countryroad82
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As some of you guys 'n gals may remember I have a little one on the way. So I decided to see if my old high chair still was at my Moms house.
No I'm not old enough that I sat in this thing when it was new. It was originally bought by one of my aunts in '54 for her son and was passed through the family until it wound up with me in '82, then my nieces and nephews when they came to Grandmas. As you can see it got moved to a damp, muggy shed and time wasn't too nice to it. I like old junk and my wife loves stuff like this so I decided I would surprise her with this forlorn heirloom. So I tore it down.
Then it got blasted in my cabinet.
One of the legs had gotten a bad case of the rust worms. So I found a chunk of tubing in my scrap pile of the same diameterish and made a quickie repair.
Then it was time to give the main body parts a shot of etch primer, sealer, and finally some thinned Rustoleum Sunrise Red and gloss white. The legs got a heavy coat of 2K high build urethane primer to smooth out the pits, they're not perfect but I like to leave character in stuff I know is going to get used.
If you look in the last pic there you will notice I have found a use for those extra long screwdrivers that people get me from the Dollar Store for a buck...... At least I've found a use for them, it ***** as a screwdriver lol!!! The legs had to cure for a little while and while I would have loved to have sent them out to be rechromed, this cat just couldn't bring himself to spend that. I thought about powdercoat but decided against it because I hate projects getting held up due to me being at someone else's mercy. So I reached in the paint cabinet and custom mixed a silver with a few pieces of leftover bright silvers and this is what I came up with.
Not horrible. It looks like unpolished aluminum..... I meant to do that..... Yeah. That's what I'll tell people anyway lol. And here's the finished product ready for my offspring to whack, smack, spit up, puke, and whatever else she dishes out to this thing. I reupholstered the seat quicklike and it has a couple wrinkles but it'll suffice I think.
Well thanks for looking!!!
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No I'm not old enough that I sat in this thing when it was new. It was originally bought by one of my aunts in '54 for her son and was passed through the family until it wound up with me in '82, then my nieces and nephews when they came to Grandmas. As you can see it got moved to a damp, muggy shed and time wasn't too nice to it. I like old junk and my wife loves stuff like this so I decided I would surprise her with this forlorn heirloom. So I tore it down.
Then it got blasted in my cabinet.
One of the legs had gotten a bad case of the rust worms. So I found a chunk of tubing in my scrap pile of the same diameterish and made a quickie repair.
Then it was time to give the main body parts a shot of etch primer, sealer, and finally some thinned Rustoleum Sunrise Red and gloss white. The legs got a heavy coat of 2K high build urethane primer to smooth out the pits, they're not perfect but I like to leave character in stuff I know is going to get used.
If you look in the last pic there you will notice I have found a use for those extra long screwdrivers that people get me from the Dollar Store for a buck...... At least I've found a use for them, it ***** as a screwdriver lol!!! The legs had to cure for a little while and while I would have loved to have sent them out to be rechromed, this cat just couldn't bring himself to spend that. I thought about powdercoat but decided against it because I hate projects getting held up due to me being at someone else's mercy. So I reached in the paint cabinet and custom mixed a silver with a few pieces of leftover bright silvers and this is what I came up with.
Not horrible. It looks like unpolished aluminum..... I meant to do that..... Yeah. That's what I'll tell people anyway lol. And here's the finished product ready for my offspring to whack, smack, spit up, puke, and whatever else she dishes out to this thing. I reupholstered the seat quicklike and it has a couple wrinkles but it'll suffice I think.
Well thanks for looking!!!
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Lol! I might as well have been raised outside because as a kid I pretty much only came into the house to eat and sleep!