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Well I am getting ready to purchase new bed strips and cant decide steel, stainless steel unpolished ,or polished stainless steel ! how about some of the guys showing me what they used?
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Re: Bed strips !!!
bed strips are designed to be above the bed wood so you can shovel gravel/manure/bodies out of the bed
i painted mine and cut my bed wood to recess the bed strips just a tad my bed ''wood'' is trex plastic decking ![]()
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Re: Bed strips !!!
I used un-polished stainless strips from Mar-K. I use my truck so durability is more important to me than appearance. My floor is pine painted with Rustoleum.
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Re: Bed strips !!!
I feel that the bed strips and the type of wood in a box is determined by how your going to use your truck. If your just going to show it and keep it out of the weather Oak and Polished Stainless would be my choice-it has to be the best looking. Pine and Black painted steel is more practical if you have to use your truck like I'm going to have too.
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Well after looking at the pictures others have supplied , I have decided to go with the unpolished stainless strips. I think the ease of no maintenance really seemed appealing.
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Stainless on Walnut
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No photo but I wire wheel brushed and painted mine with rustoleum primer and hammered metallic black finish. it will get used and I wanted something I could touch up. May go stainless in the future, easy to switchout.
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has anyone used something other than factory replacement strips?I plan on running a router across the edges of my wood to create a recess and then use painted flat bar stock
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Yea...... custom steal planks instead of wood with polished stainless strips that resembles the strips on a tailgate of a 56 nomad
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