Friday October 28, 2005
Friday October 28, 2005
Gazillion!
So this past weekend I finally finished work on an outdoor project. If
you happened to read my About entry you'd know that my wife and I have
a big party every year. Since I built my hangar back in 2001 it has
been held in the hangar. One of the problems is that even though the
hangar is pretty large (60x40) the band we have can overpower the room.
So I wanted to build a stage outside for them to play on. My wife
didn't want it to be gazebo like so during the planning stages I'd been
calling it a pavillion. However it wasn't long before I combined the
names and crowned it the "Gazillion".
For this years party I only managed to get the base structure done and
the eight main roof rafters. It was good enough for the band. Since
then I'd been working on it occasionally but I made a big push the last
two weeks. You can see the results here
and here. The base of the building is 24x24 with a 4x24 cantilevered
platform on the pond side. It still needs to be stained but I'm pretty
pleased with it.
Oct 28 2005, 12:24:27 PM EDT
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