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   FastEddie1 | Nov 10, 2004 04:20pm | #1

   4x4 structural core.  MDO cut into trapezoids, with beveled edges.  2x4 blocking at the base to spread the MDO.

   Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

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   dIrishInMe | Nov 11, 2004 05:20am | #5

   Thanks Ed.  What thickness MDO?  Also, I'm not sure I totally understand the need for the 2x4 blocking - is it attached to the 4x4?  I mean I want the sleve to float around the 4x4 - right...

   Matt

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   gdavis62 | Nov 11, 2004 05:41am | #6

   I've done these.  The 2x4 is a "booster ring" for the bottom, a four-sided spacer, because the column box has so much taper.  Your MDO ply will be 3/4" material.

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   FastEddie1 | Nov 11, 2004 06:06am | #8

   Here's a rough idea ...Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

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   dIrishInMe | Nov 11, 2004 06:09am | #9

   Thanks all.  I've got it now...

   Matt

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   jagwah | Nov 10, 2004 05:03pm | #2

   Like Ed said but I like to run the edge on my router table using my lock-mitre bit, a bit of overkill maybe. I used MED X board on these in the photo and a concrete board for the fields.

   I've done many like yours the old way, just a pine panel. Just prime the interior and edges.

    

   
   

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   Edited 11/10/2004 9:04 am ET by JAGWAH

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   dIrishInMe | Nov 11, 2004 05:11am | #3

   I remember you posting those pics before.  They look good.

   What is MED X board? 

   ThanksMatt

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   jagwah | Nov 11, 2004 05:18am | #4

   It's an exterior grade of MDF. The 5"  base on the bottom of those columns,there are three, are swelling a little. I fear I might have mixed some MDF in with the MED X by mistake.

    

   Edited 11/10/2004 9:20 pm ET by JAGWAH

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   Piffin | Nov 11, 2004 05:53am | #7

   You'll have better luck buying it if you ask for MEDEX instead of MED X 

    

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   jagwah | Nov 11, 2004 07:45am | #10

   Ya but when I ask for it my way I get a cute nurse.