Bed strips !!!

[GMtrucknut!!]

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?

[_Ogre]

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

[Dan in Pasadena]

The Search button is your friend:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...archid=3827114

[blue57]

polished stainless!

[Russell Ashley]

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.

[Indian113]

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.

I can't afford to have a vehicle just sit if it's a truck I'm going to haul stuff or use it like a truck.

[GMtrucknut!!]

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.

[coralhead]

Stainless on Walnut

[OrrieG]

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.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

... I wire wheel brushed and painted mine with rustoleum primer and hammered metallic black finish...

That's EXACTLY what I did to mine. They're sitting on a shelf right now.

I also intend to use polished stainless eventually...

[dubie]

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

[coralhead]

Originally Posted by dubie

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

I routed my own wood but I think you would be hard pressed to buy bar stock and drill the holes in each piece all the same for the price of a set of unpainted strips from Classic or any other vendor. $50 + shipping.

My .04 worth

[blue57]

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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