DREWspective

You know what? I wrote a whole article about this from the draft I did last week. But the weblog editor fucked up and didn’t save anything, so I’m going to leave it.

Over a pub lunch, I was trying to figure out how to make the legs. The difficulty came with the fact that the legs are slanted a little bit.

I came up with a couple of solutions:

• Obtain some polystyrene/wood tubes, cut them down to size and stick discs at the top to create the wide part of the legs. This would have the advantage of making sturdy legs, but the disadvantage of requiring yet more materials (and buying at least a hacksaw).

• Make a structure for one leg using some tough card, and strategically wrap funky foam around it to create the illusion of a partial cylinder. Two of these would be stuck back to back to create two "legs". The major advantage would be the use of existing materials; the disadvantages being time-consuming measuring and cutting, as well as the risk of uneven and wobbly legs.

I gave the second method a try, as it was the least expensive and immediately executable. While it was very time-consuming and hard to cut the card to the right shape, the result was rather pleasing (photo above). One rather important matter became evident: the foam would have to be cut perfectly to make this method work.

The journey continues…!