Comments | hvw: Ta Da!

hvw

Ta Da!

Jan 21, 2009 20:34

I finally finished the thing I was working on:

An Ikea hack Instructable, which is a detailed how-to showing the desk I just cobbled together out of chewing gum, unmatched socks, and McGyver's femurs. Even if you account for the fact that I had to buy drill bits to do this, the total expenditure was less than €100 ( Read more... )

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syntart January 21 2009, 20:57:25 UTC

WOW. That's awesome! I love the plungers.

And, really, two treats? Things are much cheaper in Austria ...

hvw January 21 2009, 21:17:50 UTC

:) Thanks!!

That's a common mistake, to think 2 treats is cheap. You aren't correcting your calculations to reflect that those treats are imported to here from the US, and were made in Canada. Double-imported cat treats?? F'ing expensive. ;)

wand_r January 21 2009, 20:57:49 UTC

The fact that your new desk involves plungers is awesome. Seriously.

hvw January 21 2009, 21:18:00 UTC

Thanks! :)

midnightsrain January 21 2009, 21:44:10 UTC

High Five! That's freekin awesome! I was taking a look at your Flickr set this morning, and I saw your drawings and wondered if they were reminders of how good a time you must've had putting together this little project. I too, love the plungers. Who would've thunk it possible to be used for something more sanitary than what they are originally designed for?

It's too bad that it would've been next to impossible for you to just inherit my drafting/drawing table when I left NM. As is, I guess you should count yourself very lucky that you did NOT have to lug a very heavy table down three flights of stairs, and then determine the best way to fit it into the bed of a pick up truck to transport it home. I was very impressed by the two guys that did.

hvw January 22 2009, 06:28:45 UTC

Haha, yeah. I actually *did* have a lot of fun doing this. Although, probably not that-many-pictures-worth. If you see what I mean. :) I may even take most of those out of Flickr, now that the write-up is done.

The thing about bringing furniture from Albuquerque is.... we didn't. My dad used to have a killer drafting desk (wonder what happened to that??) and I'm finding this one is better in a couple of ways. Perhaps more conspicuously, it only has ONE heavy part! the rest of it can be totally disassembled, mostly down to pieces that weigh no more than a pound or two. And autologik has kindly offered to divorce me if I acquire any more outrageously large, difficult to move furniture pieces....

maroonmd January 21 2009, 22:35:27 UTC

YAY! Love the finished product!

hvw January 22 2009, 06:28:57 UTC

Thanks!! Thanks for you help, too!

hvw January 22 2009, 06:30:56 UTC

Er, that's your help, in a grammatically correct universe.

maroonmd January 22 2009, 07:01:03 UTC

Stupid Americans! ;)

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revelgrove January 22 2009, 01:57:08 UTC

Out of curiosity, how DID you get that huge chunk of pressboard that's the main table home?

Oh yes, and it r0xx0rz. We demand more of the Union Inspector.

Thanks! hvw January 22 2009, 06:14:59 UTC

Some burly men employed by DHL brought it on a truck...

We actually could have managed it on the tram, with two of us, but we also got a solid wood shelf/cabinet thing at the same time, and that was the straw that broke our will to do heavy lifting instead of shelling out for delivery.

You know there will always be more of The Bear. :)