Guy Builds DIY Console Table With Steel Base

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This guy built a gorgeous console table with a welded steel base. He began by joining three wooden planks using glue, creating a solid tabletop, and polishing it. Next, he trimmed some steel beams at an angle, sanded them, and welded them to a flat steel plate. Once the base was ready, he spray-painted it brown, attached it to the tabletop using screws, and finished his DIY project.  “The underlying music rights are not available for license. For use of the video with the track(s) contained therein, please contact the music publisher(s) or relevant rightsholder(s).”

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00:00I'm making a console table.

00:04The tabletop will be alder and the base is welded steel.

00:15I started by cutting these boards to a rough length and then filled in a couple of knots

00:30and some checks that were in these boards.

01:15Here's a couple of idiots in my shop trying to choose the order to put these boards in

01:39for glue-up.

02:09To get a little extra thickness on the tabletop, I'm making two panels.

02:38One in eight-quarter and one in four-quarter.

07:08I added a piece of plywood to the table saw fence and raised it up a little bit.

07:14This allowed me to reference the eight-quarter panel against that fence and cut the other

07:20side flush.

07:45I wanted to cut a bevel on the bottom side of this table, so I cut it so that the bevel

07:50started right where the seam was between the two panels, hopefully hiding that seam.

10:06Richard, over at 42Fab here in Oklahoma City, cut out these plates for me on his plasma

10:35CNC.

11:00Now there may have been a better way for me to do this, but this is what I came up with.

11:03I needed to weld these legs onto this lower plate from underneath.

11:10I didn't want to have any welds showing on top.

11:13So I needed a jig to hold them at 90 degrees to the base, and this is what I came up with.

11:19A little clunky, but it seemed to work okay.

13:40So this second panel serves a couple of purposes.

13:52It adds some weight to the base of this table to help keep it more stable.

13:58And I also wanted the top plate that you see when you're looking at the table to be raised

14:03up off the floor to have a small reveal underneath it.

14:07So this second plate is cut an inch smaller in both directions, and now is plug welded

14:15to the bottom of the top plate.

15:01So that's it.

15:24I really like how this table turned out.

15:25I struggled with the color for the base for a little while.

15:29Settled on a dark brown, and I think it looks really nice.

15:33Please subscribe if you care to, and we'll see you on the next one.

15:36Thanks.

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