As this is my 100th post, I thought I'd make it an interesting one.
With the end on EvilDeadChainsaws.com, I've been thinking of what to do with the huge workshed
display sitting in my workshop. I settled on the idea of moving it into the front room of my house
to display my own cabin chainsaw, although having thought it through I came to the conclusion
that having an 8ft x 8ft x 4ft deep monolith to evil dead sitting next to my sofa might be a little
excessive. So I decided to convert the background into a much smaller display instead as a pet
project.
Below are some photos showing the process I went through & how I got on.
This is the stripped down original display. I took everything off, then dismantled the table
& base.
Until I was left with just the back wall. I then cut this back from about 8ft x 4ft down to
4ft x 3ft & touched up the paintwork.
I added some legs to it so it could be freestanding, although I might fix it up onto a wall
at some point instead. The legs are slightly excessive but at least there is no chance of
it falling over!
I wanted to keep as many of the little touches from the original as possible, the chains
& hooks being one. I really didn't want to have an overhead bar on which to hang the
lightbulb & chains so I had to put a little thought into this. The paintcan was then filled
with stones to counterweight the chain handing on the pully. The pully was made from
sheet plastic & some drainpipe glued together and painted up.
From the front you cannot see that the pully is attached to the paintcan and just looks
like its hanging in mid air.
The lightbulb wire is threaded through a piece of brass tubing and then down the back
of the display to a plug socket. The brass tube is fixed to the lid of the paintcan to
hold it in place and a piece of thread runs from the bottom of the electical cable to
the paintcan to hold the thick cable round at a 90 degree angle. The rope bundle on
top of the paintcan helps to hide the wire & tubing. You can see that the shelf has
started to droop somewhat, This is because it was only ever supported from the other
end and the wood had warped over time. I decided just to leave this as it was.
The fully dressed display. From the front the lightbulb & wire, as the pully, seem to
be suspended in mid air. I also carried over alot of the dressing from the old display
although I had to move some things around, and added alot of dust, dirt & rusty
bolts/nuts/screws/nails to complete the display.
The finished & lit display. The bulb & oil lamp are both lit.
A full length view of the lit display.
Well, with the workshed display now gone from my workshop, I just have one more order
for EDTM to get finished off and all the moulds and other related bit & pieces will be boxed
up & stored. EDC has been an interesting experience, having made chainsaws for Evil Dead:
The Musical, I don't think when I started up I could have expected to get any higher up the
ladder (especially with no ED4 on the horizon!). Still sorry to see it go, but I'm looking
forward to moving onto new things and I'm sure there'll be new evil dead projects from me
in the future.
