The Time Machine Project-Time Machine Build -Chair

Building a Time Machine
The Base Part 1	The Chair Part 2	The Console Part 3
The Dish Part 4	The Feet Part 5	The Engine Housing Part 6
	The Rails Part 7

Building a Time Machine The Chair

The chair used in the original machine was a 1901 Beringhaus barber chair. There's more about this else ware on my site. On this build I started with the same chair I had built for my first machine. When the museum that had commissioned me to build their machine went out of business they sold the machine to Tony Baxter, one of the heads at Disney. He purchased a real Berninghaus chair and replaced the one I had built and returned this chair to me. When I built my second machine I also used this chair but added the arm rests cast from an original set. Later I acquired another Berninghaus chair and replaced mine with the Berninghaus. When I sold the second machine it went without the chair as the buyer had acquired his own and didn't want the one already in the machine.

On the original chair, the original head rest was replaced with the foot rest. I didn't like the head rest I had originally done, the proportions were off too much so I constructed a new one. My client also wants the machine to play the audio from the film trailer so I'm incorporating a speaker in the head rest, the large round hole.

Parts complete and stained.	Assembled before upholstery.	The foot rest on my donor chair ( will be used on my machine) was la bled The Antiseptic, other chairs I've seen where Hercules and Climax. All are nearly identical.

I made a mold of the plate, ran a casting in urethane resin, sanded off The Antiseptic and added the year 1899.	Fitting the plate on the head rest and tested the audio circuit.	Prior to upholstery.

Head rest upholstered and attached to the chair, the side rosettes are attached also.	While the chair was awaiting repurposing, two of the side carvings were lost so I remade them. Carved from foam, sealed and stained and attached to the chair frame.
More to come...