all's better

barely functioning after last night's activities so i thought i'd try and do something productive. a friend of mine is moving to an unfurnished flat, and is only there for a few months, and didn't really fancy spending out loads on furniture.they described to me how the room was going to look in their head, fairly low level stuff, eg no bed, cushions on floor etc, and they wanted a table to go in there somewhere. this was pretty exciting, actually making something for someone, and having criteria to follow, not only just for the room, but also for the person who's using it. when i was thinking about how i was going to go about designing it, i asked myself, "what do i know about this person?"
 #1. They like parties.
#2. They are kind of clumsy.
#3. They hate pidgeons.

taking the first two points into account, i figured that this thing is going to have to be the most solid thing ever. i drove the micra to the usual place, and picked up these bits for the princely sum of £15.

as with every piece of wood i get, these were knackered. two evenings sanding and sorting them out in the sun and they were lavly. at this point i still had no idea what to do for the feet. (not legs as it's so low to the ground.) after several attempts with dowel to attatch them together side by side, i gave up as they were useless. dad stole me some metal rods from work, after some intense drilling (obviously i didn't have the right size bit) i forced them together. i wanted to give to try and hide the feet as much as possible, in the end i decided on screwing some triangular shaped bits on the bottom, this works pretty good.

didn't take too long to make this one, but i think it's pretty cool. the wood has some insane character to it, and it can definately withstand a few million drinking games. next thing, a chair! sort of.

cheers


o.

camelphant.

finally cut myself from my shackles recently and dragged my pasty self to the workshop, with the intention of making something in a day, as after i would end up doing 13 lucky days straight of cheese on toast service. this took about ten hours from start to finish, admittedly i had done a bit of prep beforehand but on the day i probably did about 7 hours, given at the time i was unable to skate or do anything with much movement, and didnt really think putting myself into a drunken stupor for a whole day was very acceptable.

before carving.

 not sure on the idea behind this, i followed my my creative juices (winged it) and this is what turned out. i tried to work a bit more methodically this time however, taking more care to mark out and cut and drill etc, as shown in some of the pics below. pretty pleased with the final result to be fair, and it has fitted nicely next to a set of shelves in my room (amazingly, it is the exact same height as well.)

definately pissed off an enire village for a good few hours as i carved these bad boys.

 this project was fun, as yet again i got to do whatever the hell i wanted, and it's cool as i think after 3 items i actually have a style, kind of. next thing in the pipeline is for someone else though, and there are a few specifics, like certain heights, what they'd like to use it for and how it's going to fit in its surroundings. as with this post, i'll probably post up about it around a month after i've made it.

toodles,

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