Furniture Design 2014: October 2014

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Construction

The top finished, sanded and drying from the clear coated polyurethane matte finish.

Hanging the frame in the paint room, this is after one decent primer coat, 2 coloured coats and 3 clear coats.

Full shot of the jig ready to be tacked and welded.

The last jig. It was difficult to find a way to keep the bottom legs parallel, the top legs sitting up perfectly vertical and then the cross bar level and at the right height. Took a few hours just to set this thing up correctly, mostly because the legs meet at an 85 degree angle as apposed to a 90 degree right angle.

The Varnish/clear matte finish for the top.

I went through a lengthy process of figuring out the angles to cut my steel as i wasn't convinced on what people were telling me to cut it to get the 85 degree angle. My doubts paid off when i found out the angles were taken from the wrong axis and had to be cut at 48 degrees, not 42. I made a jig so that i can keep the connections the same angles and get a perfectly clean and precise finish.

Practise for scolloping using an angle grinder

American Ash Piece that i fell in love with.

Final Technical Drawings- 2nd Rendition

Friday, 3 October 2014

Renders

Final Decisions

I am using angle iron to support the wood top as flat bar will flex and make the table bouncy, square tube is to bulky and pipe has little contact area with the surface. Angle iron cancels out any flexing in either direction and is the most suitable extrusion for my supports.

Also i will drill 3 counter-sunk holes in each section of angle iron and screw in self tapping screws to attach the top to the metal legs.

I have decided to leave the legs uncapped despite a few ideas from my tutors and it will allow space for future modification, where i can run a chord/plug through the legs to the top whilst being completely hidden. I have also decided to have the pipe that separates the two legs to be slightly higher than ground level on the back legs. This is because this is a reasonably central point and will be structurally the strongest connection location available and it also allows for a foot rest for the user.