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Welding and Fabrication Table Top Thickness – 1/4″ vs 3/8″
Should you really pony up the cash to pay for an extra thick top on your already expensive welding / Fabrication table? No. Here’s why.
Accessories For Our Welding Tables
If you pick up one of our exceptional welding tables you may be wondering what to do with all of those fixturing holes! Well, this article will outline some of our favorite options. Clamping The holes on all of our tables are cut to accommodate “standard” tooling that is labeled as either 5/8″ or 16mm.Continue reading “Accessories For Our Welding Tables”
How to Keep A Welding Table From Rusting
We sell a lot of welding tables, and the two most common questions are: Well, we’ll tackle number two later, so for now let’s talk about how to care for steel tables that are exposed to the elements. Both before and after they get attacked with rust. WD-40 Is Your Best Friend Although everyone knowsContinue reading “How to Keep A Welding Table From Rusting”
Installing the Jeep Wrangler JL Accessory Mounting System
Installation guide for our Jeep Wrangler JL Unlimited Cargo and Accessory shelf system.
Welding Table Flatness – Why, and When It Matters
What Exactly Is Flat? One of the most misleading things in the welding table supply business is the way vendors intermix machine specifications while discussing welding table flatness, ignoring the difference between finished products and the machines they’re made on. So let’s clear things up. There are two primary types of welding tables being suppliedContinue reading “Welding Table Flatness – Why, and When It Matters”
Building the 42Fab GIANT Steel Chiminea
Normally we post about projects we design and fabricate on our own, but this time we’ve got to give a huge shout-out to Richard Day at 42Fab in Oklahoma City. Richard has a YouTube channel where he shares all sorts of projects, and when we saw his Giant Steel Chiminea project it was love atContinue reading “Building the 42Fab GIANT Steel Chiminea”
Breathing New Life into Old Picnic Tables
A little while back we had the opportunity to redesign and refurbish the old picnic tables at a local park. The old tables had a nice concrete base firmly planted in cement, but they had extremely weathered, rusty and downright dangerous expanded metal surfaces that were desperately in need of replacement! So we decided toContinue reading “Breathing New Life into Old Picnic Tables”
Fabricating a Custom Live Edge Table Support
Our friend and professional woodworker Kevin Tunis is always coming up with crazy ideas for beautiful wood tables, and occasionally they are so massive they could use a little extra support. We worked together to create a unique Texas-themed support for one of his custom projects. The wood legs for the table are plenty strongContinue reading “Fabricating a Custom Live Edge Table Support”
Turning the Johnson Service Group Logo into Wall Art!
We recently had the opportunity to create a beautiful piece of wall art from the Johnson Service Group logo for a new office location in Texas. The concept was to recreate their corporate logo as a 3D sign to hang in the reception area. This meant the logo first had to be re-created in aContinue reading “Turning the Johnson Service Group Logo into Wall Art!”
Building the Texas Elite Arched I-Beam Table Base
My buddy Kevin Tunis is a woodworker with a flare for making high-end custom tables with rare and massive wood slab tops. One such table is his Texas Elite which merges classical woodworking with custom metal fabrication for a table unlike anything you can get anywhere! Kevin loves to challenge convention, and the design ofContinue reading “Building the Texas Elite Arched I-Beam Table Base”
Custom Outdoor Texas Wall Art
Custom orders are always fun, because by their very nature each one is unique and that makes for a challenge. This one was no exception… Our client had a home with a small decorative brick pattern near the top of the front wall of the house, but the pattern was too small and they wereContinue reading “Custom Outdoor Texas Wall Art”
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