do.

Thanks for the cudos!

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Post by: busshawg on April 12, 2010, 09:37:35 AM
very impressive!