/DSCF6030.jpg)
Welcome to “The Great Stool Adventure”! On this adventure, Brian Sarvis and I are joined by our friend Kuni Ohi. He will accompany us down to Chesapeake, Va to take hand in the mass creation of the car part designed stools that we will be making for the diner set. It’s always fun traveling with Kuni, he has insight like no other.
Below – The three of us in the truck driving down 95 south.
Below – Kuni contemplates on the stools.
Mitch Sarvis, Brian Sarvis’s dad is race car driver and he also own his own shop. He was gracious enough to let us use the very own garage that he uses to create his own race cars, as well as create cars for other clients. This shop had everything we could need to create these stools so we’re very thankful for Mitch letting us work there.
Below – We bought the foam for the cushioning, now here’s our template measured to fit the head of the stool.
Below – Let the cutting begin.
Take in consideration that it’s been years since I’ve had to cut anything with any dangerous saw machinery, but I have to say, once the opportunity came and I was put in that position, I think I started to feel at home. I really enjoyed slicing things up. I guess that might explain why I write stories like I do.
Brian and I did a comparison of which process was better, the knife or the saw. I think the knife might have been funner though.
Below – Who watches the…
Below – Brian measuring the length of the cloth that we needed to cover the head of the stools.
The plan was that we would take the cloth and cover the complete head of the stool and staple it down. Sounds easy…
Below – Brian is about to cut one more circle so that we could compress the cushion foam down while the other staples it together.
Below – Kuni shows the world the process.
Below – Now we staple.
Once the stapling is done, we would screw in the aluminum trim around the edges of the stools.
Now by just looking at the images the process might seem like it didn’t take long at all. We’ll in real life, it took quite a while. Here are the complications that arouse as we were building this stool. You know when you see a stool at a bar or a diner and the cushion is absolutely smooth. Well we learned the hard way that that’s almost near impossible to do with just human hands. We tried everything to get the cloth to appear smooth. We pulled on it with all our might together while one person stapled it, we clamped it down. But still, we could not figure out how to make the cloth be completely smooth. It was indeed frustrating and it also took a lot of time and we still had to make 8 of these stools.
But we were able to get ONE to be as smooth as can be. I can bet money that the people who create these stools have machines that we don’t have. But anyway…
Below – Lets test the stool.
So now that made one and sorta a second one, we decided it was late and we’re just gonna head back to the diner and drop off all the materials and continue the process over there. Also, we were running out of day light time and also we have a shoot the next day for other another person’s project.
Below – Kuni
Below – Brian getting the stools out of the car. As you can tell in the background, the diner area gets pitch black during the night time. There’s nothing around really except farms and some factories. That’s absolutely perfect for the movie, but it’s also very scary and difficult to construct in, especially when there’s no power to the building.
Below – The stools in their place.
It’s getting there.
Subscribe
