After a little bit of begging and a short lecture, I bought myself a new toy today. It’s a Bostitch nail gun. Well, actually it is 3 guns and a compressor.
It is bad to the bone. If you have ever taken the moulding off the frame of a door, it is stapled [...]

Look closely at this picture and see if you can imagine a loveseat forming out of this.

Progress on the prototype loveseat has come to a screeching halt. My workshop is full of other furniture (not of my design) right now and I have nowhere to work. I’m desperately trying to get rid of this corner entertainment center that is taking up the lion’s share of my work area.
I may, [...]

I have finished the upholstery on the loveseat. Now I have to build the frame.
As a reminder:

Current situation:
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The bottom of the seat is going much more slowly, complicated by the fact that the in-laws came today to work around the house. Okay, don’t let me blame them, because they didn’t actually do anything that would have stopped me from finishing it. I just wasn’t organized enough or driven enough to do it.
I’m [...]

This is what 5 pounds of hog rings looks like.

Hog rings, in case you are wondering, are for attaching upholstery to frames. So you can make something like this:

So I have the top half of the seat reupholstered and am currently working on taking the old hog rings out of the seat bottom.

A long time ago (roughly 7 years now) I worked in a junkyard. We used all kinds of things from the cars for various non-automotive purposes. For instance, we would take the oil out of the cars and put it into this drip system which was used to heat the shop during the [...]