Chair 1, Post 6/ Rachel

The first frame is finished! Now all I need are some signs to finish the chair...

Details:

Time to fabricate: About 15 hours

Amount of tubing: About 15 feet

Height: 15-16"

Seat: 16" by 16"

Length of backing: 16" at 105 angle slant

Today, I started work on my next design:

The design is rather simple, with three long pieces, each with a single bend. However simple that sounds, the bends will be hard to coordinate, and even harder to duplicate. This design is certainly more challenging to fabricate than the first one!

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Today, I was speaking with some of my metalworking classmates, and one of them mentioned my blog. She said, "my goal is to make it on your blog." I smiled and even laughed aloud, not because I thought it was a ridiculous idea, but because I didn't know she was even

following this blog. As my laughing died down, I thought, "hey, why not feature my classmates' work on my blog?"

So it is with pleasure that I introduce you to Rachel Prensky-Pomeranz, a petite and always smiling sophomore--the very classmate who mentioned my blog today:

Here she is bending one side of her frame.

Rachel designed, and it now creating, a spirally based square seat, with may have a folding back feature. She was kind enough to let me snap some photos of her sketches:

I can't seem to shift this image, but the text reads:

1) Cut down metal for side panels into correct lengths (x5)

2) Bend bend bend! (x5)

3) Decide/design hinge system

4) Weld panels together! (add reinforcements)

5) Grind

6) Paint

Rachel plans with much more precision than I do, that's for sure! Feel free to leave comments for Rachel about her work.

Tomorrow I return to the metal shop. One bend at a time, I will create the second frame of this four part series.

Sincerely,

David