Todays Project - What did you do today?
Quick little project I started on last night for my wife.  When we were sitting watching a movie on New Year's Eve, she casually mentioned that she wished she had a small end table to put her drink on next to the love seat in the living room.  I don't know if it was an actual hint of just a passing thought.  Either way I am not going to risk it.

A couple of nights ago I scrounged through my metal pile and found a few 4' stick of .5" square tubing.  Yesterday I ran to Lowe's and grabbed a couple of 12" tile off their clearance pallet that I though matched our entry way and bathroom tile as close as possible.  Turns out it matches quite close and since they are going to be 10+ feet apart, they will work perfect.

I started with this last night after work.
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Using my new Baileigh BS-210M miter head horizontal bandsaw to 45 the ends.
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The gauge is pretty accurate.  When it is placed on 45-degrees....
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It cuts at 45-degrees.
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In one instance I was a tag long so I had to take a sliver off.
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And a sliver it was measuring .036" and dead nuts parallel all the way through the cut.
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All clamped together for tacking.
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One of the corner welds.
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I then was able to get a feel for my new Birmingham KB-45 vertical bandsaw and was able to see it's accuracy as well.
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I needed to cut some spacers to space the tile down into the frame so that the top will be flush with the .5" square tubing.  The tile measures .3" so I needed a spacer for each side (4 total) measuring .200".  I scribed a line and then manually cut them and was able to consistantly be about .010" over is all, just enough to kiss them on the belt sander and debur them.
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Four spacers cut, one already welded in the background to the underside of the framework.
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Close-up.
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And top frame perimeter completed with tile test fit.  
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Tonight I can get the legs done and I will frame out a lower section for another 12" tile closer to the floor.  My thinking is by having a heavy tile lower on the table it will make it not so top-heavy and be more stable.  Plus this way she can put a small planter or something decorative on the bottom shelf.

Stay tuned for the completed project.....

Mike.

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RE: Todays Project - by DanH - 08-14-2012, 10:13 PM
RE: Todays Project - by DaveH - 08-15-2012, 01:01 PM
RE: Todays Project - by doubleboost - 08-15-2012, 03:20 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 09-05-2012, 01:03 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 09-27-2012, 07:15 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 09-29-2012, 12:50 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 10-10-2012, 02:08 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 10-16-2012, 02:31 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-01-2012, 07:35 AM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-01-2012, 04:16 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-02-2012, 08:50 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-03-2012, 07:57 AM
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 01-10-2013, 07:25 AM
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