Somebody set up us the bomb baby!

Thats right! The base is completed and you know what that means? If you said all your base jokes then not only are you correct but all your base do indeed belong to us. David, my chief collaborator in all this, has returned from a 7 day cruise of the western carribean, lucky dog.  But he was excited to be back and with his help we completed construction of the base, got it's feet painted and put on, and the Luon wrapped around the front piece.  Stick a fork in it!  All we need to do now is install the carpet on the base, said carpet is on order and will merit it's own post when it gets here.  Getting to the the table top soon!

Words are boring you see.  Well main screen turn on for some pix

The bottom of the base, look at the stylin feet!

The last of my Luon wasn't quite tall enough to go all the way up under the foot rest.  I'm just gonna carpet over that gap and hope that no one notices.  Shhhh it'll be our secret okay?

From the top.  Sturdy as an ox, an ox with a rockin footrest.

Because you wanted to see the unfinished part

So ya, this is the base again.  Pretty sweet huh?  

Know how many screws it took?   OVER 9000 - oh never mind wrong meme

Japan is our theme for the nights Amazon sales section.  Our first stop, Pocky cause it's good, you should buy some (Srsly - Almond Crush rocks).  Now hows about a hug pillow, if you bought the condoms from a post or two back you probably aren't in the market for a hug pillow, but for everyone else?  They should buy one or two. (You haven't lived if you haven't watched some one marry one of these things.)   Back on a serious note, with a quick bow to O Sensei, brush up on your budo with a book by or about Morihei Ueshiba.  I'll finish out my list with some music, and as tempting as it was to put some J-Pop in there, I decided to go with something a little more approachable - so Hi-Standard it is, their cover of California Dreaming is one of the most awesome covers ever.

I feel good. (I Knew that I would tho)

Ahhhaii!  Hoooo ha whoa.  I feel nice, like sugar and spice. We can practically call the barrel portion of the base complete.  It is batted, upholstered and lined to completion.  We will need to do some cuts where we are joining to the table top and do the plunges for the bill counter and chip tray - but for the time being I am declaring the pedestal done!    Talk about looking fantastic!  For the upholstering I got my Mom to come over and give me hand and I think you'll agree she did a fantastic job!  Then later my friend Chris was kind enough to help me finish the bottom and hang the inner lining.  I'll let the pics do most of the talking!

Batting glued down and trimmed.

Battered

What swings and misses, for $100 please Alex

White plastic panel installed

In a white room, with black curtains...

50's lounge!  Whomp there it is.

100% Awesome

Looks like someone could stand to clean the garage instead of working on the table eh?

100% less Hippo than the last picture.  Bet you won't get that reference.

Here is another shot that has nothing much new in it.  It's the 10% more free picture.

Tonight I am selling things suitable for the godfather of soul!  First up have your own Celebrity Hot Tub party, then cool off and shoot your car!  Tool around Augusta and play a round at the masters and then take it easy

I don't know, what do YOU do with a drunken sailor?

Nope it's not a boat or a ship despite being curved like one.  The half barrel is all but completed and should be ready to be upholstered over the Thanksgiving holidays.  w00000t!

Nothing else much to report, David came over, we cut the luon to length and glued and screwed it down.  Awesome stuff - let the pics speak for themselves, well with the help of the captions I give them.

Inside the barrel, there is a joke there but I'm too lazy to work it in.

Profile Left

Ohh Curves, (The gentleman's club!)

Right Profile

Side view

Artistic top shot.

Artisticier Top Shot with a Jaunty Angle.

Fundraising time!  I said w00t in my post and I admit to being a big fan of woot.com.  Well woot doesn't help me earn chairs - so here are things that woot sells.  Kind of like props to them, only they don't make anything either.  *sigh*  Oh yeah woot is now part of Amazon!  Hooray!  Everyone wins when you buy from me!!!

That's what she said.

Ooooh ribs!  For her pleasure. I know, obvious joke is obvious eh?  I am stoked though - the table is beginning to look like a table.  Tonight we, as in myself and my buddy David, got the barrel assembled, so it is ready to be wrapped in luon and upholstered.  The base and footrest can be seen below, although they have not been fully assembled and are only resting in place in the pictures.  We threw the play surface on top for good measure and wow you really begin to get a feel for how it is going to look when it is finished!

Taking Shape - the base is not fully assembled, and the barrel is just set on top.

Side view

Another profile

From the front

Other side from the front.

The back

WTF is this?

This was supposed to show corner detail, but the pic doesn't really show the clever way we did the corners

Cardboard just stuck on the inside just to see how the real interior might be finished.

More of the cardboard

So what am I gonna sell tonight?  I'm thinking that I'm not quite done with the ribbed jokes yet so here comes some more.  Top 10 answers are on the board, we asked 100 people surveyed to name something that is ribbed.

Survey says!

Remember Vinyl is Expensive

The padded rail is a wrap! Took it over to my Mom's house to make use of her huge table to work on. Thanks Mom! All in all pretty happy with how it came out - it came out great for a first attempt, but I'm certain I could do an even better job it the next go round. Read all the stuff on rails floating around the internet, and got some good advice from a coworker who's father does upholstery (Thanks Mr. A!)

Here are the pics of it coming togethor, started at the outside and worked my way around in small sections. I pulled the vinyl tight and my mom stapled it down - electric stapler from stanley for sale down below :) It was a life saver!

Here the foam is being glued to the top of the rail, there is sufficient overlap to wrap around to the base.  Oh and Mom said to ignore the laundry room in the pic.

More of the gluing.  That there us the 3M #77 Spray adhesive. 

You can see how I jointed the foam

I put down newspaper so the arm rest wouldn't pee all over the table.

More foam and glue

Before warping the vinyl around

Wrapped and needing a trim

Like a car wash eh?

Why in the hell did I take three pictures of this needing a trim?

Scratch that... 4 Pictures.  HA HA HA I love counting pictures.

Here it is finished.

Finished pic from the back

Look it's that electric staple gun that saved me so much time! I bet you'd like to have one too! Click the buy link and get your own, it's great for stapling things like vinyl to the padded arm rest or notes to your self so you wont forget the milk.

What good is a staple gun without staples? I got the 3/8" ones cause that was the right depth for me, and they are short enough that unless I staple something to my hand I don't have to worry about hitting bone. (Cm'on it's halloween!)