We found a used 70″ x 30″ butcher block tabletop for free on Craigslist and figured that the industrial black cast iron pipe aesthetic might just work for a table base.
We traveled to our local (giant) hardware store and bought:
1 x 48″ long 3/4″ black pipe
4 x 18″ long 3/4″ black pipe
8 x 8″ [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Metalwork’
June 23, 2010
DIY Scavenged Butcher Block Tabletop on Cast Iron Pipe Base
Filed under DIY, Metalwork, Wood
Tags: Butcher Block Tabletop, Cast Iron Pipe Base, DIY, Drainage Pipe, Recycled, Reused
June 12, 2010
Temperature surfing the Gaggia Classic & the Hario Mini Mill Slim
Bought some Gimme! Leftist Espresso blend recently when we were visiting friends in NYC dropping off a nuptial related coffee making apparatus type gift. & Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been enjoying the Chestnut Hill Coffee Company’s espresso offerings of late & we actually rode bicyclettes all the way up that gosh darn Chestnut Hill [...]
March 23, 2009
Metal Shop and Pop: Sheet Steel and You
So I went down to NC for a couple of days to build a welding table with my Dad. It turned out pretty nicely all things considered. We needed more practice on our MIG welds, but constructing a 4×4 foot table proved to be good exercise. We added a small 26 inch long extension off [...]
Filed under DIY, Mark, Metalwork, New York, Travel
Tags: "Let's do this shit", Cutting Table, Fabrication, Mark, Metal, MIG, NC, Pop, Production, Sheet Steel, Welding
