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Working With Foam, Velvet & Felt
I'm going to glue this foam together and then cover it
with velvet. The four pieces at the left are 1/4" thick and the two on the
right are about 1/8" in thickness. I'll be gluing two thick ones and one
thinner one together as a set.
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I didn't have any spray glue so I used
some five minute epoxy to attach them. Once the glue was dry, I
sanded each one and then glued some velvet to each one.
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Problems
I wasn't happy with how stiff this foam was, plus I over did it with
how much glue I used. I tried messing with these foam pieces but I
wasn't happy with them, so I decided to remove the velvet and start over.
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I found some nice soft 1/4" thick foam that I had laying around, which I hope works better than the other stuff. I cut out a few pieces like I did before
and again
glued those together (with less glue).
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A few minutes later I had more velvet glued on and then started trimming
all my pieces.
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This softer foam is going to work much better and I'm pretty confident
it will be what I'm looking for.
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I'm going to cover the entire bottom of the base with felt. But before I
glue it on, I'm going to stain all the wood pieces.
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Staining
The color of this stain is the same as I used on my daughters last
project. This way they should match each other. While this is drying,
I'm going to work on the metal pieces again.
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Working With Chemicals
I'm going to use this gun bluing on all the metal pieces that I made.
This is a simple process, as long as you prep the metal correctly and
follow the directions.
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Here are some of the metal pieces along with some hardware. However, I
won't be using the bluing on any of the black or brass pieces below.
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Here is my laboratory and now it's time to get to work.
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