Post date: Jul 01, 2010 4:7:24 PM
We had a few historic moments last afternoon:
* We replaced the back window with a slider (despite dire internet warnings).
* We closed the gaps in the side skeleton
* We trimmed the sides so that we can actually turn the truck wheels now (hooray)
* We started to figure out the lid mounting. The lid will probably be 6 ft above the truck bed on the left side and 8 feet above the bed on the right side (which means that at the tallest point, the lid will be something like 14 feet above the ground. It's going to be pretty impressive.
* We further discussed the i-beams for mounting the musician bench. Hopefully we can get those on Monday or Tuesday.
We're moving along quickly, but we still have a ton to do. The major things left to do are:
Lid:
- Shade cloth comes in on Monday, so we need to fit, cut, sew, and grommet the shade cloth to fit the lid and figure out how we attach the shade cloth.
- Figure out where the supports for the mounts will be on the lid, put in 2x4s where those will go, and close the lid
- Figure out how we're mounting the lid and do so
- Figure out chandelier mount
Skin:
- Finalize what material we're using (by end of day Monday)
- Get material (maybe we can do it in the same run as picking up i-beams on Tues?)
- Mount it (next week)
- Seal/Prime/Paint
Back platform area (where the piano bench goes):
- Figure out where the lower support beams go and install those (today?)
- Figure out where and how we're doing the entry ramp (today)
- Make floor
- Make bench
- Make railing
Left side musician bench:
- Install I-beam on the bottom of the chassis (next week?)
- Figure out rest of supports for floor and bench
- Make floor
- Make bench
- Make railing
Right side bar pit:
- Finalize how we're attaching bar pit and attach it (next week?)
- Cut out plywood back wall to continue the piano shape
Back (Front of piano):
- Source a keyboard or two or midi controllers. Possibly one piano and a drum set? (next week)
- Figure out how we're installing it
- Electronics for the piano
- Speakers for the piano
- Figure out if we want to extend the bench area to more easily support the second keyboard (I vote we have too many other things to do to worry about that)
- Keyboard cover
Lights
- Power
- Source EL wire (today/next week)
- Source spotlights (next week)
- Mount EL wire and spotlights
- Wire everything
Audio
- Source speakers (After keyboard(s) acquired)
- Mount and wire speakers
- MIDI stuff for keyboard?
Decorative elements/Misc
- Chandelier (next couple of weeks)
- Carpet for lining inside truck bed (next couple of weeks)
- Padding/carpet for benches? (next couple of weeks)
- Additional musical instruments? (continuous)
- Decorations for front of piano/misc decorations (August)
- Legs (August)