Hey everyone and welcome to BFX, the show that gives you cheap solutions for your special effects challenges. This week, we are building prop furniture.
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This week, we are tackling one of our most requested projects ever.
Sorry guys but I am not talking about haylo armor.
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I am talking about collapsible prop furniture and it was requested by Kevin AZ, Commando42, Kirk, L.Y.H.O. Productions, Whitennerdy 2dmax, Kirk Myers, Faris P, The G man, Bar2692, David Pascroo, Hejhog101, Ampeg 0, Kicky G, Dilbot23, Tinokiev, and NinjaJeff. (Sigh) Okay, I just pin the whale.
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Card board, scrap wood, duct tape, spray blue, and card board tubes.
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I am going to show a make a chair and two tier end table. The chair starts with super thin fiber board I found then cut into a seat and back rest.
To brace these pieces, I cut some card board and spray glued it in the place. To create the legs, I cut strips of card board into long trapezoids.
If you glue four of these together, it makes a decently strong chair leg. Four legs with four strips of card board per leg make 16 pieces, so start cutting.
I made the front leg 17” tall on the back 21. This way I can notch the back legs at 17” and they will provide support for the rest of the chair.
After I test it, I realize I needed some additional bracing. So I added some narrow scrap wood between the front and back legs.
Use duct tape liberally to attached your legs and add a paint job and you are done.
The end table is super easy, grab four poster shipping tubes in some card board or scrap wood that you have cut into equal squares. Cut your tube at about 18” and stock everything like so.
Use hot glue sparingly to put everything together. You do not want to be too strong? Then, give it a spiffy paint job, (ping) you are done.
Like all my builds, this one has a sense of improvisation but there is a very important rule to maintain when building prop furniture and that is never put anything potentially dangerous inside that furniture.
Before you add every piece, ask yourself, would I want to fall on this? Is it too pointy? Is it really hard or sharp?
For example, I was going to put in this little metal L brackets to support the back piece of the chair and then I figure it out might, you know, can go right through and my actor might be a little upset if his back side was punctured with the one inch piece of metal.
I am very pleased to announce that this week’s test film was a guest directed by Anthony Carboni and John Rivera of Evil Primate and features (laughs) a real actress. (Ping) not just -- as dumb guys.
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