Tub finished.

Here are some shots of the mostly finished tub. I have a really cool idea about making the now refinished clawfoot shower capable as well.

Knocking the chrome off the fixtures took a couple hours but I love the brass look. The handles are not brass or are heavily plated, I still think they look ok, especially with the brass bolt shining in the center.The rest of the tub came out really good too, although I worry about the bondo given how forcefully the water comes out of that spigot.





On to my idea. We have a hookup ready for the shower head at the slanted side of the tub. I want to build a shower curtain that hangs above the tub (the ceiling is very high in all of our rooms, bathroom included) and that pulls down vertically. The bottom of the curtain will have a flange that matches the curved top rim of the tub and latches on with magnets. When done with the shower you can lift the magnets off and the whole curtain will retract back up to the ceiling. Need to work out how to have it so drips land in the tub while the curtain is up and drying and it might be difficult to have 2 degree of freedom folds of plastic around the curved part of the tub.