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27-05-2019, 09:05 PM
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Re: Please take another seat.

Bespoke pieces sell for thousands!!!

Do you need an agent?
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27-05-2019, 09:13 PM
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Re: Please take another seat.

Originally Posted by Rhian ->
Fruity you should be on that Trash for Cash programme (or shatever it's called) as one of their innovative designers and craftsmen!

Seriously, wow
"Money For Nothing"
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27-05-2019, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyxell ->
"Money For Nothing"
Oops!
Yes that one (she mumbles as she goes back to correct the glaring typo in the quoted text)
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27-05-2019, 10:45 PM
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What a brilliant idea!
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28-05-2019, 06:42 AM
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Re: Please take another seat.

Originally Posted by Rhian ->
Oops!
Yes that one (she mumbles as she goes back to correct the glaring typo in the quoted text)
I've only just noticed it!

(I need new glasses, though! )
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28-05-2019, 09:23 AM
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Absolutely lovely Fruity.
You are so clever.
Love all the pics of the stages.
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28-05-2019, 01:41 PM
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Good work Fruity ... love to see the old churn restored.
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02-06-2019, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Fruitcake ->
It's usually my Lovely Cousin who says, "I've had an idea," but this time it was my turn. I had an old defunct solar powered water feature in the form of a glass fibre milk churn that I wanted to turn into a seat,

so …

I took the seat of a bar stool



to use as a pattern



to make the basic shape of a tractor seat, but in wood, using the top of an old fish tank.



Roughing out.



Shaping complete with a little trompe l'oeil (to deceive the eye.) It's actually a thick block of wood, but the idea is to make it look like a piece of thin cast iron.



I decided making tear drop shaped slots was too much like hard work, so I bought a set of 22mm holes to install instead.



Now to make a start on the milk churn.



A few coats of Hammerite to make it look like aluminium.



Being only thin, hollow glass fibre, the rim was too weak to take the weight of a people, so I decided to make a lid. First, a plug to spread the load.



Two concentric circles and the cap of another churn as a pattern.



If the cap fits …



… paint it.



Poor cow.



Best in show!



Nicely churned out.



Final assembly.



Look at it from my point of view.



Now I just need my Lovely Cousin to decide where to put it.

Here, next to a French churn?



Or here in front of the dining room?



Oh well, she will decide eventually.

I know I am blowing my own trumpet, but I have to say I am ever so slightly chuffed at the result.
Well deserved - fascinated by your workshop- how about a photo tour?
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04-06-2019, 08:03 AM
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Where/why have all the photos gone? I wanted to have another look!
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04-06-2019, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->
Where/why have all the photos gone? I wanted to have another look!
I can still see the photos Tabs
 
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