People always wonder what I do to make money to stay alive because everyone thinks all I do is build crazy projects for myself all day.... Then I explain I don't really make any money and am poor because I am addicted to what I do and spend all the money on cutters and more material to build more stuff...
Then they understand and offer to foot the bill for dinner...
End of story....
But when it comes down to what gets me that little bits of money to move to the next personal project here is a good example of concept to reality and working with designers and engineers to make it happen.
I teamed up with Lukas of Shibuleru Designs out of San Francisco about a new type of outdoor chair he had designed. He had the design and drawings pretty much fully locked down but it was on to me to do a lot of the little tweaks in the prototype and to do all the parts to allow it to be broken down to fit in a box and lay flat.
Just a really cool example of putting the cherry on top working with the designer/engineer to make a product just a little bit more rad but not straying from the original design plus it kept me alive and building another month....
Turned out super rad and glad to be part of the building....
Then they understand and offer to foot the bill for dinner...
End of story....
But when it comes down to what gets me that little bits of money to move to the next personal project here is a good example of concept to reality and working with designers and engineers to make it happen.
I teamed up with Lukas of Shibuleru Designs out of San Francisco about a new type of outdoor chair he had designed. He had the design and drawings pretty much fully locked down but it was on to me to do a lot of the little tweaks in the prototype and to do all the parts to allow it to be broken down to fit in a box and lay flat.
Just a really cool example of putting the cherry on top working with the designer/engineer to make a product just a little bit more rad but not straying from the original design plus it kept me alive and building another month....
Turned out super rad and glad to be part of the building....
Bent up the first set of parts without the arm rests.
If Gabe is going to take my job then hes gotta to learn...
Plus I like taking photos..
Hes welding in the connector pieces
On to the K&T mill to put the holes in for the arm rest bars...
This is the first prototype so its all learning for everyone at this point...
Lukas showed up once we had the first prototype welded up with the prototype cloth.
Its kinda fun when you get to this point in the concept to see all the things come together...
Its always a guess if you got the number right and the feel correct....
This time... we were soooo close but some adjustments to the geometry would prove the perfect fix.
I started the next group of adjusted geometry chairs that would also break down for shipping to Italy
Lukas finished up all the arm rest design and then I realized he only wanted them on the inside of the frame ( as you can see in the photo they are on both sides of the arm rest) so I had to cut off the one side of the laser cut sheet metal arm rest... no worries, small details...
The bolt together design is really neat...
It is a total of 5 steel pieces per chair and the fabric, then shipping all flat in a box designed for bicycle frames makes it really easy for everyone.
This is a close up of my welding, root pass with steel rod and Bronze over for the big radius.
I put a long bolt in it to show the hardware location all hidden under.
SOOOOO COOL
Love the black!
Close up of the bolted together pieces..
can't even tell...
Also a close up of the aluminum pieces SeaPort Laser Service cut and Metalco Anodized in a flash for us. Looks great.
The yellow was really neat!
Took me a bit to really like the color but I was sold with the fabric on it.
Quick drawing of how the seats work with the fabric.
Enjoy!!!
heres the link again
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