Welding Tips and Tricks

I recently ran across some reclaimed Douglas Fur a few weeks back for a somewhat reasonable price. It came off a dam when the dam was torn down and supposedly is around 90 years old. I'm not much of a wood worker but I wanted to try my hand at building an industrial table. Here is what I've come up with so far...

a few more...

The base is tig welded with regular ER-70 but all the 'face' welds are silicon bronze.

That's going to be beautiful!

tungstendipper wrote:That's going to be beautiful!

Thank you!

Looking good, anxious to see how the metal finish turns out.

LtBadd wrote:Looking good, anxious to see how the metal finish turns out.

Yeah me too. I've watched all there YouTube videos and it seems like really cool stuff. Hopefully it turns out good.

I'm back on the dinning room tressel table today. I'm really happy with the way the stretcher turned out. I brought it inside to get an idea of how it will look. I'm leaning towards just clear coating it. What do you guys think?

Very nice. I have a large oak live edge slab, router planed, that at some point I need to build the table undercarriage for. I was thinking of something along the line of yours and now I see how good it looks. The "rivet" look is distinctive and I wondered if you epoxied on short carrage bolts in pre drilled holes or used something different?

Fantastic work. I not long finished a table for my Mother in Law, similar design but gloss black powder coating and an old door for the top.

Nice work Burls and Mick.
Mother in law hey?
If I was makin one for mine I would have used a dunny door.
What goes around comes around


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Lol, a dunny door gave me the idea. This one was second hand so it may well be one. No malice intended with mine though

The table is almost complete. I ended up sending the base out to be painted satin black.

Looks beautiful!!!
Can you explain that pink workbench?

awesome table
how did you fasten those breadboard ends?
hope they are not glued end to end or it will cause
cross grain issues.
craig

The pink tool bench is my 2 young daughters. I try to give them projects to do while I'm out working.

The breadboard ends are drawboard mortis a tenon joints.

Burley Industries wrote:The pink tool bench is my 2 young daughters. I try to give them projects to do while I'm out working.

The breadboard ends are drawboard mortis a tenon joints.

Pretty soon you need to show them how to weld.

The breadboard ends are drawboard mortis a tenon joints.

very very nice way to finish an end without glue!!
craig

Burley
how much off set did you use 1/16 or more?
i haven't done more of those in many years...
craig

C'mon now, for those of up here in this continent, ya gotta translate "Dunny Door"

ljdm1956 wrote:C'mon now, for those of up here in this continent, ya gotta translate "Dunny Door"

Protector of privacy for Loo, can, crapper, john or outhouse.

motox wrote:Burley
how much off set did you use 1/16 or more?
i haven't done more of those in many years...
craig

Correct. 1/16" offset for the oak dowels.

A few more of the finished shots. (Its also for sale just FYI)

You're a true craftsman. What a fine job. your finish work is impeccable!

Why are you selling such a beautiful table? Awesome job man....


Pete