Several readers have reported difficulty laying out the leather seat for the folding stool in the book “Campaign Furniture.” My method for laying it out is unsophisticated. The recipe includes:
1. My butt
2. A stick
3. A nail
4. A can of mushroom soup.
The video shows how I did it. I hope it helps.
— Christopher Schwarz
What brand and what size can of mushroom soup?
…regular or low-sodium?
How high should the lay-out bench be?
FYI, Getting a video unavailable message.
Campbell’s 10-3/4 oz can of low sodium cream of mushroom soup gives just the right radius for the ends of the leather seat. You may get different results if you use regular soup not the low sodium as your blood pressure will be way up if you screw up the cut.
Based on the details people want to know about the soup, for instance, you may want to change you list to “your butt.”
Personally, I’d rather use a beer can. Who wants to eat cream of mushroom soup?
IPS. India Pale Soup. Yum.
Excellent point!
The “stupidest” way to lay out an equilateral triangle? Nonsense! The venerable way, as proven by Euclid himself, Book I, Proposition 1.
http://books.google.com/books?id=UhgPAAAAIAAJ&dq=euclid&pg=PA241#v=onepage&q&f=false
Proposition 1 is the same method.
What am I missing?
Exactly – it is not the stupidest method, it is the best method.
Reading that will cure anyone’s insomnia. Tried to read it 3 times and fell asleep each time. 🙂
Tomato and French Onion are also useful. http://rudemechanicalspress.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/3-31-soup.jpg. We should seek sponsorship from Campbell’s.
Everyone should send in pictures of their leather seat. Has anyone done fringes on the edge and a Harley patch in the middle and a beer can holder attached to one of the legs?
Nice video. I like the book, but I felt the graphic with the dimensions for the folding stool seat was missing one critical number – the length of the side of the equilateral triangle. All better now! Thanks.