ROADRUNNER WEEK, DAY FIVE: EYEBOLTS
The last step before powder-coating: attaching the eyebolts to the base so the chairs can be hung, upside-down, for coating and baking. A strange process, powder-coating: a fine pigmented powder is applied electrostatically to most anything that can hold a charge (including wood, if the humidity is right—sadly Denver is too dry) and then the piece is wheeled into an industrial oven and baked. The process is VOC-free (or nearly anyway) and the finish is lovely and hard-wearing.