Chairways to heaven

 What a beauty for a wreck of a chair!

I was granted this amazing artifact from a benefactor mentioned in the story of the  Iron Table, 

so thanks for making all this possible :)

So the idea I had was to mix this golden backrest on it, soo-oo the question is.. Will it blend?

 A custom peg from a drumstick and a first fit... I've created a monster! :D

 Little bit of adjustments to the backrest and the angle of the chair, since the golden piece was simply too wide from the shoulders.

 Then closing all the cracks to make it last, and replacing every missing piece of wood with brass.

Scraping off rust from an iron thingy to get some tone to the golden paint to make the backrest to look just little less like plastic.

 Then getting things together and adding a surface finishing by oiling the iron thingy to get the color of the rust to the oily rag to give the chair a reddish tan!

 Selecting some pieces for the small drink-stand neccessary for this kind of chairs...

Peeling of the original faux-leather coating and saving these decent fillings.

 I will just add little bit more cotton and a thick slab of hemp fiber for vigorous softness, and then I was gonna cover it with...

This!

Ha-ha.. I just have to try.. I have never seen a furniture with fur and even thou this fine fur coat has been in our kin much longer than me, nobody is willing to wear it.. 

Honestly I have no idea how will it be like as an upholstery fabric.. feminine, posh, upscale, porny...? We'll see!

Saluting the fusion with an old electric wire.

Commemorating the leftovers.

So what do you think, does fur and steampunk go together?

Exposed!

First time out there in the open! Recycling Factory was my first exhibition and this it what happened.

With the help of friends and relatives the assembly of the compartment went good! I got free extra space to bring in the floating bed for people to try, and many were really excited about it.

I also got wonderfull feedback about my other works, though the revenuea was not something to brag about...

 At sunday I also participated to a Trashion clothing contests as a Airship mechanic, when the others were making up, I was still sewing my costume, since I was so busy with the whole event.

The theme was a "uniform hero" and the contest called Trash Queen! (Propably as Drag Queen.. kinda queer..) 

Well quess they haven't had much male participants before :)

 I also participated to Eko Design 2013 Contest with this lamp and happened to win it! Thanks to everybody voting for it in facebook!

 And since the award was given to me same time the Trashion contest ended I was there on the stage all dressed up!

 It means next year is for free, though they brilliantly typoed the date on that diploma, wording out that the free year was supposedly 2013(after paying it months ago).

 Then after a hour we got to hear the results for the clothing contest!

I was the winner for the audience votes, and got the best points for the judges on the clothes and creativity etc. but miserably failed the hair and make up!

So the girls on the left collected the pot of the Queen, quess thats fine :D 

I had fun time being dressed up steamp punkish while people where looking at me like I was crazy! :)

Rusty and gorgeous!

Now look at this! I received this awesome gift pack from a friend with a farm, a pile of iron thingies!

 And just a few days before I bought this massive 85cm circular saw blade from a junk store, I figured out all this would go nicely together.

 So first I took out all the bearings from the crankshaft and made some holes with threads for bolts to acquire good and removable couplings, since the finished table would not be moved easily as one piece.

 Then I comissioned a steel working company to drill a 28mm hole for the old weed cutter for horses to have it as a steady table top.

  They also lathe this iron cylinder for me to make a nice connection for the two lowest parts of the table.

 I brushed the dirt out and oiled all the iron to have a nice surface.

 And cut and moved the original crank of the weed cutter  upside down to hold the table top steady.

 Left the flywheel for the legs and polished all the surfaces with several pieces of old sheet.

Here's the cutie, ready to serve as a table!

Wellcome to check it out in few days to the Recycling factory!

Time to fly!

I once saw this artist who had made a chair that was floating in the air by the repelling force of magnets

and it raised a question that got stuck in to my mind;

How would it feel like to lie on a floating bed ?

Well I had to find out, so this is the story about it :)

I got this awesome pile of wood from a friend, and with some pondering I figured out how to make a bed out of it.

 Made few little adjustments.

Tested it out.

Got the legs ready for the magnets.

And the when the package of eight 400 kilo neodym magnets arrived,

 I carefully sealed them inside the legs.

(without any darn metal on the table) :D

Then made all the attachements to keep the bed from floating around the house ;)

 

Piled it up to for the test.

And Got all the answers needed!

Sweet dreams and welcome to test it to the Recycling factory in two weeks! :)

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Goggels behold!

As many of you might know, I'm attending the Recycling factory in couple of weeks as my first exhibition and on top of this I opt to participate to a recycle-fashion-kinda-costume-contest as a Airship Engineer !

So I have a costume to make and since good goggles are such a crucial part of steampunk I just had to make a pair.

 This is what I found for this, an old oil lamp and a lens collection from a epidiascope.

 Everything set apart to the useful pieces. 

 Lens set inside the crown to make it work as a telescope with another lens in front of the eye.

 Some leather glued to back and front.

 And behold the goggles! Works with bronzen boys,

                                            Babies,

With my wife :),

And with me with the hat of an airship engineers!

Needless to say, it's luxury!

I found this old drawer of a sewing machine table under our fireplace amongst old firewood stacked there

 and aspired to do something cool with it!

So I took an old waterfilter thingy and cut a good chunk out of it.

 

 Gave it a good spank.

Then drilled some holes with some help.

 Lined the box with some rough hemp fabric.

Made a apecialized hinge for the door and some mountings for the hanging.

Aaand here we have it! A wine bottle showcase for a dining room that has everything. 

True luxury! Never know I needed one before I had it! ;)