Thread: Surprise!

Originally Posted by NCArcher

The machine is oiled up and sewing nicely. I've preloaded half a dozen bobbins. All systems green (dark olive green leaf) for operation cushion cover.

Well, today was THE DAY! I drove up to Katoomba with seat frames, foam, templates, Dacron filling and stapler to take up NCArchers’s VERY kind offer to sew up the cushions. First ‘we’ marked out, cut and stitched a prototype out of some spare leather and, personally, I don’t understand how crocodile patterned glossy white leather could ever have gone out of fashion?
This taught us a few lessons and so we marked out and cut the final olive/leaf/green leather and Tony then stitched the first one on his whizzbang leather sewing machine.......

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.... which is deliberately obscured in this pic as I don’t think Tony wants anyone to know how he modified it to utilise a Boeing Jumbo undercarriage servo motor rather than its originally supplied puny DC servo?
The first cushion easily passed the how-does-it-feel test....

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.... whereas, as soon as I could get Tony out of the chair, I rushed it outside to see if it passed the empathy-with-a-real-tree test.....

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..... which it did with flying (leaf green) colours!
It must have been quite a sight to others though as Tony followed me down the street with a 2 wheeled trolly knowing that there was no way I could carry it back with the same adrenalin-fuelled energy with which I carried it out! It is bl**dy heavy!
The furniture suite is now nearly ready to be handed over and for that, I thank Tony for his generosity.

I still haven’t decided whether to do the ‘kerfing’ of the underside of the tabletop yet or not but, other than that, the suite is finished. The next pics will probably be at the handover but, if that doesn’t happen, then just imagine the photos below with an uncluttered and clean background!

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Very nice work Alan. It is beautiful.

Originally Posted by Wongo

Very nice work Alan. It is beautiful.

Hear! Hear! Beautiful work.

mick

Alan

I just love that furniture!

Regards
Paul

I had to move one of those chairs this morning and it was damned heavy.

Very nice indeed!

If the top seems to be behaving itself, perhaps it's better to leave well enough alone for the moment. You could always do a mercy dash & apply the heroic cure if it turns out to be necessary...

Cheers,

Stunning!

The formal handover has been scheduled for Wednesday! I’ll get a brass plaque engraved and fixed so that people in the future will know WHY it was made. I will miss it but, it is so heavy that every time I bump in to it, I come out second!

Originally Posted by fletty

The formal handover has been scheduled for Wednesday! I’ll get a brass plaque engraved and fixed so that people in the future will know WHY it was made. I will miss it but, it is so heavy that every time I bump in to it, I come out second!

You will need a big Brass plate Alan if you told the truth LOL.

Originally Posted by fletty

The formal handover has been scheduled for Wednesday! I’ll get a brass plaque engraved and fixed so that people in the future will know WHY it was made. I will miss it but, it is so heavy that every time I bump in to it, I come out second!

Yes Alan, the fortunate recipient needs to see this great blog of the work in progress just to understand how much time, effort and expertise went into this wonderful piece of furniture. You’ve certain done a first class job. Cheers Peter

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It’s done!

Waiting for the pick up.....

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Nice cushions. The originals would have been way too big.