Thursday, January 14, 2010

Nobody Likes A Trick Chair!

I have a client that has a set of 10 dining room chairs that are "Trick Chairs". What would be worse than having a dinner party and have a guest scoot there chair closer to the table and fall through the chair frame because the cushion has dropped through the frame. That is the "Trick" with these chairs. The first picture shows what happens to the cushion. The problem is that the chairs lack support for the cushion at the rear of the frame allowing the cushion and the guest to fall through. The first step was to make templates of the rear frame, so I could determine the angles to cut the support pieces. The second step was to cut the support pieces from 1" x 1" hardwood stock. The final step was to glue & nail the pieces with 1" Crown Staples across each of the rear frame corners.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Discovery & Rediscovery In 2010

The new year has come! Whether I am ready or not. I have decided that this new year will be a year of discovery & rediscovery. The coming of the new year for me is always a time of reflection or rediscovery. Rediscovering personal talents that have fallen to the side and discovering personal talents that I never knew that I had. When I say rediscover old talents I guess what I am saying is not forgetting or taking the talents that I have been given for granted. The challenge is finding how to use those talents in this new world of commerce that we are now in. I look to the next 12 months and I am ready! Bring on the projects, the good times and even the challenges. Happy New Year!