everybody this is mr saw bladehead i got a really cool build that i'm going to be working on right
now my client wants some cool office furniture but this isn't your normal office furniture you're
going to go buy from a store and everything is all flimsy and you got to put all the stuff together
now i come from a second generation skilled trades where things were made to last forever
now he loves the industrial style i plan on making this thing industrial strength so i got a bunch
of different designs i'm going to go ahead and give my client see what he likes and i'm going to
combine all that stuff into something ultra badass and ultra strength now i drew up several designs
for my client to kind of pick and choose what he likes some of them that may not have fitted style
kind of like a really cool intricate bridge design i did one with more kind of scrap metal type of
aviator with rivets and hand hammering uh even kind of almost like a bank bolt type of thing so
he he kind of told me what he was liking he wanted something that was chunky with some i-beam so
rather than making a faux i-beam because i just i wanted this to be a serious piece i actually went
with this design right here and then i'll show you some of the of the builds of how i actually made
the other decorative intricate parts in between but what you see is i-beams right there those are
actual i-beams so what i'm going to be doing now is uh i'm actually making uh basically
faux base plates rather than having you know one inch thick or even a half inch thick plate i'm
doing a faux base for the i-beam structure so what i'm doing is i'm actually i have
here i have uh i think this is a 3 16 plate i'm going to be cutting out for the arches and then
i'm going to reinforce that with a one inch square tubing that's at the eighth inch thick
and then when i weld everything on up it's going to look like a one inch thick piece of uh steel
all right now i'm cutting these things just just to length for each side of the office table
cut my trim pieces off
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i'm cutting some one inch square tubing as well as some
two inch square tubing which is going to be used for some of the decorative [Applause] [Music]
pieces all right i got all my base plates material cut and now it's welding up of the framework
for each side of the office desk and i'm going to reinforce that with the top plate uh clamping all
that down so it doesn't flex even though it's a thicker material that still can flex clamp it all
that down well that all solid and then prep it for the i-beams that's going to be the main structures
for each desk and right here and these are decorative gussets they're obviously not
not structural whatsoever um purely for decorative these are a quarter-inch uh thick material [Music]
as you see once i get the i-beams on a 90-degree i will add the the gussets onto it
purely aesthetics but it definitely gives you that that strength and that girthiness to the build
go ahead and sand down that some of that surface rust but it's got some beautiful red patina
on it that when i go ahead and clear coat that those colors are just going to go ahead and pop
so i'm just going to prep this material i'm also even thinning down
the edge where i'm going to be welding so i get better penetration because i'm
going from an i-beam thickness which is roughly about a little bit less than a
quarter of an inch down to an eighth inch plate so i get proper penetration [Music]
right now i'm just going to go and weld those uh gussets onto
the i-beam i said i don't need to sand those down like i did with the i-beam
to the the base plate because they're purely aesthetics they're not structural
whatsoever now what this is going to be this is a decorative insert piece to the main
office desk now i'm making this out of 2x2 square tubing thin wall 16 gauge now this is the
flat bar it's two inches by quarter inch thick now this is going to get welded to the front
fascia and which this is going to get i'm actually going to be burning out the holes
for the all thread and this is going to get connected to not only the front but
that's also going to connect the left and right to the i-beams themselves
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all right so using a piece of flat bar as a straight edge i'm to who had cut my front
plate this is for the fascia of the office desk i cut that on out now the framework is the same
but just with two inch square tubing rather than one in square tubing so i've did a basic framework
just like the first base plate put the plate on top go ahead and stitch weld all that everything
being clamped on down so this way the actual plate doesn't warp as well as the framework themselves
i have a i think they're one inch nuts that are already been sanded and then just welded
on these are purely for decorative kind of give you that blacksmith rivet look [Music]
and moving on with more just decorative pieces and these are just welding
all the decorative nuts kind of give it that rivet look it's going to make everything pop and
actually make things a little bit more realistic like you would actually see actually on a piece
of i-beam now this is one of the the decorative inserts once again it's two inch square tubing
and i decided it needed a little bit something else to it so i decided to go ahead and
distress cut section out and then use expanded metal over top of it
as with a lot of my other builds i like a lot of layering i like different textures
and also not keeping the expanded metal uh in a vertical position tilting it diagonally once again
this gives it a bit more movement and it also gives it that kind of
industrial look that i'm going for [Music] now another way that i get additional texturing is
kind of my signature style is actually taking the welding process and the bad techniques and
giving me the textures that i want just kind of send that on down a little bit and then go
ahead and put that expanded metal on top at the diagonal weld that solid and it is ready to go
now here the once again this is for the side desk similar to the design but we're just going to go
and uh weld those all thread pieces once again purely decorative just help connect
both of these i-beams together similar build but this is the side desk to the main office desk
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now here's the main desk and this is those decorative pieces of those inserts i was
telling you about now i'm welding the all threads onto this connector piece
i'm going to go ahead and lift that on up a piece of 2x2 square tubing position it
weld it in place bam it's money [Music]
now this is the top framework and this is where the wood table top is going to go inserted into it
but i wanted a metal framework to base it around it to really
make the wood top pop and as well hey this is an industrial strength piece and this is how
it's going to go look and it's really going to set that wood off this is the side table
now i'm prepping for the connector pieces to the tabletop to actually insert and
slide into those connector pieces untied inside of each piece [Music]
now with these connector pieces these are actually levelers
for the table top themselves done with connector pieces mainly pipe and nuts and all thread
this is the side table i'm going to go ahead and do a setup level all those out tack them in place
square everything on up and then i can continue welding things solid here's the main desk [Music]
which i'll need to go ahead and i'm marking for my uh connector pieces level them out square it up
all right now everything's done just mainly kind of sanded some things down
get some of the look i'm going for prep and everything for clear coat and uh i'm actually
just using i'm using an additive called uh penetrol which is usually an additive you
throw into paint however i like the way that it goes over very heavy very clear
and here is the final design of industrial strength [Music]
that is a wrap for industrial strength who makes industrial furniture out of i-beams
this guy does right here this thing will last forever probably a nuclear holocaust hey
but that's that's how i build things and that's how things should be built you're going to build
the stuff to last make it look so so badass and i hope you enjoyed it so hit the like button hit
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