Post #559116 by Choptop on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 4:46 PM

here is the "skeleton" of Ubangee. I just cut non matching wavey patterns on the outside edge of the plywood legs, screwed them to a ring on top and a larger ring on bottom. I then put a couple LIBERAL coats of Thompsons Water Seal on it to try and offer a little but of rot resistance to the wood.

I then covered the sides with chicken wire and burlap (sorry, dont have pics of this stage). I just construction staple gunned them to the wood. Shaping the chicken wire as I went to give it a little bit of a "volcanoey" look. The burlap was then covered with a matting, and I cant quite remember the name of the product right now... will look it up and post it.. but its a cement absorbent batting looking stuff. Over this a first coat of epoxy cement was used as a base. Think of this as a "primer" coat.

after this we mixed up some "Spray Top" first a little thin to serve as a harder base coat.
Danny mixing while Lonny "supervises"

all of us applying the "base" coat

then we mixed up a thicker batch to act as a texture coat. We troweled this on in "artistic" fashion to give some texture... again, trying to make it look "volcanoey"

and the results

let all that dry overnight and then start staining. We used a variety of acid stains and straight up concrete stains. Some give BRIGHT colors, others stain everything under it (unlike other stains that are more like paint and just cover the underlying colors). We just went to town until it looked good.
here is the 1st stain we used...

and after numerous applications of stains and acid stains.

[ Edited by: Choptop 2011-06-12 10:37 ]

[ Edited by: Choptop 2012-06-06 11:35 ]