Search result for: di frutta
| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Well I was able to find a | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Chris M. | General discussion | |
| ... dye the original covers black using RIT dye and then following up with some Tulip aerosol fabric paint which I have now learned to never use for this type of application. The fabric now feels completely like rubber instead of the wool that it once was. I'll be glad to have my new white covers soon. I also checked with a flashlight this evening for any markings and didn't find any. I was pretty thorough so if there were any I'm sure they're long gone. As for the eyelet pins I'm pretty sure those are there to keep the chair from cantilevering the backrest out ... | |||||
| "Peruche: one of those Foster | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Peruche | General discussion | |
| ... would guess you are in just the right place to find some family members who could tell you all about the company." Leif, No offense, but I'm not really that inspired by Foster McDavid designed furniture to know anymore about it than I already know. There is a couple pieces that bring some coin, but for the most part, I see Foster McDavid furniture go for pennies on the dollar when they pop up at local auction houses. Leif, here is a link to a local auction house that sold a lot of Foster McDavid furniture in their October 19th, 2014 auction. This furnitu ... | |||||
| I wonder if a lot of the cane | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I wonder if a lot of the cane issues I had with this chair and with the cow horn chairs I did a few years ago have to do with the quality of the cane. Once in awhile I'd get a strand--or a section of a strand---that was of a good thickness with no thin fibers separating off the edges. But these were an exception. This batch didn't have any serious lengthwise splits in the cane as it came out of the hank, but overall the thickness varied and the width did too, once those side hairs were trimmed off. The stuff that was on the chair originally looked much mo ... | |||||
| I finally finished the chair | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I finally finished the chair I have been redoing and thought I'd pass along a few observations. 1. After using a bunch of the wire nails that I blunted slightly to keep the end of the cane from splitting, I came to the conclusion that blunting didn't seem to make a lot of difference. 2. I have seen the photo of the chair being woven at the factory, with all the cane ends sticking out until all of the seat had been woven, and this seemed a bit risky because I assumed that the cane would be too dried out to bend nicely into the rabbet for nailing. BUT, you ... | |||||
| I imagine the person who | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | del | General discussion | |
| I imagine the person who upholstered the chairs didn't know how to take the insert off which the upholstery should be fastened to. Since these don't have it, does anyone have some advice as to how I could get this piece made? Here are a couple pictures of one of mine for reference: | |||||
| I emailed pictures of | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Nottingham Desi... | General discussion | |
| I emailed pictures of furniture and stamps yesterday to a specialist dealer who tells me the chairs are East Indian Rosewood - although he didn't say on what basis he believed this to be the case. I can make further enquiries with him about this. | |||||
| I'll be curious to know if | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I'll be curious to know if these chairs originally had back cushions. The seat looks very deep without one and usually lounge chairs had/have back cushions for comfort. I looked at a lot of photos of chairs in their current condition and most didn't have back cushions but a few did. I didn't see any old pics from Thayer-Coggin, though. | |||||
| I had to go look at the J16- | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| ... it counting on the seat not needing a re-do. If you contact the seller through ebay, do not even hint at making an offer outside of the ebay venue. Ebay monitors seller/buyer correspondence and they will suspend users who violate their terms (i.e., using ebay to advertise goods available off ebay---buyers too, maybe.) cdsilva, thanks---I didn't know that the backs on later cane seat round chairs were not wrapped! Interesting. | |||||
| Spanky, Leif, thanks for all | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | tindrum | General discussion | |
| ... a few more pictures anyway. I replaced that strapping. It was made of rubber and was falling apart. The slats for the chair back are flat cushion wife and triangular outside. Also noticed that the front of the chair is upside down the holes for the seat bottom dowels are on the bottom..apparently the chair comes apart and somebody didn't do a good job Again thanks for all the help. | |||||
| Destijl Design, you started a | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Destijl Design, you started a new thread about your rocker instead of responding in your original thread---without realizing that the two threads wouldn't automatically be linked together. People saw your new thread and didn't connect it with the question you posted a day or two earlier (probably because most people remember the subject better than they remember the name of the person posting). When you add a response to a thread, the thread gets bumped to the top of the list of threads. Eventually a thread with no recent responses sinks off the first page ... | |||||
| Wow, this is phenomenal. | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | emsy84 | General discussion | |
| ... batting, adhered with spray adhesive Is the latex around the springs the thick, dense stuff that you cut square around the box - or do you use the long sheets of more flexible stuff to make the "envelope? I guess it depends on how much room I have. Where do you normally order your foam from? Hoping I can find what I need at a local craft store so I can get started this weekend. Fingers crossed that the covers didn't shrink - I'll measure them tonight! Thank you both again for the amazing advice - gives me relief to know that I'm not going to royally screw ... | |||||
| Here's the one I redid for | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Here's the one I redid for myself---it had been badly upholstered by someone else and the frame had some minor damage, too. The screw blocks on the arms on this one were in bad shape. The frame had been screwed directly into the foam shell and was not exactly secure, as you can imagine! This is Hallingdal 890, which has olive green threads in one direction and teal blue in the other. The examples I had to go on at the time didn't have any button tufting and also didn't have the attached pillow, but it was comfortable without the pillow. | |||||
| Fabulous !!! | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | SDR | Off topic | |
| ... the imaginary hedgehog from a Monty Python piece. He was the bete noir of fictional London thug dinsdale Piranha, the one who nailed Nigel's head to the flowah -- "Well, he had to, really, didn't he . . . ?" Aunt Mark, of course, would play the part John Cleese took in the episode: dinsdale's gun moll . . . | |||||
| Leif was writing his reply as | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Leif was writing his reply as I was writing mine. The cushions I redid did not have any cotton around the springs. The kind of cotton batting I've seen in old Danish furniture was a thin, bonded mat type, like 1/4" thick at most, that looked almost like a cotton blanket except not woven. I've never seen it available anywhere now but maybe there are sources I don't know about. If you're a total purist about restoration, then you might want to try to find it. The type of cotton batting that is still made is a very thick type that can be separated into lay ... | |||||
| There are two metal rods, | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| ... for the chair to recline. There's another part that connects the rod to the cylinders at each end; it is set into a slot in the backside of the stretcher. When you turn the lever end of the rod, it depresses the cylinders and you can slide the chair back and forth to whichever of the four position you want. The back doesn't lean back so much as the seat slides forward or backward and then the back of the chair goes with it because they're connected with a piano hinge. The back of the chair pivots on bolts at the rear ends of the armrests. I didn't get it ... | |||||
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