Batteries out!

So no photos… finished the construction of the chaise lounge and am beginning in on the tidy up ready for coating of the protecting coat which is called penetrol. Basically linseed oil with a few additives and it works really well. Refurbished one of the chairs I made way back in about ’94 and given it has been rusting away ever since, except for the initial coat of protection the chemist at the electroplaters put on it, it has built up a very, well, what can we say, tarnished coating of iron oxide (rust) which has eaten into the surface and upon cleanup it has an age to it that is really quite fetching.
Also go some 75mm foam for the Ottoman and have stapled a layer of black calico over it and have laid out the (to be removable) cover of black drill, black indian cotton and the black leather and it’s going to be really nice. I’ll start in on the metal substructure later today. Right now I’m off to the gallery to drop off the chair and to get out of the house for a few hours. Go a bit stir crazy just spending all the day long welding, bending steel and grinding.
But I’ve troved through my old photos and heres one I took of Kierans house, out in the bush to the right of Paparoa, from when I was up there helping him with some building.