DIY Classic Looking Roof Rack
Well, like i mentioned before, there's a lot of positive response for this rack, and I drew up plans for a few other racks. One person requested a rack for advertising purposes, and they have an 4 Door Valiant. They specifically wanted something they could "toss their skateboard and backpack up there without it falling off"
Well, message received - I drew one out and started building. Weather they buy or not, I am still making the rack. It is basically a short spare tire carrier style rack.
It's a narrower version of what I made previous, and putting the wind fairing on top of the cross-sticks, with a side rail on each side, and a back rail. The side rails will be mahogany and the cross-sticks will be maple like before, and then a 1/4" aircraft ply fairing up front.
Here's the quick sketch I did - hopefully this makes it easier to understand where I'm going with projects since i suck.
I made just a few pieces today, as I was really gearing towards finishing the "Joltin Joe" which was a Chris Craft gifted to Joe Dimaggio by the New York Yankees while he was married to Marilyn Monroe. So that's a big to-do as the boat show is friday and everyone wants to see it. There's still about 4 people cranking away on it late into tonight.
Anyway, back to the rack...
I picked out and planed one piece of Phillipine Mahogany that was reclaimed from an old boat restoration and made that 3/4"x3/4" and then cut it into three pieces at 32" long.
Then i cut out my 3/4" birds' eye maple cross-sticks, but made them 1" wide this time, so they're 3/4" thick, and 1" wide which makes the washers on the nuts look better. It's more centered.
I also got a piece of African Mahogany, to do the side rails, but only cut the rear one today. It's 32" wide, 1/2" thick, and 1 1/2" tall, which will make a good side rail size.
I think I may still stain the maple in this build, but i have three colors going here - maple is fairly white, phillipine mahogany is dark red/brown and african mahogany is kind of orange.
I went for a semi gloss polyurethane this time.
I then laid out a new pattern so i could drill all the holes in every single lower piece without having to stack the sticks to get them all the same. It works good. The spacing is all the same, and it leaves about 5" of the stick hanging out on each end of the cross beams, and a much smaller gap between the sticks. This time they're about 3" and will have 8 sticks total. Right now i only have 4 cut though, the rest I will possibly get tomorrow.
Well, like i mentioned before, there's a lot of positive response for this rack, and I drew up plans for a few other racks. One person requested a rack for advertising purposes, and they have an 4 Door Valiant. They specifically wanted something they could "toss their skateboard and backpack up there without it falling off"
Well, message received - I drew one out and started building. Weather they buy or not, I am still making the rack. It is basically a short spare tire carrier style rack.
It's a narrower version of what I made previous, and putting the wind fairing on top of the cross-sticks, with a side rail on each side, and a back rail. The side rails will be mahogany and the cross-sticks will be maple like before, and then a 1/4" aircraft ply fairing up front.
Here's the quick sketch I did - hopefully this makes it easier to understand where I'm going with projects since i suck.
I made just a few pieces today, as I was really gearing towards finishing the "Joltin Joe" which was a Chris Craft gifted to Joe Dimaggio by the New York Yankees while he was married to Marilyn Monroe. So that's a big to-do as the boat show is friday and everyone wants to see it. There's still about 4 people cranking away on it late into tonight.
Anyway, back to the rack...
I picked out and planed one piece of Phillipine Mahogany that was reclaimed from an old boat restoration and made that 3/4"x3/4" and then cut it into three pieces at 32" long.
Then i cut out my 3/4" birds' eye maple cross-sticks, but made them 1" wide this time, so they're 3/4" thick, and 1" wide which makes the washers on the nuts look better. It's more centered.
I also got a piece of African Mahogany, to do the side rails, but only cut the rear one today. It's 32" wide, 1/2" thick, and 1 1/2" tall, which will make a good side rail size.
I think I may still stain the maple in this build, but i have three colors going here - maple is fairly white, phillipine mahogany is dark red/brown and african mahogany is kind of orange.
I went for a semi gloss polyurethane this time.
I then laid out a new pattern so i could drill all the holes in every single lower piece without having to stack the sticks to get them all the same. It works good. The spacing is all the same, and it leaves about 5" of the stick hanging out on each end of the cross beams, and a much smaller gap between the sticks. This time they're about 3" and will have 8 sticks total. Right now i only have 4 cut though, the rest I will possibly get tomorrow.
