Grub Brother

After some days of work (in fact some days of waiting for the paint to dry), our wonderful table that looks better than every crap you can buy anywhere is finished! Yay! This morning we started with printing the vectorized scan of the chosen sketch (the toad man) on 4 DIN-A4 paper sheets, glued them together and copied the sketch on the tables surface. Afterwards we carved the lines, messing around with the lousy quality of the wood, and when this was finally done the whole thing was painted. Again the awesome stink of the paint pervades my room, only this time not as strong as when we painted the entire table.

Now we don’t have nothing more to do then waiting for the paint to dry – two or three days I think. Even the white paint we applied two or three days ago has still not dried, at least it has quit smelling. Woohoo! Continue reading

Two days ago we got us some wood, color, angle brackets, waste amounts of screws and a rasp. The goal: Building a table, instead of doing it the capitalist way and buying a capitalist one. And we thought it to be mighty more interesting than just rushing into the next IKEA and grabbing there the default stuff. And we did it! We manufactured our own table: Beautiful as hell! Massive and heavy as an elephant! Wooden as the rain forest! … uh, as a tree, and painted it white as an eggshell! Now my whole room stinks of thinner harder than the worst chemical plant you can imagine. I swear, no joke! My windows are gaping wide open to improve the air quality, freezing me to death (outdoor temperature must be two degrees above 0°C). I hope I won’t have to wait ages for the thinner to evaporate … Arrrg!

But there a still plans for this fine table. First it needs a second layer of paint. Second we plan to carve interesting patterns into the surface and paint them red, red as blood, omg. I will finally put some new pictures on the blog when it’s done.

Update, 21.3., 03:01:

The second layer is finished and the dreadful scent about to vanish. Sketches for the motive we will paint onto the tabletop also have been done and will be published tomorrow. And I tell you: They’re the real wicked stuff!