news from the metal shop

just like in the wood shop, sam is humming along in the metalshop, welding away. now that all the table bases above are finished and ready to ship, he's been working on other projects. click the photos to enlarge them ...
these are the, i don't know, 25? base shoes for a large railing project with a local builder in rupert. stairs and a deck around a pool house that's 80 ' long and 50' wide.
looks like 116' of it, without the stairs. gonna take a while ...
and then we have a new style 'blackened' shaker steel base. i really like it. it's kind of shiny, but not too shiny, kind of black, but not too black ... it's just a really nice complement to the claro walnut slab top.
a corner of the table top. more on that later ...

and then he fabricated the full size version of a steel table base shown in the model below ...
first make a 'U' and then add two 'Ls' and some 1/4 x 2 aprons.
trevor routed fitting jigs on the cnc which made the job a little easier. it was still fussier than it looks. mitered corners in 3" tubing ..
and then, after making the curved towel bar above ...
he use that concept to come up with a leg design for another client's table base. roll the 3/4 square stock and then give it a half twist to make the 's' shaped legs. pretty cool imho.
leveled and flattened all 8 legs and then
added the plates so it can sit outside on the grass ...
and then we met with a client about a hoist bar over his new barn loft ... that'll be coming up soon as it's been in the background for a while ...
and then, when i came home for lunch yesterday, i was surprised to find this object in my driveway. take a guess .... no, ok, i'll tell you ... it's for hauling your hounds in the back of your short bed toyota pickup. the bed is 63" and so is the unit above. it will have welded on open mesh sides, top and door, and it will be just like the dogs are riding in the back of your pickup, but legal. in vermont, technically, you can't just stick 'em in the back, (or strap them to the roof for your family vacation), but this'll be fine ... enough update for now....