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Testcase's Imposter of Pottery Barn's "Samantha"
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About three months back, I was looking for my next woodworking project after finishing some smaller projects like magazine racks for the family room and bathroom. Meanwhile, Peaches was looking through the Pottery Barn catalog and had come across this bench and shelf combination named the "Samanatha Collection". She showed it to me:
Now... if you had had the foresight to spot my sneakiness and clicked on that pic above, then it should have taken you to the product page for that thing at Pottery Barn's website and you would be ruining my great buildup to the punchline to this which I am about (INHALE) to reveal right now except I am taking a quick moment to rebuke you for your sneakiness if you had demonstrated said sneakiness in the above mentioned example.
*rebuke*
OK. NOW, you should click the pic above and take a moment to scan the prices listed for that sucker... Go ahead. Take a look. I'll wait. *hums*. Back? OK. Yeah. FIVE HUNDRED BONES! AMERICAN! Yeah, I know! Screw dat noise! That's when inspiration hit me. I'll just build that sucker myself! Yeah! Rock! Rock on!
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With a glimmer of an idea and an abundance of power tools, I sat down in front of my Powerbook and started drafting the plans from carefully studying pictures of the Pottery Barn originals and looking over the specifications on the information page.
Then I threw all that away, drank heavily, and started cursing the day I had ever picked up a hammer and nailed two boards together to make a plane that I would play with in the driveway while OMC pointed and laughed and stubbed cigarettes out in my head... the trauma.. the trauma... Why me, God, WHYYYY MEEE?!?!?
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| Then I remembered that I was just drawing up plans for the Samantha and not acting in an episode of CSI: Zion Curtain. I had some pretty good plans. It had numbers, lines, and stuff. It looked convincing. Peaches gave it her seal of approval and we were off to Lowe's to buy some wood. Cost of wood for project? Two sheets of 4' x 8' birch plywood and a plank of oak was roughly about $100 bucks. In the end, the whole thing cost about $170. And some blood. Blood for the Blood God! FOR CHAOS! DO YOU HEAR THE VOI-*cough*. Sorry. My bad. Been reading too many Warhammer books lately.
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Over the next three months, on free weekends and some evenings, I started banging this baby together.... Click the photo below to go to the gallery of pics snapped during the construction and to see the finished product.
"OH GOD! MY THUMB! MY THUMB!"
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