the 80s are back!
Well, they have been for ages, haven't they?
But why oh why would you want a bit of 80s design in your new house? I dunno, but I'm making this hideous thing for someone who does:
We all think it should be coloured pink and grey and be made into a fabric pattern or something. And this guy is having fourteen of them stacked up through the stairway of his house...(it breaks building regs though, as I pointed out, so to pass BR will have perspex screwed over it....YUCK.
Anyway, it started out as a reasonable job, before I got landed with making all fourteen of them on my own - it's a bit boring. But the guys are amusingly impressed by the fact I can bend up all the pieces pretty much by eye. none of them have ever made anything like this, and God only knows how they would have gone about it (well, they weren't going to bend it, I know, from before it became 'my' job, they were going to put each straight bit in separately. Nutters.) Obviously the most important thing is that every joint is straight - so you can't tell which bars are split and which are solid. But I don't think you can tell...
It is one of those jobs that requires setting fire to your glove about once per minute though - icky. burnt through one glove completely already. And the soles of my boots have more bar melted into them than is healthy, I have to keep stopping and picking it all out of the rubber or it sounds like I have tap shoes on.
That's all I got...
But why oh why would you want a bit of 80s design in your new house? I dunno, but I'm making this hideous thing for someone who does:
We all think it should be coloured pink and grey and be made into a fabric pattern or something. And this guy is having fourteen of them stacked up through the stairway of his house...(it breaks building regs though, as I pointed out, so to pass BR will have perspex screwed over it....YUCK.
Anyway, it started out as a reasonable job, before I got landed with making all fourteen of them on my own - it's a bit boring. But the guys are amusingly impressed by the fact I can bend up all the pieces pretty much by eye. none of them have ever made anything like this, and God only knows how they would have gone about it (well, they weren't going to bend it, I know, from before it became 'my' job, they were going to put each straight bit in separately. Nutters.) Obviously the most important thing is that every joint is straight - so you can't tell which bars are split and which are solid. But I don't think you can tell...
It is one of those jobs that requires setting fire to your glove about once per minute though - icky. burnt through one glove completely already. And the soles of my boots have more bar melted into them than is healthy, I have to keep stopping and picking it all out of the rubber or it sounds like I have tap shoes on.
That's all I got...