Post #656522 by mike and marie on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 5:54 PM

Thanks you two! We're posting some more pics tonight because we really want to get up to speed here so we can get to the other side ... and to an ever-growing list of questions and things to do!

A few small details worth mentioning. Found a big piece of interesting driftwood while beachcombing that really did look like part of the wreckage of a ship, and after giving it a thick coat of poly seal we mounted it with L-brackets to the side entrance of the Wreck Bar:

Mike had the idea to use part of an old stepladder to make it look like a ship ladder coming down from the ceiling ... plus, this would mean more much-needed surface area for "stuff" ... and what have you know, but the next day we saw someone throwing out the most beat up, trashed, weather worn broken down stepladder you've ever seen. In other words: perfect! It was already broken in half and weighed about two pounds because the wood was so rotten. So we carefully stained it and put on the poly, which is really what is probably holding it together. There were metal discs on the sides and we painted them to match the Witco stuff:

Then mounted it up from the ceiling and used the rungs to hold our Wreck Bar memorabilia:

We knew we had to make some fake poles for the Wreck Bar, but the challenge was that we didn't want to ruin the floor when doing so. We took some large fence posts from the lumber yard and let them sit out in the garage for a month so that they would begin to warp. Then we painted them with the same greenish blue from behind the bar and more polyurethane. Then using some plumbing cap connectors and shins we were able to secure them very strongly to the ceiling, and covered the tops and bottoms with rope. Because they're so warped they're a little bit crooked and look like they're going to give way: