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


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