Working the design for the top lid of the cooler to showcase Greenville County Special Operations insignia.

The cooler itself is now complete! The only thing left to do is design and make the lid. That's no small task and my plan is to inlay this image below. It is going to take some testing and prototyping. It will take a few weeks to think through this. The cleanest approach I think is to use pigmented epoxy and run 4 individual stages. Here is a pic of completing the final closed cell insulation install. Note the wood braces on the outside. This is to ensure that the cool

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