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Slowly coming together $$$$
My 51 M1 is slowly coming together, due to financial reasons (the wife) I've slowly gotten to the point where I'm looking
to install bedwood and assemble 6 1/2 ft. box.
My question is does anyone have the proper size/dimensions and rabbit cuts of the wood that I will need. I really cant afford to buy
a kit from LMC or any other vendor simply for the pricing and shipping involved.
Stay safe, and wrench on!
financial reasons is always No.1 What is did you need three tools a measuring tape a
skill saw and optional a router . My choice was no. 1 pine 2 coats of flat black with mixed penetrol on a saw horse. And why not oak, because in short order oak will crack.
I chose not to ship lap or the router. I used a paint stick for a gap. This will get you going for short dollars looks good. We are doing a 9 foot express and I think "trex"
wood grain medium brown yes more cash but its not wood its forever....
I knew some guys who ran a flooring business, high end exotic woods that they would match and finish for high end homes. I swapped some parts with them for some Brazilian cherry boards to use on my bed. I was preparing to mill these boards to OEM dimensions and then I thought, why waste this fine wood just to make the boards the same size that Ford made them? I opted to use the boards I had in the 8 inch widths and then adjust the mounting of the bedstrips to match. Just a thought as you build your bed.
I found someone on craiglist selling white oak 1x boards that were rough cut and varies widths and lengths. I was into the boards for ~$100. The strips and bolt kit was the most $$$.
Did take some time (as with all DYI projects) but cut, routered, belt sander to fit... end result looks very good and I into it for about half of the wood bed kits if I bought it all online. Not show quality, but the rest of my truck is not show quality, but looks very good. And I am very happy with it.
When I did my truck in 99 I bought oak locally cut to size and had a furniture maker friend do the router work and drill and taper the big holes for the big bolts with the big washers. Then I did the urethane thing several coats, top, bottoms and ends and sides. I used the truck, protected the bed when hauling stuff and parked it in the garage.
In 2016 I got new bedsides and got the truck repainted. At this point some of the boards were split and many were black from moisture. So I bought 3 pressure treated yellow pine 1×6's to replace the split ones. Northern Yellow Pine was what Ford used originally. The Lowe's 1×6×8 boards were exactly the right width and thickness. They just needed cut to length and routed.
I sanded all the urethane off the old boards, while the new PT boards were drying. Then painted them all, top, sides,and ends, with oil base paint mixed to match my Meadow Green body paint.
So a guy could buy PT 1×6's at lowes or Home Depot a lot cheaper than oak.
Thanks for the input people. I’ve decided pine is going to be in my $ range.
l really like the mahogany but it’s $14.95 a foot! I can get the pine for $7 a 8 ft length
Cheers
Thanks for the input people. I’ve decided pine is going to be in my $ range.
l really like the monogamy but it’s $14.95 a foot! I can get the pine for $7 a 8 ft length
Cheers
monogamy keeps you out of trouble if you are married....lol
I'm getting ready to do the bed boards on my 52 F1 in pine to match the side boards I just finished.I'm going to have 4 boards wide 1 x 12 and redrill the holes for the strips to match. Boards will be white pine and strips will be body color red.
Last edited by RiKi5156; Oct 25, 2020 at 08:32 AM.
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