MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - Boar Tusk - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11040	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Fri, Sep 4, 2009 8:23 AM Thank you Jason, we're still awaiting post-Oasis postings from you! Bowana, if anyone would recognize evil-genius it would be YOU! :) Thanks I've had a small pond on my Lanai for several years that I made from a couple of concrete pipes. I had originally covered it with cedar boards but I have been inspired by the TC gardens to step it up a notch. So I took off the boards and faced it with lava stone. I plan to cover the top edge with some very dark slate, but my only local landscape rock supplier is out right now :( CAUTION - UNORTHODOX TECHNIQUE!!!!! I used black dye in my mortar but neither the rocks nor the mortar turned out as dark as I wanted so I SPRAY PAINTED them! I figure the paint will stick well to the rough porous stone. I'm sure it will fade in a year or two but I can fix that in ten minutes with a 98 cent can of flat black spray. Before After

Thank you Jason, we're still awaiting post-Oasis postings from you!
Bowana, if anyone would recognize evil-genius it would be YOU! :) Thanks

I've had a small pond on my Lanai for several years that I made from a couple of concrete pipes. I had originally covered it with cedar boards but I have been inspired by the TC gardens to step it up a notch. So I took off the boards and faced it with lava stone. I plan to cover the top edge with some very dark slate, but my only local landscape rock supplier is out right now :(

CAUTION - UNORTHODOX TECHNIQUE!!!!! I used black dye in my mortar but neither the rocks nor the mortar turned out as dark as I wanted so I SPRAY PAINTED them! I figure the paint will stick well to the rough porous stone. I'm sure it will fade in a year or two but I can fix that in ten minutes with a 98 cent can of flat black spray.

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After

Post #481381 by MadDogMike on Fri, Sep 4, 2009 8:23 AM