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| KenToad:
I like UncleT's suggestion of letting the feet dangle over the bar. Whatever you do, it sounds pretty interesting. :cheers: |
| Crowquill:
The idea of "stilts" makes me nervous. It's definitely possible, but you're going to have to find a decent diameter metal pipe to make it rigid enough. If it's mainly for kids to play with I'd go more for stability than looks. I'm guessing the design of this would make it top-heavy. You definitely don't want even a mini-cabinet tipping over on your kids. Idea 1: Do the 4-pipe thing. Paint the back two black and the front two yellow with socks. Idea 2: use a more traditional pedestal-like base and just paint on the legs. Idea 3: make a cabaret-style cab and just use Spongebob artwork. An alternative to this would be to build a scaled-down standard cabinet. Here's some bases that Merit has used for the Megatouches. Here's also a pic I took at an auction of a simpler base. That's the first one I'd seen.: |
| Dervacumen:
I like unclet's ides of having the legs hang over the table too, so I might look into this style. Easy to make with PVC and detachable as well. I think I was unclear about the orientation of my proposal however. I drew a fantastic picture illustrating my idea. You see the spongebob shape is really the sideart. So from each side you sould see spongebob. From the front, the bexel, CP, marquee, etc. would be assorted songebob themed artwork. The arrow points to the shoe you see from the spongebob figure as the right hand sideart. |
| bfauska:
That IS an excellent picture. ;D Because S-Bob's legs can't be at the front corners I think that you will be better off with the legs hanging down next to the table, any downward pressure on the CP and the cabinet would probably tip over easily. The idea of securing the legs to the cabinet and then to a base of some kind below the feet would also work as long as the legs were sturdy and well attached and the base came out as far as the front edge of the CP. It sounds like a cute project, be sure to keep us posted. |
| leapinlew:
I wouldn't even make feet. in fact, I would make it look like those yellow t-shirts you see. MarkVP hacked his cabinet to play this: Worth checking out. |
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