Love the plant stand - great idea. I got my wife a bunch of terra cotta pots cheap and she's been replicating a lot her plants from cuttings and looking for more places to put them. I have a variety of short 10/4 slabs of red oak I can't think of much to do with and that kind of thing is perfect. I bend most of my own steel flat bar legs so would be easy to knock some out like that. I also got a bunch of heavy cast iron frames at the metal recycling yard I haven't found a lot of uses for, they weigh 33-35 lbs apiece so not a practical pair of legs for any of my pieces for sale but good for some house projects. I built this printer stand out of hackberry with one pair. That plant stand gives me the idea of instead of using a single slab bookended in the frames, use 2 or 3 longer pieces 2.5 x 5 or 2.5 x8 with a space between them. And maybe another set at the bottom. Have SO many short blocks and slabs to make use of, and get too stuck in my single slab thinking sometimes rather than using multiple pieces to make up something.
Lol about the wives. Is that only 1/8" or 3/16" flat stock? I mostly use 1/4" for all my larger legs, and use a shop press bender. I didn't realize the bender kit/dies I bought for my shop press was designed for 1/8" at best so had to remake it into something that could bend 1/4 or 5/16" properly. I kept haplessly trying to force a bend in a vee die only meant for an 1/8" or sheet metal, bending my cheap shop press frame in the process. I kept rebuilding the press til I had built an indestructibly strong 20 ton press from scratch out of heavy rectangular tubing and 5/8" steel flat bar from the steel recycling yard. Only then did I finally learn my die was the whole problem, 1/4" doesn't take that much pressure to bend if you're not trying to force it into a ridiculously hard 90. The press bender setup is still limited in what I can do because longer narrower legs run into the press frame when I bend them. Had been looking for a cheap used Hossfeld bender for a long time but it's way more capability than I need. This is the best thing I've found for handling at least up to 3 x 1/4 and being able to easily replicate any angle you want, but pricier than I want to pay for it. The cheaper blue $200 versions by other manufacturers all seem to be junk quality from reviews. https://www.kakaindustrial.com/prod...MI6KvdrZDGgAMVnTStBh1yIQBZEAQYASABEgIN5fD_BwE
Not so much asking as comparing notes. I bend a little too much to hammer mine out in a vise, but not quite enough to invest too much money in it. Always curious how others do it. A lot of fabrication shops working with 1/8 to 1/4 use these little bench mounted benders I think. On the bucket list. Curiously if I buy from the company in Canada and have it shipped to Texas, it's at least $100 cheaper than buying from them in the US. I bought a Makita 1230 carbide tipped blade metal cutting saw a couple years ago that's one of the best small metal shop tools ever invented. Fastest cleanest metal cutting I've ever done. So if I get a fast and easy bender, about the most time anything will take for making flat bar legs is drilling the holes. One too many distractions lol, have enough on my plate just keeping up with all my woodworking and milling gear.
Same thing applies on this side of the border. Much cheaper to by in US and have it shipped. Sometimes half the price.
made this table once the timber dried out over 3 years. here is a few pics from the process.
no need to cretic the video. rakers are too low.
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I think peppermint gum or something similar. Looks a bit like this.
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