Finally it’s all starting to come together. along with the 2″ x 3″ x 3/16″ steel angle from before I cut up some 1.5″ x 1.5″ x 1/8″ as well. I made up a little jig for both the 1/8″ and 3/16″ corners to keep them lined up just right while welding them – made it so much easier. Was a little bit worried about how to weld them all up as cleanly as possible. For now the plan is to keep the finished desk in a raw state so I can’t just weld away and grind the welds down as one often does. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for May, 2009
A New Desk – part 3
May 24
A New Desk – part 2
May 20
After completely milling out the large notch from part 1 I realized that there was a better way. Originally I had planned to cut out the whole section and weld in a small piece a the top of the cutout but something hit me and I wondered why I didn’t just mill out a cutout instead of the entire notch. I could continue on and at some point regret not having succumbed to that realization, or I could cut my losses (a few hours and 8 feet of angle) and start again. The latter turned out to be an excellent choice! Read the rest of this entry »
A New Desk – part 1
May 18
The current desk situation in the loft is neither a very efficient use of space nor very nice to look at. Working on changing that right now…
Among other things, I picked up some steel – 2″ x 3″ angle. The long pieces you see are eight feet long.
After I mitered all the ends I got my hands on the CNC milling maching and made a cutout on the wider side of the angle. Read the rest of this entry »
The first real Club Workshop project was a Big B. My Better Half (MBH) just got a new office and one day we were at Decade admiring a “little” (18″) B which was made out of rustic/rusty sheet metal. Funnily enough I had already thought of making a B as an officewarming gift – mentioned that and was given the green light. Read the rest of this entry »
If you go over to Club Workshop (you should!) tell them you heard about it from A Loft In Denver for a special deal.
I’ve always had a desire to create things – probably as a result of always working on projects with my dad as a kid. However as an adult I never did much about it because I didn’t have
a) a space to call our own which we genuinely wanted to improve
b) equipment to do anything big – no table saw, planer, welder, etc
c) a space to do it all in
Last month I had another lighting project I wanted to work on but Read the rest of this entry »
Where it all began…
May 1
The first project came about because we wanted a large-scale light and couldn’t find any that were big enough, contemporary enough, or affordable. It seemed like a relatively easy project… and it was!
It’s simply a wood frame made of 1/2″ square pieces of hardwood covered in fabric with a piece of vellum on the bottom to diffuse the light.
Our second lighting project came about because the living area just had a flood light in a socket plugged into a cord which was wrapped around and hanging from the sprinkler pipe. It was not easy on the eyes – looking at it or the light it cast.
Surfing around the internet we found a piece called 85 Lamps by Droog Design, a Dutch firm, which is actually part of the MOMA collection. It seemed a bit excessive, both in terms of number of lightbulbs (yes, 85!) as well as cost ($3000-$4000 depending where you look).
After a ton of hours searching for red wire, appropriate sockets, and an affordable source for 19 lightbulbs we had everything we needed. Assembly wasn’t too difficult: wire up socket, attach to power source, repeat 18 more times, then figure out how to hang from ceiling.
There are 25W bulbs x 19 = 475W. It’s actually not as bright as you think, but it is on a dimmer because it does produce more light than we want.
Both these projects were very satisfying. They are very functional yet we still enjoy looking at them (albeit with some changes in mind).
A few more pics of the final project – didn’t take any during construction:
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