Comin round the mountain charming Betsy

Big news! We got bar stools! All seven of em to boot!  Expect a stool post and a felt post in the next day or so too.

Nothing much to report, first coat of finish is on the betting track, pics will show you some imperfections in the finish that we will fix with a second coat.  Redid the wrist rest with a solid piece of foam instead of pieces of foam and it turned out fantastic.  Pics will show a much more even stracth to the vinyl and a much more finished look - this time I didn't cut the vinyl too deep!  Yay me.

Chip case w00t!

The stools

That's not the same KFC bucket in the fridge that was in there two weeks ago.  OK I lied, it is the same KFC bucket from two weeks ago.  Someone needs to clean out the fridge.

Shot from the comic room

the rest of the room

This time with feeling!  

Even the back staples look better this time

Betting track with finish, view full size to see defects

After the first coat of paint

Look what you made me do

It's shiney even if a bit flawed

More stuff to fix, but it still looks great!

 No Amazon this post, unless I come in and do it later.  Pressed for time and gotta jet!

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!)

Lay down your burden and rest your weary arms.

Construction of the Arm Rest has begun.  The upper and lower arm rest arcs have been cut out.  Currently they are glued and clamped. Tomorrow night I will screw them together and possibly start gluing the foam down, if I am feeling industrious I might do some of the vinyl wrapping on Thursday - but I kind of doubt it.  Wont get to do anything this weekend as I will be visiting the casino's in Tunica MS to get my gamble on :)  So aside from small updates nothing much will happen again until next week!

Cut out pieces

Clamping the bottom arc to the top

I bought a bag of clamps and boy am I glad!

I'm building a boat!

Wood.  Cut.  In the shape of a table.

Oh hey- look what I found some more stuff on Amazon to pimp err um recommend to you.  If you are reading this you should buy something!

Hey it's Gorilla Glue!  It's made from real Gorilla's too, they grind them up when they get to old too race.   Seriously I do love Regular Gorilla Glue, used it to repair a chair and it did an awesome job.  This is my first time using their wood glue, and well my first time working a woodshop type project but I bought their wood glue cause their normal glue rocks!

Hey it's 3M #77 Spray Adhesive!  It's made from real 77's too, they grind them up when they get too old to race.  Okay so it's not as funny the second time around, but this is what I am using to secure the batting and the foam to the table.  Now in all honesty I haven't used it yet - but after I have you can bet I will use the unused portion as hairspray to keep my Elvis doo rocking cause Aquanet is for fools.