The Nature of the Prototype

Here's the crazy keyboard I was talking about:



Lack of posting recently is due to working extra hours in shop the last couple of days. I got the spines welded on yesterday. Here's the chair, just after welding.



Then I began to work on the hard part of the chair: the rods. I cut and measured all 15 of my 5mm rods, only to have Flemming come over and tell me that I should use 6mm. Good thing it only set me back about 60-90 minutes. I had already started to roll a few of the 5mm, and here's the picture with them.



You wouldn't think 1mm would make a difference, but it really does, both structurally and aesthetically. The 6mm definitely do look better with the bigger tubes. Today, I rolled all the rods. I am now in the middle of bending, trimming, and fitting them onto the structure. I managed to get 8 of the 15 done and ready for welding. It takes about 45 minutes to do a single rod, so I've got about 6 hours tomorrow solely dedicated to finishing the remainder.

Then it's on to welding. I'm going to bypass the jig and just hold each piece while Hee tacks them into place. I don't have a picture of it as it stands now because I didn't take my camera in, but I'll post a picture of it (hopefully) welded all together tomorrow. I'm happy with how it's turning out, although if I could go back and change some things, of course I would. But that's the nature of the prototype, I guess.

Better get to bed. I'm going in very early tomorrow. It's going to be a 7am-til-I-get-done day.