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Ok, here we are at the photos page(s) (Finally got around to getting some of this done!). I guess I'm really going to be making one very long page, and will break it up by subject once I get more photos together. Anywhoo...and away we go...

I have written about the tent frame I made for my Panther Regent tent. This is a photo of the frame's pyramidal top section. The rope you might see in the middle is for the raising and lowering of a battery lamp to provide lighting. It has 4 legs that go into the corners, and when the tent is on it (photo on right), you can't tell that there is no center-pole.

The tent frame is made out of EMT tubing (available at Lowes and Home Depot) which is usually used as conduit for running wiring inside buildings. The joints are custom made to the tent's dimensions (and now that I have a chop-saw, I can do much neater work with the cutting) using a wire-feed welder (I use flux-cored wire, as I don't have a gas tank yet).

These photos, from left to right are: a leg of, a corner of, the assembled perimeter, the assembled frame for a slat style bed I made for myself. It assembles without tools, using bed-rail hardware at the corners and pegs to hold the slats in place. I am hoping to get plans drawn at some point (probably after I make a second one with some improvements). The bed-rail hardware is from Rockler Woodworking, and there are other types as well (one reason for the desire to build another bed is to test other hardware that might make assembly easier).