Ultimate Tensegrity Table Build- Steel & Glass
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2020
- edit: If you want the plans for this table check the link below
There's been a lot of tensegrity projects floating around the internet so I figured I'd do my own take. I wanted to make this one rigid enough that it could actually function as a table and safely hold up a heavy glass top. I used 3" square tubing for most of the construction and a 1" threaded rod to make the tensioning mechanism.
This is not an exhaustive set of plans, just some more info I put together after building it to help you out if you want to try to replicate this table. Feel free to do whatever you want with these drawings.
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This is about the fifth “Tensegrity” video I’ve seen and I feel it’s one of the best. Thanks, so much for your time and effort. So far, I’m limited to wood but, I still learned a lot from this video. The variable tension screw was just what the doctor ordered! Awesome!
I agree the screw is genius
Love this video! I was actually going to build something like it for my YT channel, but you beat me to it. Tensegrity tables are the new epoxy river tables and you guys perfected it on the crest of the wave. Congrats.
the one tensegrity furniture that makes sense to me in strength and looks! it looks amazing and its strong as an ox! it surpasses all the derpy wood with rope structures!
I loved this video, not only because it shows the talented craftman, but also because it shows every step in the making : taking measures, marking the steel, clearing after soldering... And it helps me a lot, as a beginner in soldering and work with steel...
There's at least as much talent in steel crafting than in video making ! Good job, again, I loved it !
This table has been on my to-do list since the first time I watched the video. Thank you for posting the plans. I will try to make you proud.
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I really appreciate that you took the time to post the blue prints in the description! This is the best design that I’ve seen of these!!!
Thanks!
@@Chemical14 Its also great that they are free! almost all other creators make you pay
With all the money I make on video, at least the blueprints
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Nice build. I love how you keep us up to date on what you are working on. The majority of these types of videos is just someone cutting and working with pieces that you have no clue what they are for until maybe at the end.
That was the best Windex commercial I’ve ever seen!
Best Tensegrity structure table so far. It looks great and even functional; not just a sculpture. Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson would be proud of it. Watching how you made it was very interesting. Thanks for sharing such great work.
Very nice! Easy enough to make a complete set... Taller, wider, longer... This is an impressive piece, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing it, and your plans!
Wow, ... I had to study this for a few moments to figure out how it even worked. What a creative project! If you ever sell it I hope you get a lot of money for such a unique piece of function art! Great job!
Thanks! I appreciate it!
I had to study it for a year 😂
Help me...I still don’t know haha
@@linkinarmory the chain in the middle supports all the weight, and since he has all the chains on the corners, it prevents it from tipping :) makes sense? Corners =balancers, middle= weight
this is something i didnt ask to see but pleasantly suprised with my recommended. this needs to blow up!
I'd rather it stayed in one piece, considering the effort involved. :P
These are gonna be the new river table yuck. Once it falls and breaks someone’s toe, I’m sure it’ll have no effect on this gimmicky trend.
@@IanSmithKSP They fall over when they break. This happens with traditional tables too, and they've been successful all the same.
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@@DuncanAitken by "Blow up" he probably means "To go viral" :)
That is one mean creative table, a definite statement piece, Im amazed at your talent creating so many different things in your workshop and the talent of StClaude Woodworks in your previous video. But then if you can do up a fire station and outfit your home like you and your friends did Im convinced you can do anything. Thanks for the share, awesome. :)
I've watched a lot of these Tensegrity Table Builds, this is by far the best
Thanks!
Good work
This has got to be the coolest build video and table I've ever seen before. Made it look so easy too.
Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
Outstanding sir. I’m going to have to work this into some of my projects.
Awesome build & video mate! - ...and, very kind of you to share the plans! - Much respect from Australia !
Thanks!
13:22. It’s nice to see a video where someone actually tests it out a bit.
I really like this it’s awesome. Plus the glass top
Just makes it look so much cleaner.
Great job.
A lovely build. I noticed you weld, pushing the weld along the seam. I was taught to hold my torch facing into the weld path. Never seen welding like this, I'll give it a try.
Thank you for the plans. I just finished two of the tables yesterday and they turned out great. I used 2" square because it was leftover from a job and 1/4" chain since I had a bucket of it. Also had some tempered glass that dictated the size. I also welded 5/16" all thread to the chain on the bottom with a hole below for adding nuts with a socket allowing me to fine tune each tension chain for a perfect height. The center tensioner I made out of a 5/8" bolt. Great job and fun project.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure if people would use the plans when I made them. I’m glad that they’ve gotten some use. I’ve got another project with plans I’m working on now so check back soon!
Hey man going to follow your route and go 2” tubing how many feet did you use?
@@joshtrusz9449 I just measured each piece and it looks like around 26' total per table. That's being a little generous. It's one of my favorite projects I've done.
I think this might be my favourite of all the tensegrity tables I've seen. I get that people want to make them look like they are invisibly floating, but I think there's something a bit disappointing about seeing nearly-invisible monofilament that is the opposite of what I feel when I see chains standing up apparently all by themselves
Thanks! Yes that was my thought process exactly. It seemed like trying to hide the tension elements reads like a second, irrelevant “trick”. The interest in the tensegrity is that the materials don’t behave in the way you expect them to, not that they’re hidden. Thanks for watching!
Yep! I was thinking chains myself. I saw this and it solved the adjusting problem.
Yo atomic shrimp! Great work on your latest video👌
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Yeah the fact you can adjust the tension was genus I thought..
@@joesgonefishin4789 You can post that on his video, you know? ;)
Love your clamping system. Subscribed to your channel. Keep doing great job
I can give you enough respect for doing all of this and then putting up the plans for free, insanely generous of you, so thank you.
It was my pleasure, I hope you subscribe!
Spectacular. Real art. Thanks for sharing.
El diseño de tu mesa tipo industrial es genial, supiste equilibrar a la perfección la tensegridad con un buen diseño. Gracias por compartirlo. Ese detalle de los orificios de donde van sujetas las cadenas me encantó.
Damn fine craftsmanship, design and artistry brother!
Simply amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!!
Fantastic craftsmanship and a great step by step video for other metalworkers to follow. The mechanical engineers out there might dispute that this is a true tensegrity structure as the compression elements are not only in compression but are in tension where they bend.
Отличная работа,интересный стол. Молодец!👌
Hola, un proyecto muy interesante, gracias por compartir sus conocimientos.
best tensegrity table I've seen yet. Thanks
I'm an artist and metalworker and love this idea. I might try it in thinner steel with aircraft cables so it looks even more "floaty". Brilliant, clean work. If you're ever in the DC-area, look me up and I'll buy you a pint. Cheers!
Thanks! Good to hear from fellow metalworkers.
This is awesome. I was going to build an infinity cube table but now I’m really considering this instead. Better yet, why not both!?! You make it look so easy but I know I will spend countless hours figuring it out haha
hahaha yeah, but surely the result will be epic xD
Sounds like something I might do now, thank you for the idea
if you do try to do it use coat hangers to do the angles.
@@nathandean1687
Or maybe instead of coat hangers to do the angles you could use some simple geometry.
I guess you could say this project is an example of the old adage " each to his own taste ". It just so happens that over 60 years ago as a graduate engineer I did a " graduate apprenticeship " as it was called at a land-boiler manufacturer in Scotland for two years. Here I learned some basic skills including plating and gas and arc welding. Later on I worked for another company on the River Clyde which built destroyers for the Royal Navy. So I'm familiar with metal working especially on the " heavy " side of the spectrum. My former mates would have strongly approved of this sturdy design, one which we can be sure could well withstand a concerted attack from enemy aircraft.
That said, I have since learned to associate " tensegrity structures " [ a term invented by Buckminster Fuller in the late 1940's who cooperated with others in building these [ usually ] light and airy structures ], which have the characteristics of being at first glance " impossible " because the tension members are often hard to see. They also deflect in response to external forces and are " compliant " or spongy.
So I find this version rather remarkable in that has strayed so far into the domain of heavy engineering - with chains, admittedly hardly anchor chain, but getting on that way, and sturdy welded frames.
SO - as I said " each to his own taste " - and devil take the hindmost !
absolutely love this table, great job!
Nice Job. I love the industrial look of it. Well done.
Project Farm did a great comparison on cutting oils. You'd be interested to see where your 3in1 oil ranks.
Where can one get a bottle of 3 in 1 that big
@@jovanivaldez924 home depot, lowes, ace, most of your local major home and hardware stores
Thats some awesome work you did there, great craftmansship. I'm gonna make myself a little dining table and I wanted to see if such a design would be sturdy enough, and yours seems really good. Definitly looking at your future works ^^
I just wanted to mention, be careful with the angle grinder. As a welder myself, I know that the protection mostly sucks and is always in the way, but a coworker recently lost his eyesight on one eye, because the disk broke (we always worked without protection).
We have a protective face shield, just like yours, and he wore it when it happened. One part smashed it away from his face, and a second disk part cut him straight over the face.
So be safe bro, such skills shouldnt be wasted, because of a dumb mistake
Thanks!
Happened to me. Cut my leg right open, cutting a 45 gallon drum open for cattle drinking containers. Thin cutting disk broken and my leg bears a half inch wide thick and several inches long scar when the pieces went into it. I count myself lucky I didnt lose an eye. I use cutting disk protection now - whereas I always took them off before thinking they are not manly like me, before the incident.
I lost a coworker/friend to this type of accident. He was just doing some quick cuts at home. Disk broke and a small piece pierced his neck. He bled out and died right there in his shed. Simply using a guard would have saved his life. Not trying to be a downer, but it happens all the time.
Best tensegrity table I have seen to date. Great work.
Hats off to the maker
High level of perfection and experience is required for doing such kind of things.
Great job, well done
The outside chains are not under tension unless the top plate is not horizontal. In general, there is little force on the four corner chains, unless you put something heavy away from the center of the plate.
that's why imho a cable would look better, since its to easy to weld the chain too :) and create a fake tensegrity :)
I ran a metal fab shop for 43 years. I could never get my guys to work that fast......no mater how much I paid them. 🤷🏻♂️
the video last 15 minutes, but that doesn't mean it only took them 15 minutes to make. Just FYI.
@@xl000 You must be fun at parties ...
Did you try giving them speed?
@@julianreverse its the fact that the guy did it in 1 day by himself
lightning1402 it took him about 40 hours to complete the project.
Not sure where you came up with one day.
This is absolutely gorgeous!
I love the editing! Super satisfying watch
Looks fierce! A clear favorite among the tensegrity table bills I’ve seen. My one suggestion is due to a pet peeve of mine: I think the glass top should match the dimensions the table. The extra lip provides a mean corner to klutz against. Also, it erases the symmetry of the upper and lower halves of your structure.
Anika: All in the eyes of the beholder....personally the additional 2" extension adds to the overall symmetry and is a pretty common overlap on tables that are not "used" on a daily bases (eg: kitchen table). More than 2 to 3 inches and the klutz factor kicks in big time which I have solved by going to a heavier and thicker (ie 1/2") glass. The glass is more noticeable and less likely to be accidentally bumped into....but that and having it tempered for safety reasons puts the price extremely high.
Look pretty straightforward to me. I think I'm going to buy a Mig welder or something and replicate this too.
This is really cool! I’ve always loved fabrication.
You got skills! Awesome job! Much respect!
Great build! Was totally into until I saw that VW Bug there, then got distracted...love it all👍🏻
This was a random recommended video. Don't know why. Good break from Forensic Files and Conspiracy Theories.
Tensegrity is witchcraft. So technically you are still in the weird part of youtube.
I've seen many floating tables making.. but urs is the best
Love it. Great work and thanks for sharing!
this will be a fine addition to my Lord's dungeon
It always odd seeing your home town in a youtube intro
This type of table has always been a wonder to me. Is something how just tension can balance out with out compression a piece like this. Nice build and just downloaded your plans for it. Now for some fun. Thank You and hope to see more from your channel.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it and good luck with your build!
Amazing work and design!
Welding in shorts & a tee shirt? You're braver than I am. :)
Not sure if I'd call that bravery
The best, most functional table of this kind I've seen. I'm just not much of a fan of the finish.
I love it! Time to get out the everlast and make one for my living room.
It looks very massive, but when you slightly touch it, it moves! 🤩👍
😘😍😍😍😍😍
342 people still cannot figure out how the table is suspended.
Hahahaha
It’s up to 95 that are scratching their heads baffled at the “magic”.
🤣😂
my OCD is telling me 97 people wanted the nut in the bottom ;P
@@salaekis I like this design, but you maybe miss the point about what these (now à hundred) people unlike. Maybe they just don't like something who serve nothing.
I never hunderstand why some people judge the other about what they like or not and also why they imagine from this strange start point, what they understand or not.
Anyway, it is a very nice table and I choose to think that everybody understand there how it works and that some of them are free to unlike complexity or art.
I'd wager whole weight is on the middle chain, side ones are basically just keeping the balance.
Great work. Nice quality table. Very inspiring.
I’m intrigued! Thank You
Who's here cause they saw a stupid facebook post.
I did not slap you I high fived your face
I gave u the 69th like my guy
Me the fucker 🎉
😂😂 me!
You got me
upside down, glass on wrong surface. Bolt below in center, not visible then.
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This would look amazing with a brushed steel finish!
Dude your wrench is so badass. 10/10 project. 11/10 wrench.
An engineering feat, originally created by Donald Trump's barber.
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Glad I wasn’t eating or drinking when I read your comment.
Truly amazing talent !! Thanks for the inspiration!
Que bien cuánto arte,soy Juan Ayala de Argentina,recido en Chile y me encanta ver en youtube todos los que tienen la habilidad de hacer trabajos geniales .👏👏bendiciones amigo.🙏👍
this video was a really relaxing moment for me right now.....thx a lot Chemical !!!
Amazing Idea, great job!
Excellent demonstration!
Raffinierte Konstruktion! Gut gearbeitet und geschweißt!
Absolutes Designer - Möbel.
Respekt!
Danke!
Awsome project. Beautiful table
I love how the strong chains give the illusion that gravity is pulling the top up and heavy chains are needed to stop it from flying up into space.
Proper job guys! I want one!
EXCELLENT WORK
I understand how it works but it's still just blows my mind seeing it.
This is sick. Love it !
Awesome metal work!
Highly innovative and talented person you are. I do fabrication work too but not even close to this epic creation. Video is made beautifully. Enjoyed every moment here. thank you.
really sick !
i would want one for sure
That looks friggin wicked mate.
Great job!! I love the look!
Es impresionante la cantidad de detalles que le hiciste, tengo que intentarlo
Just wonderful !
Great table , good idea !
👍👍👍
many thanks for the table drawings
That was a zen like experience watching this vid
Excellent craftsmanship.
Interesting build. Thank you for sharing.
Wow! Great, keep up the good work
waoo u change that mini idea to that huge one, love it
I would LOVE to see a full sized dining table. Good work man
Great table! Anything tensegrity is interesting. The only change I would make is the put the adjustment nut under the lower arm, so not to be as visible. Nice job!
That *would* give it a cleaner finish.....nice!
Nothing beats a pair of Adidas Sambas.
Awesome build.
Truer words were never written.
I still can't wrap my head around these tables! They are the wierdest, coolest designs!
Very enjoyable and well made clip and table! Thanks!
That table must weigh a ton if it's a pound! 😳🤔
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