Tuesday, January 15, 2008

fabrication complete photo

I invested a little time during fabrication to make a template for the top cutouts. That template had the small and large cutouts for one side, I simply flipped it to the other side of the panel to complete the operation. It made the routing job very quick and easy. I made a large tank a few years ago and opted for routing against a straight edge and radius templates carefully positioned on the tank. That worked well too - but was far more time consuming.
Next up I am going to put in the substrate and plant the tank. Once that's set up then I'm going to start construction on the hood.