Lo, I have been busy!
Sep. 17th, 2007 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gracedpalmerClearly, I won't be updating every day, the way I'd hoped. It's too easy to get distracted by work and other things which must be done. However, I'll try to keep up a reasonably frequent schedule of weird stuff. No promises on specifics, especially since I'm headed to Houston as of Wednesday, and won't be back for a week. In good news, I've finally managed to set up my electronics shelves and will be able to disassemble the big printer and also scan the pre-Gencon work I've been sitting on.
I haven't added many new projects to my roster at the moment, at least, not ones that are at a point for blogging about. Therefore, have some photos of something I've already done!
Right before we moved, a notice came across Freecycle that there was a big steamer trunk curbside. After some adventures, it made its way into my car. After some other adventures, involving a socket set, it made its way back out of my car. However, it's nearly 100 years old, judging by the travel papers that are still stuck to it. The fabric lining had developed its own very special scent. It was also missing handles and a bear to carry. So I fixed it.
Mr. Trunk is a pre-1920s Mendel Trunx, among the biggest sorts of trunk ever made. It's not particularly valuable. Older trunks can be worth a lot, since they feature wood exteriors and spiffy tin-plating. This one's covered in an early synthetic black material that causes trunk people to refer to them as OBTs (Old Black Trunks). It's meant to sit up on one end and store clothes on really long trips, like a mini closet. To this end, one side is made up of drawers. The other is for hanging suits and the like. A $1 pint of blueish violet indoor latex took care of the stained floral fabric and most of the stench. Febreeze and an incense stick killed the rest. I also used my handy dandy old-fashioned hand drill to install four casters, two on each side of the bottom of the trunk. Still needs handles, but it can now be moved across flat surfaces without the handlers wishing for death.
Deeply hideous:
Real, Period Cabbage Roses:
Inside left, painting started:
All done!:
The true test of any enclosed space:
I haven't added many new projects to my roster at the moment, at least, not ones that are at a point for blogging about. Therefore, have some photos of something I've already done!
Right before we moved, a notice came across Freecycle that there was a big steamer trunk curbside. After some adventures, it made its way into my car. After some other adventures, involving a socket set, it made its way back out of my car. However, it's nearly 100 years old, judging by the travel papers that are still stuck to it. The fabric lining had developed its own very special scent. It was also missing handles and a bear to carry. So I fixed it.
Mr. Trunk is a pre-1920s Mendel Trunx, among the biggest sorts of trunk ever made. It's not particularly valuable. Older trunks can be worth a lot, since they feature wood exteriors and spiffy tin-plating. This one's covered in an early synthetic black material that causes trunk people to refer to them as OBTs (Old Black Trunks). It's meant to sit up on one end and store clothes on really long trips, like a mini closet. To this end, one side is made up of drawers. The other is for hanging suits and the like. A $1 pint of blueish violet indoor latex took care of the stained floral fabric and most of the stench. Febreeze and an incense stick killed the rest. I also used my handy dandy old-fashioned hand drill to install four casters, two on each side of the bottom of the trunk. Still needs handles, but it can now be moved across flat surfaces without the handlers wishing for death.
Deeply hideous:
Real, Period Cabbage Roses:
Inside left, painting started:
All done!:
The true test of any enclosed space: