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Accent Wall Made from Barrel Staves
I am about to build an accent wall out of used barrel staves in our distillery entrance foyer. Any suggestions / tips from those that have done this before to make the installation easier?
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I cut the staves into shorter pieces, then ripped to uniform width. You can’t tell afterwards. I chose to put them on a black background. Looks pretty killer. A fair bit of work, but I had time to kill during stripping runs so I thought I’d pimp out the tasting room. I stained some of the lighter ones in this picture to better match the others.
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Beautiful work – love how it came out. Did you rip them down on a table saw? I was thinking if making a jig to hold the stave and slide it through for the first cut to get one flat face, then flip over and run it through to the final width. I painted my wall black also, its a sheet rock wall and am thinking a dab of construction adhesive on the ends and shoot in some some finishing nails to hold it in place.
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I cut them to approximate length on a chop saw, then ripped to proper width on a table saw by hand (very easy, no jig was needed), then planed the underside of the stave to get flat ends on the charred side. Then cut to final length on chop saw again. Sounds like a lot of steps, but it made it very tight and wasn’t bad.
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Thanks!
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If you just want to do a simple horizontal effect, sort the staves by width, wash the shit out of them. Dont use a power washer or it will remove the patina. Get as much of the char off as you can.
Black background is a must. Use a laser level. I glued them to our wall, then pin nailed.
Light, uniform stain. Then a multi coat poly seal.
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Looks great, I am wanting to do something similar to the bottom of our bar front in the tasting room. Thanks for the pictures and
tips!
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