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Made this 3-legged hexagonal sort-of-Japanese-karabitsu to hold the tank for our little propane grill.
I'm very happy I got the face grain of the plywood to flow around the corners. A hexagonal box actually uses less wood than a square box. A handy calculator I found on the web was able to suggest a good width for the panels. I was able to get the walls of this piece from a single quarter-sheet of 3/8" plywood from the orange store. The rest was all surplus from other projects.
It's all finished inside and out with spar urethane, so it should be OK spending the winter outside after the grill goes into storage.
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A little more info and one more picture in the blog post on my personal blog -
http://www.ee0r.com/blog-new/hexagonal-propane-box/
I'm very happy I got the face grain of the plywood to flow around the corners. A hexagonal box actually uses less wood than a square box. A handy calculator I found on the web was able to suggest a good width for the panels. I was able to get the walls of this piece from a single quarter-sheet of 3/8" plywood from the orange store. The rest was all surplus from other projects.
It's all finished inside and out with spar urethane, so it should be OK spending the winter outside after the grill goes into storage.
A little more info and one more picture in the blog post on my personal blog -
http://www.ee0r.com/blog-new/hexagonal-propane-box/
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