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RE: Mermaid Mosaic Part 4, Completion!
WOW! This turned out so amazing! I just can't believe the work that went in to this, you guys have a true talent! I'm sure the customer will be ecstatic when it's installed. How thick was the plywood just out of curiosity, it was hard to tell from the photo?
thanks so much @bluelightbandit and I really love hearing your reactions to each of these posts in the series, it's meant a lot to me. And you are correct, the customer IS ecstatic and is actually having me make a piece for the pool house wall behind where the tile saw is in the photo - needless to say I'm very pleased about this!
I think the plywood we used was 3/8 or 1/2". We were trying to keep it light in weight but strong enough to hold the tile if we wanted to move it. It bent too much in reality, was too heavy and very unwieldy when it came to moving it.
I was just wondering because I have carried many of sheets of plywood in my day and I know the slightest increase in thickness really increases the weight and I can only imagine how heavy that was. Congratulations again! 😊
you are so right...these get heavy very quickly and it was this project that taught this to me the hard way.