Reconstruire une malle .

hello and welcome to this new video we are often asked how to learn how to make a trunk so I made this video to show you how to learn how to make a trunk and the best solution is to start by getting an old trunk in the middle of all that and to do what I jokingly call reverse engineering which is that basically I take an old, very damaged trunk of very average quality where in fact there are a lot of things wrong but the trunk is complete with these parts the wooden structure is in good condition as you can see it is a popular trunk and so I will show you how from a trunk like this of very average quality the brackets for example are in simple metal that I don't want the lates are all rotten painted in fact and so I'm going to show you how to go from that to that and therefore actually transform your trunk and rebuild the trunk and so the first thing to do is to dismantle the 'set of all the elements and that's very long so there are no rules we could start by dismantling the cover or start by dismantling the bottom finally there are there are no particular rules I'm attacking with this which is the most comfortable for me so contrary to our usual this video is going to be quite long since I decided to leave you a large part of the asmr-style dismantling and therefore it allows you to see uh the time it takes knowing that for example the dismantling here I filmed uh uh about uh 3 hours and I accelerate the video 20 times so you can have it in 2 3 minutes or in 5 minutes so the aim of the game here I actually use a neck puller uh of an upholsterer and the aim of the game is to go under the head of the nail, raise it slightly and finish with pincers the parity of the dentant trunk makers that you can see on all the trunks is that when he bends a nail inside the trunk in a corner all the nails of the slat are always turned in the same way which will allow you in fact once you have understood the direction of rotation of the first nail of the slat to be able to dismantle the 'set all the nails quite easily so traditionally I collect all the lates and I reassemble them afterwards here in fact we chose to do otherwise because the lates are really of poor quality it is in fact a bread wood so it's is not at all as it should be and this bread wood was painted that basically it's paint which gives this dark side and and that's really not beautiful so we decided to get rid of wooden parts that we keep if one day we need to make a repair, even the brackets are made of steel made of sheet steel we will keep them to be able to restore parts that we might have to restore for customers who has a trunk like that but I'm not going to reassemble them I'm going to reassemble much more beautiful luxury eclairs so why am I doing that quite simply because the time spent and the labor [Music] necessary for the restoration of a piece like that which initially does not have much value eh it is not a nice piece these pieces are not of very high quality apart from the locks so redo a trunk like that if it is to put back original products which are chip uh it's not uh it's really not great so while I'm at it I'm going to take the opportunity to improve this background and make something much more beautiful than what it would have been than what it has was originally obviously we could completely restore exactly as originally and therefore keep the sheet metal brackets keep the wooden slats a little rotten and above all rectangular we could keep absolutely everything that would be a bad thing for a customer by example who would ask me for a restoration of his grandfather's evil and who would like us to re-canvas it and we would redo absolutely everything so in the video I have you will see I show you how I restore all the pieces of wood slats and angles in metal and even if I don't reuse them and so obviously I could have used them and that's why when I dismantle I'm very careful not to damage the angles and I dismantle each little nail in order to reuse them if necessary another advantage of this model in this case is I found the keys so I can restore the locks with function keys which is always nice so it's a part that I have always liked a lot because it allows us to see how in the 30s the manufacturing factories of Mel uh worked we see immediately that it is a popular production at a reduced cost because there is no corner in the bottom of the trunk uh everything is pre-cut the corners were pre-cut, in fact we chose not to put the metal corni back on because in fact by looking at them we realized that at the time they had gone so quickly that there was no a nail that is straight which is quite amusing since today we consider that it would be a really bad quality to put nails that are not straight at the time he didn't bother at all with this kind of chos and so most of the nails on the angles are really crooked so it was done quickly and so we are going to correct in fact this little birth error by using, as you will see later, very clean lososin and we will keep the angles to repair other things so the aim of the game is to avoid damaging the wood because the wood is a type of wood like bending something a bit like that which makes about 10 mm thick so it's quite fragile and quite thin so we damage it as little as possible to do as little repair as possible since obviously we're going to have to repair all the holes you can imagine there are some tens tens it's about one nail per centimeter the trunk is 50 cm high so you can calculate well there are 100 nails per side 50 on one side 50 on the other fu and lid together so that's about 400 nails to remove just on the corners so basically it's a job when you're not used to doing it and you don't know the things at all it will normally take a short day once everything is done disassembled I am going to clean all the metal parts with a brush so the angles the brackets the hinges the nails there the same I suggest and I advise you to wear gloves I have been doing this for years so I have a little used to it but for those who are not used to it, it is better to wear gloves, especially when passing a metal brush over the brush bump on the left, so here I have chosen to keep the edge which we are going to reuse on the on bad but I brush the inside and the outside to be sure to remove all the rust since afterwards I will treat the metal to prevent there being any recurrence of rust in the future eh the aim of the game is It's still about doing something that lasts once everything is brushed I 'm going to polish all the parts in Léon so the locks all the parts then we move on to the repairs so I'm going to repair all the bases of the wood every holes I will treat if necessary there in this case I pass a wood paste in all the small holes which may have been made by the small nails of angle iron it is very light so but you brush all of the small holes and then it will be sanded it will be cleaned but it allows us to start again on a good basis on something which is clean which is flat on which we can easily put glue and canvas without there being any relief finally the support must be healthy to do a clean job so in the video it's not necessarily in order but this part for example I did it before the metal and while it was drying I was able to do the metal and then treat the metal so here I go inside the metal angles to protect them and keep them in the long term from the rustol to be sure that there is no problem once the F is completely sanded and ready well I transfer the baby to brand meanwhile I prepare the spare parts which will be used in the trunk I prepare the slats which go on top I cut them I kiss them I prepare them and he will start to do a re-coating complete so there in fact to do this we use a canvas any canvas in fact it does not matter for covering since we are going to recoat it as it was done in the old way it is that we are going to completely recoat the canvas so it will coat I will give you the details on our methodology for making coated canvas to remanufacture it but basically it will start with layers of paint and then there are a few little extras and a few little secrets to redo a created canvas redo a canvas afterwards as it was done the old way but basically that's what we do so here before the sheathing that you are seeing of the lid Marc put a small cardboard all along the three sides of the lid this little idiot is essential since it is what will allow the lids to have a slight overhang in relation to the flow so that the rim comes over the lid and when we close the trunk we can close it if you don't put this little cardboard in any case that's how the trunk was designed eh uh if there was n't this little cardboard well when you add the edge all around the lid and you want to close your evil B it closes the more it gets stuck which seems logical al it's not necessarily easy to explain like that but it's obvious when you see the trunk so there well he does the sheathing and the padding of the exterior f then all the advantage of doing this on an old trunk is to have all the spare parts to have a model that exists to reproduce the existing one and so obviously if we manufactured the trunk it would be exactly the same thing in easier so once you know how to restore a part and rebuild it as we are doing in this video well making a trunk is much simpler, you can't see it in the video but here we chose to color our canvas with a brown which is Viton brown quite simply a brown a brown I don't know what the term is but it's the standard brown that you find on a canvas now we're going to move on after it's finished the whole thing preparation operations and well we will have to cut the angles there I must have made a mistake in the videos it is I did not put it in the right direction or he had not done the other side I I don't know anything basically to do all the layers plus all the little extras that we add to the canvas you have to count on a big day a little more even since in fact you have to do that in TR four layers CIN layers and so we let it dry we start again we do lots of other things in the meantime so once you have the lid on one side and the flow on the other side well we are going to attack the manufacturing the assembly strictly speaking to do this we selected from the stock of old losine so these are corners which are new from the period so they are full of dust they are all dirty there is really so we restore them first we restore 'first the angles by washing them then varnishing them and once they are ready well we will simply nail them and position them so to do this you have seen the mark of breaking its angles because an angle is not a right angle if it is a right angle it would be very milky and there in this case it yields cooking glue so classic neoprè because it is much faster it allows you to glue to go and do something else to come back to his work of installing and in fact the corner directly here he is going to place his angle all the way along the sides it is a long tedious but fun job and you see the importance of having properly filled all the holes in the wood he attacks the replacement of the original squares of the lates sorry from the original bottom they were previously sanded restored and varnished and the first modification compared to the origin we decided to install corners in solid Léon pretty corners that I I had them made specially for our stock so they are quite imposing corners which have the ability to be placed in the corner of the bottom which are perfectly flat which will allow it to be done if necessary so here it is PL nails he twists them and he twists them rests now it rests the perimeter [Music] very important to be well in front and then the brackets which come to protect so it is practical to have small pliers like our little green pliers there because it makes a very hand and that allows you to wedge to be able to position which is not easy alone in this case Mar has a lot of experience and a great habit so he manages to do it alone that most of the time we do it by cutting his angles once the lozine is placed in order to correctly position his corner he will reposition his hinges so here the same we made the choice not to put the hinges under the canvas but we could have put the hinges under canvas because the hinges that we chose are self-locking hinges which in fact allow the trunk to remain open green once fixed unlike the original hinges which were under the canvas and which were hinges which in fact required a strap inside there the trunk holds end without being obliged to hold anything so once the perimeter is installed the hinges are installed we will reposition the locks there is always a little adjustment it is always the part a little delicateis that it is really to the millimeter and we never have the certainty of being exactly to the millimeter in the previous location there is the thickness of the canvas there is the movement of the wood which means that we may need to adjust a little bit so we have adjusted so that the locks are well made parallel to that I made the leather cuffs because the original metal cuffs were really ugly and so we put the cuffs we put the slats and the brackets then most of the time the slats are separated by 10 11 cm this is the most common case and the nails have a proportional spacing this is you see there he has he drilled first the center and then he shifts so as to have a an ergonomics which goes well in connection with the nails which are on the metal perimeter of the lid then the same on the front side then some trunks have lates on the front side do not have any at the back others have them in two places there he takes his measurements of the top slats and he does the same thing on the front side and he will start again at the back always in a proportion when you only have one slat at the back for example in general is is in the middle of the lower part of the fu it is logical for a question of resistance the lates are massive and they were made in the workshop with wood recovered from the local Sirie which is called trend d 'The Alcians who are looking at us and so there he is going to do a sheathing a padding there the same it takes about half a day to do the complete work and it depends on the number of the angel that we want and depending on the size of the lid that we are going to padded to the lid of the trunk then obviously this original trunk would not have had such luxurious padded we chose to give it more luxury more luster and really give it something thing so that it makes an object that is even more qualitative than the original, you would have understood, so the entire work will have taken the two of us a little over a week while still doing other things with it since there are necessary drying times which force us to do other things in the meantime, here is the final result, the cost is relatively modest since the original trunk is available in cheap stores and then there are only the qu the corners the fabric and the latches to make and so I think it allows you to make a beautiful object here I thank you I hope you liked this video and will inspire you do not hesitate to consult our spare parts store to find all the nails all the necessary parts see you soon goodbye