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Beautiful shop! You've done well for yourself young man! I own and operate (for over five decades) a four thousand square foot ground level custom wood & metal fabrication shop with another 2,800 sq. ft. upper level (my shop has a 28' ceiling height so I went with a 10' upper level). I'm thinking now (at 73 years old) of downsizing to about 1,000 sq. ft on the ground floor for a much smaller shop and renting out the rest of the building. Never wishing to retire, but would like to always have a smaller shop to fabricate and build projects. Just a nightmare trying to figure out which machines & tooling to keep. So hard to downsize over 6K of floorspace with a million dollars worth of machinery/tooling and fit the essentials in 1/6 the size shop. Sigh. But - you inspire me with what you've done, so glad I came across your channel - I initially viewed and commented on your rolling stool video! Thanks, mikey🙂

Overall an extremely nice project! I agree with all the other comments (t-nuts wrong side, larger round metal plate, alignment plate welded in and add a foot rest hoop. I'd add to the list - cap nuts for the casters - a cosmetic improvement for sure. For myself I'd also prefer spoked wheel casters - I feel they'd look much cooler given your excellent plasma cut legs! All just productive friendly advice - not trying in any way to distract from a very interesting and inspiring build! I commend you and wish now to duplicate your ideas, just expanding on them a bit. You've gained a subscriber and a like! Thanks - on to check out your channel now. 😃

Awesome

This is a great shop tour, I dream of making something like that one day. Right now I am building house with 900 square feet garage/workshop and looking for inspirations, and yours is a great one. I have two questions if I may - could you reveal the cost of the welding table (with/without accessories)? Also, how you approach rust protection on your projects? Rattlespray / spraygun? I am wondering if homemade powder coating is achievable and would it be worth it. Thanks for the video, your shop is wonderful!

Hello where did vous buy your welding table? Nice workshop!

Very pleasant to watch a shop tour video where the guy making it ISN"T waving his hands around as if he were directing traffic , ( very distracting and annoying ) ... Anyway , good job and nice setup ...

the wooden nut inserts will work their way out. the seat will eventually fall out. I'd drill the hole all the way through the wood and place them on the other side. That way they will never work their way out.

Thanks so much for this. I plan on getting into welding for some projects and this helps me understand what I may need or what is possible.

good work sir!

I have that same Vulcan welding cart. I can't believe I never thought of orienting two welders side by side across the SHORT way! I only saw side by side longways, so I had my MIG welder where its access door opened towards the tanks. Turning it 90 degrees like you have it so the access hatch opens to the same side as the cabinet doors and the front cables come out over the handle gave me a better idea where to place the cart in my garage, too.

Missing the bottom ring.

Nice shop, but you really wasted much wall space with the “cool” signs. I suggest you rethink that. You’re going to find that you’re accumulating tools and will need the wall space for that.

Very cool project. I have been looking at those shop stools for a few years, but you're right, they are dang expensive. Some redesign notes: -The commercial one has a hoop foot rest, which also adds a whole lot of rigidity at the ends of the legs. If you aren't using a hoop, I would add a strut, skeletonized to match the legs, between each of the 5 points at the castor tube. Anything to keep the legs from twisting, which they will, because we are all meat heads who will end up having stool races down the driveway! -The T-nuts should be on the other side of the wood, pulling the head of the nut into the wood, like a built in washer. -I would like to see a slightly larger diameter seat pan, and I would suggest rolling the edge ever so little for long term flatness. You could even peen the edge over if you don't have a bead roller. Prolonged sitting on the edge of the stool will twist a flat plate... the rolled edge acts as a gusset of sorts. Or, double up the nuts inside a tube, same as the base but with the nuts close together... then add some gussets from the pan to the tube. -Spray a little WD-40 (or some fancy weld spatter spray) on the threads when tacking. It's cheap, quick, and effective. Either way, this is an awesome project. Thanks for sharing with us!

Отличный стул!!! Сиденье из фанеры прикреплено на забивные гайки, а гайки забиты со стороны винтов.

Very nice 👍

Can’t wait to see more updates and projects and more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab on. Weld on Keep Making. God bless.

T-nuts should be on the other side. Other than that it's a good build.👍

Really nice setup you have, would love my shop to look like yours :) I do have CNC plasma as well, which I have made myself.

hehehe...as you can see from all the comments about the T-nuts, I thought I'd add my 2 cents about them. :) What Graham Miller said about them (and all the other comments) is absolutely right. Nicely done video, by the way, and I love your shop stool! I have something similar, but I use an old farm tractor seat instead of a round pad. Same concept though. :)

Nice project but the nuts are on the wrong side of the plywood

Nice video. I would have welded in the alignment jig. That would really increase the strength. (I would use TIG). :)

Seems like this could be easily open sourced .. also you need is paper with standardized reference marks or a DIY frame with similar marks......?

Very cool!

This was very interesting and I was wondering about taking a picture of the wrench (not tracing) would have the same or close effect. Thank you.

How handy of a tool that would be to make tools to fit into tighter spaces than intended. Whether due to their thickness or length. Great video!

This is a really neat tool. I’m eventually going to go way overkill on organizing all my tools into shadow box draws and this would be a very useful tool on quickly getting SVGs for each tool. Thanks for going over it.

Excellent build. I agree with the other comments that the T-nuts should be on the other side of the plywood so the bolts pull the flange of the nuts against the wood, they would not pull out that way. Keep up the good chanel.

Very nice video. Are you happy with the accuracy of the machine

A friend and I have debated build or buy. How many hours did you spend on this? Parts & material cost? Electricity cost, consumables, welder/cnc wear cost? Where’s foot rest ring?What was your actual total cost? What was the answer to opening question, which is cheaper? FYI-I’m in the build it camp. 👍

Forgot to mention ... round over the top edge of the wooden disk, by router . best if radius is close to thickness of plywood. Or belt sander or plane or any means you own. The how is not important but it gives more comfort and a pro touch

Realy Very neat. BUT "T NUT" , thresded inserts DO go right through the timber, used a lot in furniture and making loudspeakers and flight cases. tightening the bolt must pull the t-nut flange against the opposite side of the plywood from what is being held on , wheel plate or....... Acme thread is the best. BUT can be expensive. I have never had a standard , solid, threaded bar wear out in this use. I have made and repaired several workshop stools and also upmarket "thrones" which is what a lot of drummers call what they sit on.... some of these are feeble compared to what you made, but are made to fold up. Hello from Ballynahinch in Northern Ireland UK so I use metric.... but makes no difference And I agree ALWAYS SHIELD THREADS... in nuts or on bolts or....cardboard may do , a sleeve or just move a flat bit around as you weld, sticky tape or drop the next size down bolt into a nut,, Nicely made video

Nice shop. Yes I would be interested in seeing a video on your improvements to your plasma table setup.

It appears that you put the treaded inserts in the seat on the wrong side. They should be mounted so the flat side is being pulled into the plywood when the bolts are tightened. Otherwise, an amazing project!

I'm only here for the bloopers. 🤣 Great video and really cool project!

Nice job! If you’re welding in nuts near threads like that in the future I’d suggest tack welding that nut at the end in first that has no exposed threads near it and then flipping it and threading that tacked nut into the rod and tack welding in the other but the same way. That or wrap some tin foil around the exposed threads when tacking. I’ve been messed up by spatter adhering to my threads one too many times… 😂

Very nicely made project, thank you for the video.

Great project! Thanks for the content! Impressive results for a DIY shop stool versus the $500 model online! Maybe make the metal pan the same width / diameter as the wooden seat, with screws further out from center, as this adds strength and rigidity against heavy folks that can cause the wood to flex. Sitting in stools built with a smaller center set of screws tends to be the weakest part of the seat over time for fat guys. Maybe sandwich a second wooden disc to squeeze the leather underside for a cleaner look (rather than see the folds from the side). Outstanding video production! A bit of humor is recommended, especially for longer length videos.

Dang it, now I need a CNC plasma cutter...

I might have missed it, but how big is your shop?

Would you mind sharing more about your tray under your plasma CNC, as well as your tank under your table.

Hello fellow new TH-cam Maker! I’ve got a nice big space I’m working on turning into a proper workshop and it’s great to see how other people are setting up their home shops.

Nice little shop setup, bud! Definitely looking forward to seeing some of the projects you crank out! Im currently in the process of actually setting my garage up to fab stuff at home. But I'm a welder by trade and I feel like if im not building something i might go crazy 😂

Nice workshop

Bring on the projects. Keep the outtakes(love watching those on Cutting Edge Engineering in Australia, too).

Good welders for a home shop. Nice layout and equipment!

Beautiful explanation for everyone unaware of these features and requirements for cnc plasma. Hoping to get a crossfire XR soon. Keep up the videos brother. Great job and much love ❤️

Nice shop. That welding table looks a little low. You might get a sore back bending over that on a project. 😉

Welcome, I love my Crossfire table. That compressor is more than enough for the plasma table, but it must make the blast cabinet painful to use... lol

Is the sub panel in your shop 100 amps?

Where did you source the fixture table from?