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Steve,

What magazine, which issue?

I'll buy one!

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Now I'm not even sure it is for a magazine, but they do want to enter the tables into some kind of furniture design competition, so as far as I know now, that's the reason they want them in so early. The amount of misinformation I get on most jobs is staggering!

Anyway, here's some more pictures on progress. We will have 2 tables done in time for the shoot, there just won't be any glass in them. The glass is still 2 weeks away.

The 1st picture shows the table frame all welded and castered. It's upside down on the table for this picture. The square tube legs and cross pieces are 3x3 x 3/16ths wall and the angle iron top frame is 2 1/2"x 3/16th wall. There is another piece of angle iron welded into the top frame, this is to hold the glass top. The inner supports are 3" x 1/4" flat bar stock. Because the space is so tight inside the frame there was no room for a weld bead, I opted to drill 1/2" holes into the smaller angle iron and weld through them into the larger angle iron. Sort of like a spot weld/ rivet. It works very well. The second picture shows this.

The 3rd picture is the table base right side up with the mortised out 3/4" MDF sheet in it's slot. Again, because space was so tight, I welded the frame into a "U" shape, slipped the MDF sheet inside it and then closed it off with the other end piece of angle iron. The finish was just clean the steel and lacquer it, so that's what we did. I wiped them down with lacquer thinner and then sprayed lacquer on them. Very easy finish!

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Here's some pictures of the almost finished table(s), sans glass. We still have to secure the doors in place so they won't vibrate out of their slots once the glass is in.

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You really do manage to get into some interesting projects. Nice work!
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