Construction

For this construction project I wanted to use metals but I had a problem with how I would connect it.  I do not have the means, time or bravery to weld so I needed to come up with some other way.  I have used a two part pour on finish before and love the effect it gave so started thinking up ways to incorporated that into the project.  In the previous project I made a  candle to compliment my painting but did not have a place to put.  I needed a table under the painting where I could put my candles so that is what I decided to make.  I wanted the finish to make up the top of the table but I needed some kind of a barrier to keep it from running all over the place.  Since my parents are moving out of state they are cleaning out the garage and having a garage sale so I had a lot of random thing at my disposal for free.  I found wire metal shelf and some plexiglas but when I went to cut the plexiglas it broke.  Not wanting to spend much money I started intentionally breaking the glass and puzzle-piecing it together on the wire shelf.  I poured my finish over the plexiglas and let it set for a day.  I found some pipes and an old bat and screwed them into the sides of the table top.  Needing one more leg, I wandered around the garage for a while and found some track lighting that was the perfect size and would give a new flare to the table.   My dad knows a guy who recycles and makes doors and screen doors so I went to his shop and looted his trash for scrap metal.  I flipped the table over and arranged the pieces of metal on the bottom side of the table, threw some random bolts, coins, safety pins and other random objects down and poured more finish on the underside of the table to adhere the metal pieces to the bottom of the table.  In the end the track lighting leg will have different color lights in it and should cast some fun shadows off the metal pieces attached to the belly of the table.