Post #654996 by mike and marie on Tue, Oct 9, 2012 7:27 PM

With all the ceiling in place the next step was the ceiling beams. We modeled them after the darker beams of the Ft Lauderdale Wreck Bar and the first step was to construct them out of standard lumber, measured to fit across the room and holding the sides together with nails and wood glue:

Then we had to distress it and make it look like it was part of a shipwreck. The operating table had all the necessary tools:

ready to begin:

already the first signs of distress:

once we did that to all the beams we poured a little strong, cold coffee on it and rubbed it in for color:

We repeated the whole process three, four, five times. Lots of scrapes and nicks and pounding and when we took breaks we rubbed the coffee into the wood. Finally we gave it all a coat of rub-on polyurethane stain:

Then after that dried we did even more damage to the wood, then gave it a second stain. Finally the wood started to look right: