All right just cut this board down and the project is finished.
Hey man how are you doing? Yeah you know what the bandsaw is going great but I've got a
problem with the wall. You know what I want to really make a bandsaw stand.
Can we do that? Excellent excellent but you know what I
want to learn something while I do this you think you could show me how to weld
yeah excellent tell you what how about I come over I'll bring the bandsaw see
what we can do. Alright no problem see you soon.
okay so here we are I've got to be shout out to Steve C down at trigger engineering has really taught me
everything I needed to know about metal work and we started right here which was
designing a bandsaw stand for a bandsaw that I was able to pick up totally
inspired after my trip to meet Jimmy Diresta I realized I had to have a band
saw in my life so basically as he saw banjo said on a table didn't really work
well and Steve was generous enough to offer to teach me how to weld but we
ever started the beginning you can see there I started with stick welding or
arc welding. Basically Steve would not teach me how to go straight to the
electric glue gun or a MIG welder you see here he's actually showing me how to
put the welds together the beads together drag them through and then I
was off to cutting the material and one of the beautiful things about the
relationship I have with Steve is that he would let allow me to actually use a workshop
alone so here I am using a drop metal bandsaw that thing became one of the
tools that I absolutely loved because it allowed me to cut precision
all this bandsaw stand was made out of scraps which again was very
generous Steve allowed me to go and use all the scrap bin
Here I am laying them all out I kind of want to get a little artistic on this so
I'm really kind of happy the way we had happened because it's video taking a
long time to actually get it all working this way you see all the parts that I
needed and then after the drilling machine to drill all the holes that I
need it and really though this project actually took about two days which I was
actually learning and as I went along or park welding just try and get those arcs
going kind of laying them up I don't show you here but the first couple of
times that I did this no work slag in the actual world and being the great
teacher that Steve is he actually made me go with grinder grind those welds all
the way out and do them all over again kind of trying to get a bit of a pacing
here with the video but it's actually really easy to just go through this
process and actually learn a skill that is it's so intricate while arc welders
are available all around the world there's a lot of things you've got to
keep in mind when you're welding so you need to make sure the beads go down
smoothly that you're not getting any other swag in I was amazed at the idea
that you could take a hammer and hit the weld not the slag off and you could ever
that clean bead that's the only time you actually realize whether or not you've
done the operation correctly unlocked it so you know it's a it's a really
interesting skill something I never thought I'd really be able to have the
opportunity to learn so it's really really gracious and really thankful for
being able to do this and here you can Steve showing me how to line up
everything so that I can get the top of this stand together kind of looks a lot
easier than it is so one of the things that I learned after watching so many
making videos on YouTube it's love boy when you watch it this way it just seems
like you're knocking it off really easy but when you get into the actual process
itself it actually takes quite a bit of time and add a lot of skill
love the skill to make it look like that easy here we go I'm kind of pissed on my
ii am really happy that i've made part of a built-in Here I am taking some
wheels that we were able to find and repurpose the whole idea with my head
was to make them put up on these wheels move it around and drop it on the front
end again I am just kind of welding rods in place and I'm gonna be honest with
you abend super happy at this point I've actually build something that's
freestanding this is the bandsaw it's not actually my
bandsaw but another Bansal used to cannibalize to fix the bandsaw that I
had picked up and spray keep spraying this office middle work so it all looks
nice and even there wasn't even a listen to that
and again Steve was kind enough to show me exactly how to spray in the right way
using some techniques that he hooked up with us doing some bodywork clean the
wheels on now again this was a really fun project because we used everything
that was on hand clean these wheels these shots were kind of interesting I
just started off and I had a very small GoPro session and I actually put in my
mouth to try and get that the first person
pick up some wood for the top and all of those do everything again really time to
see to a madea anything everything they had he had in his store to this project
even at this party he expect me the right way the drill you can see some of
the some of the times when I was drilling stuff it actually works out
that I'm on an angle it is so nice to have someone actually
point out and be things to you when you're actually doing them we do them
instinctively and you know sometimes you don't realize what it is that you're
doing wrong so that Detroit that but shelves in the top now to get a quick
stand I think I missed a step here where I
showed we have to put some stain on it and then lock it all down here I
infected my workshop with the working bandsaw just lining it up
everything's been pre-drilled so just putting in some bolts to put it into
place and it's a great feeling when you're able to do that later that
picking up and actually get it all working there's one of the beautiful
things I like about being the maker is fishing those projects and actually
seeing can I only kind of tell you and here's the idea
wheel it directly against the wall when I for storage in one plane when I need
it all I'm cutting some peak timba I can actually pull it away from the wall and
to this day this is exactly where this bad soul lives it's actually become
these shelves full of gear now so every time I try to move it out it will slides
out so I I would love to put them backing onto it
but this Bansal has it caught me out of trouble a lot that's it I hope you
enjoyed its kind of look back on this throwback Thursday and I'll see you guys
real soon with my next project
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