spd, that is a beautiful...
spd, that is a beautiful thing.
I don't design, I just fix up. This is one of six Erik Buch (Buck? which is it?) dining chairs I got at Goodwill a few years ago. One of my kids was using them in her apartment for a few years. They were worn and stained when I got them and I thought I'd be able to clean them up when she gave them back to me recently to sell. Uh...nope. The stains were permanent. Plus the teak was dry and scuffed with lots of those white paint marks that chair legs seem to attract out of the blue somehow.
Anyway, I happened to have this gorgeous Maharam "Pebble" wool fabric in charcoal gray. I'd gotten it for next to nothing at PA Fabric Outlet in Lemoyne, PA, near Harrisburg (support them, please!). It is easy to work with and fortunately the chairs were easier to redo than I had anticipated. Yay!
I went over all the wood with 0000 steel wool and oil. I'm really, really pleased at the way they've turned out.
had a go at the AJ
I decided to have a go at the AJ lamp since my friend was nice enough to drag it out of the Magic Dumpster.
First thing was disassembling the whole kit. Then carefully un-kinking the pole, which I got within a reasonable proximity of 'straight'. The hardest part was re-attaching the base.
I had to use a screw reamer to extract the threaded rod that had snapped off in the base. Then I determined the thread size and pitch. My hardware store doesn't carry metric so I ordered a die and a die wrench which arrived a few days ago. Then came the moment of truth. It was agonizing cutting the threads. I couldn't satisfactorily clamp down the pole so I was holding the head whilst using the wrench. It felt like I was going to snap the pole off every time I twisted.
But...in the end I was successful: I was able to recut enough threading to screw the base back on, rewire everything, try it, find out the foot switch was busted, run back to the hardware store for a new switch, re-wire everything (again) and voila!
A slightly shorter, slightly crooked, scratched here and there, AJ floor lamp!
it burns us!
Wow that sounds like a drama but good job getting it done, is there no way you could have just replaced the whole stem though?
I'm sick, 2/3 of my big order of gear is "not in stock sorry, no eta" and there is a stevedores strike on and I still have half a floor missing in the workshop.
So instead of getting drunk and abusing myself as would only be natural I'm stripping some powder coating off the Eames bases, before and hopefully after...its not as bad a job as I thought it would be, gasket cleaner,loud tunes, a butter knife and spoon is doing the job, will go up to the stonemasons next week and see if there is anything affordable.
Were those universal bases powder coated?
I've sometimes wondered what it it would take to get that gawd-awful aubergine coating to come loose. I just assumed it was a baked-on enamel. My Akubra's off to you, mate.
Too bad about your mail order. There are shop-made alternatives to the Kreg jig, though. You'll make do, I'm sure of it.
I don't know anyone with an a...
I don't know anyone with an akubra....ok I do but we laugh at him.
Its a muddy grey colour, I don't mind the aubergine and would have kept that but this has to go, 80% off now, just the fiddly bits to go. Definitely powder coated, the stuff on the stem bubbles off almost instantly, this stuff on the casting take about 15 minutes to do its work, any longer and its settling and takes more work than it should to get off.
All the Veritas stuff came but yeah Kreg router fence and a scroll chuck etc not yet. I've got a fence but its just such a pain adjusting it, this one moves like a biesmeyer table saw fence. I need to use it on the router table as a vertical jointer until I can get the electrician to put in 3 phase power. 15k later and counting....
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