Industrial Strength Desk Tables
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 11:48AM A friend of mine was looking to refit his office with some tables that looked and felt more 'industrial'. He wanted to use heavy tube steel to make the tables, leaving the fairly heavy weld seams as part of the decoration.
The project was to make fourteen tables in two different sizes. I decided on mitred corners so that no part of the inside of the tube would be exposed to the air. I used a wire brush to burnish the exterior surfaces of the tables, and rigged up some bolts on the bottom of the legs for leveling feet. My friend went on to place reclaimed and refinished Douglas Fir planks for the desktop surface. The end result made a really nice contrast between the brushed steel finish and the Douglas Fir. Below is the prototype before it got its finished desktop.
