Meet Tin Victoria....

Well....Here She Is!

John's Masterpiece! This is a Wonderful, late 1860's, or Early 1870's Victorian Settee....Walnut...all Hand done....I bought her a few years back...completely stripped of all of her fabric...Her bones were Beautiful.... I told John, how wonderful she would be, covered in tin...{I save old sheets of tin, when I can find them...this tin, was part of an old Grain Bin Floor....} John is a Master, with metal....Every piece is hand cut....hand bent...with very primitive tools... he covered every inch, where fabric would have been...{even the original wood supports, below the arm rest...}then, with old Amana lumber, he created a slight bow, on the seat frame, so it was full...and able to set on....He used a liquid solder, on every seam, so there are no sharp edges.... Then...hand rubbed the tin...so She's smooth as a Baby's Butt! She's a Beauty!!! I'll get better images..... It was 110, outside, this afternoon, with the heat index...we weren't messing around....{these images don't begin to show how Gnarly this Piece is...} 

This truly is a Work of Art...

{click on image to enlarge...it has very cool detail...} 

When Brandon saw it...{house things} I thought his jaw hit the floor...he said he never thought he'd see a piece like this, in a garage, in Iowa...{He knows better....all the Coolest stuff, comes from Iowa....He's living proof!}

I have all sorts of Ideas...swirling in my head....for John's next Project....{and so do a few other folks, who have seen this one....oh dear...}

I have no idea how to price a piece like this...he says, sell it...bills to pay....

The back is all tin covered as well...he still has to solder the seams.... I promised an image, today...so...I'll have a better one, when it's all done...

It is John's Birthday, today... and he spent it...working in a HOT Shop...on Old, Tin Victoria...

What a Man!

{here he is with Scout....standing at the water trough...I gave Scout a bath, this afternoon....he was dripping with sweat....Scout just stood there...as I took buckets of cool water... and slowly ran them over his neck, and back and rump...then just kept brushing him....John was splashing him, too... Then, Scout would go roll in the dirt...then come back for more....it was a hot...hot...day....}

{I snapped this image, in the breeze way, of our house...at 6:30, this eve....WHEW!}