We're working on lamp placement and figuring out the performer catwalk.
Entries Tagged as '2009 While She Waits for the…'
LA Project: Set 1 (Lamp Cubes) Stacking
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the...
LA Project: Set 1 (Lamp Cubes) Painted
February 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 2009 While She Waits for the...
LA Project: Set 1 (Lamp Cubes) Painting
February 13th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the...
Kelly Capek and Brent Gentile helping us paint. Each cube had 59 planes to paint.
This is one of those things that took a LOT longer than we thought.
LA Project: Set 1 (Lamp Cubes) Built
February 10th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the...
110 Lamp Cubes. It took us a couple hours just to take the lamps out. Next step is painting them.
Update: it's surprising how many surfaces there are to paint in those things.
LA Project: Set 1 (Lamp Cubes) Almost Built
February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the...
Some of the lamps have more personality than others.
LA Project: Set 1 (Lamp Cubes) Partially Completed
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the...
LA Project: Er, Still Cubing Lamps. End is in sight. Looking Forward to That.
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the...
23 cubes
This is how much wood it takes to make 23 cubes. We've already made 75. The total will be 107.
LA Project: Constructing Cubes Background
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the..., Tools and Tech
Thanks to our friend A, we got a roll of this fabric (with about 300' on it) for a ridiculously small amount.
BTW, that's our home-made tool scaffolding. It's about 5' tall and gives us easy access to our 10' ceiling, which is needed often. More than that: the middle shelf has all of our commonly used tools and the bottom shelf has an air compressor and vacuum. We just roll it to where-ever we're working.
Broken Tool Grinds Production to a Halt
January 20th, 2009 · No Comments · 2009 While She Waits for the..., Tools and Tech
Omer 12.40
We're fans of Omer nail guns, and the Italian made Omer 12.40 is a wonderful instrument to build with–as it should be at $271: 2-3 times the cost of common 18 gauge brad nailers like a Porter Cable or Senco. It's built like a tank and has subtle and nuanced features and balance other guns don't have (even better than the $365 Max NF255-ST/18). These features are hard to describe but they make it worth the price for anyone who spends a lot of time with a brad nailer like we do.
However, a tool is only as good as its weakest component and today we discovered exactly where that is: the plastic magazine cover (and in particular a thinner point on the cover). After working hard for 5 years, I suppose something found a way to get to it. We've sent an SOS to Omer. Hopefully they'll set everything straight asap.
UPDATE: Omer is amazing. They're fixing it for free (it has a lifetime warranty) and fast (about a 2 week turn around). Pleased as punch.
