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22nd November 2019, 07:07 AM #241
That doesn't sound promising, Chris, you must have struck a particularly uncooperative log. I have used E. saligna a bit & found it a much better & easier wood to work than what's called "Blue Gum" up here, or "Forest Red Gum" down your way (E.tereticornis). I made a bench top from a couple of particularly nice boards of SBG that I acquired in a swap. They came up beautifully & have remained stable with just a few mild surface checks, despite being plain-sawn, 2 inch boards. I suppose we all get lucky (& unlucky!) sometimes....
Cheers,IW
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24th November 2019, 08:07 PM #242
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.a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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26th November 2019, 02:13 PM #243
All over bar the shouting?
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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193BF04F-4D66-4063-8071-AC582428FCD4.jpg 89FA25E3-B5DC-4457-8DC3-3FD0D8B618D3.jpga rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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26th November 2019, 03:27 PM #244
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26th November 2019, 03:30 PM #245SENIOR MEMBER
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26th November 2019, 04:43 PM #246
Alan
I just love that furniture!
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PaulBushmiller;
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26th November 2019, 06:15 PM #247GOLD MEMBER
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I had to move one of those chairs this morning and it was damned heavy.
CHRIS
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26th November 2019, 07:29 PM #248
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,IW
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1st December 2019, 11:47 AM #249Woodworking mechanic
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Stunning!
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1st December 2019, 03:46 PM #250
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!
a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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1st December 2019, 06:10 PM #251
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1st December 2019, 07:59 PM #252
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2nd December 2019, 09:32 PM #253
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It’s done!a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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4th December 2019, 08:46 AM #254
Waiting for the pick up.....
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4th December 2019, 09:52 AM #255
Nice cushions. The originals would have been way too big.
Those were the droids I was looking for.
https://autoblastgates.com.au
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