Night Stand
Three chairs (free) and one Chevy van seat (free)
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle list:
offer 2 Chairs – Okay Condition (East Dubuque)
I have two chairs in okay condition. One was a chair from a bank. It has an upholstered back and wood frame. Good condition. Good upholstery. The other is a wood chair that has been resupported with metal at the legs. Okay condition.
I live in East Dubuque near the Julien Dubuque bridge. Covered porch for easy pick up.
An Introduction
My car is a Kia.
I drive to IKEA.
I had Chick-fil-A for lunch.
Table
It took three times longer than I wanted it to, but the table is finally put together. I put the last coat of oil on it tonight, and once that dries, I’ll put the wax on and let the stink dissipate. I intended to stabilize the end pieces with some brass bolts, but the table glued together very solidly, and I’m not sure those will be necessary, so once I have a chance to live with it, I can see what I think.
The original legs weren’t sturdy enough, so I had to recalibrate halfway through. It’s essentially the same design but the legs are double-thickness now, with a layer of 1/4″ MDF between. The top is particleboard glued to 3/4″ plywood, with red oak supports underneath. The legs are red oak and MDF, rounded at the corners. I used walnut stain, and teak oil, and will finish with carnauba wax.
It’s a puzzle
I started building a diningroom/work- table over the weekend. Tomorrow I’ll start sanding and finishing. Here are the various pieces — not necessarily in order — and obviously upside down.
Osaka Station City fountain
via jwz
While we’re on the subject of Japan…
Pending pick-up
“You see? You SEE? DO YOU SEE what all of your showing out and acting the fool leads to? And now everybody drives by is looking.”
Kenneth Barry, Lunar Coffee Table
Three years ago, Kenneth Barry was just an IT guy at a cabinet shop. But when his boss asked him to help the company go paperless, he went further, assembling a machine to automate what most woodworkers were doing by hand. His first CNC router was a crude hack, its design cribbed from somebody’s website, its frame cobbled together from a pile of plastic bathroom partitions. But it allowed the twentysomething dad to make his own custom furniture with just a few keystrokes. Soon he hit on a way to combine his 3-D modeling skills with one of his hobbies, the online strategy game Spring. His CNC, he realized, could take one of the game’s “heightmaps,” which hold the geospatial data for each level, and render it as a relief map in wood. His first attempt was uneven and choppy, so for his second he went all out and built a new router, knocking down a wall in his garage to accommodate the 10- by 8-foot beast. The mission was a success, landing him a one-of-a-kind coffee table with an eerie lunar surface.
I have a deep, abiding love for Florence Knoll credenzas
Cat-Library™
This would solve all my problems. All of them.
(Via Dylan, who got it from Charlie)
Where’s Timmy?
Super Flush Toilet Can Swallow Golf Balls
During testing, the team flushes objects with a range of consistencies, including napkins, sponges, miso paste, polyballs, saw dust and corn.
And with competition from other companies, American Standard has no problem demonstrating the punch of its products, even on smart phones.
Fifty-six chicken nuggets? No problem for these crappers. Water wigglers? You bet.
from the comments
I remember watching Jack Lalanne when I was a little kid and TVs looked like furniture. He was great. When he talked with his hands, it was like he was picking up heavy shit with ease.
Dear Clusterflock: The New Year…
Hopes? Dreams? Aspirations?
Father Christmas fucked my pussy (Christmas pussy song)
(thanks, Aaron)
waxed, nailed, and stacked
Yesterday I put books on the shelves.
Also, I found this note (I assume Amy’s):
List of Pleasurable Squeaks
Basketball players’ shoes on the court
Fingers moving up and down strings of an acoustic guitar
new shelves
formula.chair by Matthias Demacker
Matthias Demacker’s indoor and outdoor ultra-thin formula.chair designed for Area DeClic is inspired by the seats used in the Formula 1 racing cars.
The Grizzly Bear Chair
The California hunter and trapper.
(via)
More firm is better.
From last week’s email:
This may seem like a strange question, but it has to be asked.
Dear Clusterflock,
What is this thing?
It’s for sale at The Cure, an East Village thrift store, but nobody seems to know what it is. Suggestions include
- a samovar
- a microwave from ancient Egypt
- a very, very old fashioned water cooler
- the top half of Lady Gaga’s next outfit
- a Dalek incubator
- a charcoal grill
Other notable items from among The Cure’s offerings include Ellen and Arthur’s lovely wedding album, a vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fanny pack, a drag-queen-sized excellent silver gown, a cool little bookcase, and this, for Cindy.
from the moderated comments spam
armchair chairs are but a moldiness after a overnight hornlike day of touch
headline of the day, II
Inventor sets world record for ‘fastest piece of furniture’
Out of Order: Motel Room with Tanning Bed
From photographer Jan Normandale of somewhere up there north of the US-Canada border.
My truck conked out at 7:00 pm on the Trans-Canada Highway halfway across the top of Lake Superior between Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and Thunder Bay, Ontario, a driving distance of 690 km/431 mi with no services between Wawa, Ontario and Terrace Bay.
