The very first thing we did was bend and secure the first piece of wood, apply glue to it and to the back side of the next piece, add more glue to the other side and to the side of the third piece and then clamp the whole fucker down together. As illustrated by my unnecessary run-on sentence, this was an extremely stressful race against the clock.
But finally the beast was restrained!
Getting the wood ready was actually so unfortunate that we just called it quits for the day once it was done.
So Tuesday!
First things first we removed the wood from the jig. It held together rather well, but we added a few more staples with the pressurized gun for good measure. So then we went to see if the curves of the foam we'd carved matched with the wood. Failure struck again. When we removed the wood from its jig, the curve relaxed a bit. I didn't think it was a problem until we went to match it up with the foam. Biiiig difference. We attempted to reshape the foam, but it was just too time consuming. So then the plan changed completely.
First we attached two wood blocks to each side to give us something to screw the handle and strap on to.
And then...(insert dramatic music here)
SPRAY FOAM
MANY SPRAY FOAM
This solved all of our problems and should have been the first choice. But at least we learned something, right?
...right?
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