OK, so its been quiet on the car front for a while, just brake lines in the truck and everything else is just running so no news is good news. I did recently refurbish some wooden patio furniture I bought many years ago for $1.
Anyway, 2 chairs and a small table. Once chair was not keeping it together, and the lower horizontal supports between the front and back legs and the arms were rotting so the chair could hold no weight.
I made some new arms.
Then I replaced the horizontal lower supports with turnbuckles. The hardware is too big, so I did not achieve the look I was going for, whatever that was. They also do not provide outward pressure, only inward, so they act when tightened in conjunction with the mounting points on the new arms to make the entire structure rigid and under some tension.
I stained the set in a new Minwax color called "Classic Grey", which turned out pretty nice, then poly'd. This is before the poly was all dry.
This is before I finished staining the frankenchair, but it shows the idea. I put in some joint supports as well.
Looks a mess, but what the hell. The other chair and table turned out OK I guess.
