Coffee table Saga Day 9
Table Date: 8/17/10
Hours Worked: 1
Total Hours Worked: 16 ½
Amount of Job done: 39.2%
Money Put Into the Project: $29.73
Total Investment: $83.46
Day 1 –Day 2 –Day3 –Day 4 –Day 5 –Day 6 – Day 7&8 – Day 9
Ok this is kind of a bullshit post cause in actuality nothing has changed in the physical appearance of the table. No, all I did was get in my car bringing along my friend Brennan who is currently traversing through Spain on Holiday for an undetermined amount of time or until his money runs out. We took a trip to the hardware store here in town where I deliberated on what to buy after in Day 8 I resolved to try paint stripper as opposed to the current method of painstakingly sanding every nook and cranny.
Turns out that is how the professionals do it anyway. I decided on some pretty serious chemical that can kill a human in a hundred different ways and in under a minute if not used properly. The bottle had more warning pictures and messages on it then a tanker truck full of nuclear waste. This being the case I decided an investment in gloves to be a wise idea as well.
All this extravagant purchasing now puts me out of pocket $28.46 from the original $15 profit I made when I initially purchased this mistake (see Day 1). I have been getting a lot of inquires about the table as of lately so I thought I would give everyone a little update on the progress or in this case lack there of.
I have Thursday and Friday off this week and may give the table a revisit on one of those two days or both considering the surf is going to be rather small those days. Then again conditions look good for a possible Jalama excursion so I guess its up in the air really. Heck who am I kidding this project still has a 67% chance of ending up a pile sticks after being subjected to my personal frustration towards it. Time will tell my friends, time will tell.
Here is all the junk I bought more then a month ago that I still have not used. I thought for good measure I would take the picture of them on the neglected coffee table.
I think the picture says it all.
While searching for pictures of bulls in the act of taking a shit I found this and just had to post it.
ya know i didnt think it looked all that bad as a black coffee table. heck it was kinda classy.
What the picture did not show as that it was painted with black spray paint and the finish was bubbling and sticky to the touch. Otherwise I agree black was not a bad color and I am definitely going to do it in a dark stain at its completion.
the coffee tables that we have at home are topped with a thick stained glass which adds more elegance to its looks*,”
Thats a cool idea. I was thinking about the possibility of a mosaic out of broken tile or sea glass.