Mother Earth News Univeral Welding Table

This is just too cool. Check it out at Mother Earth News...

Any serious welder knows that one of the most useful—and versatile—tools in his or her shop can be the table on which the work is accomplished. That platform, you see, is often far more than just a waist-level workbench for metal fabrication. Ideally, it'll be a welding station "headquarters", set up to accommodate a head shield, clamps, chippers, and electrodes (along with the handle that fits them)... an accurate measuring device for both gauging lengths and squaring corners ... a solid foundation you can clamp components to when the job must be "just right" . . . and a base upon which other useful tools—such as bending brakes and jigs—can be mounted.

So when Leroy Richter, MOTHER'S Eco-Village director, realized he'd be doing a whole lot of metal fabrication in preparation for this summer's scheduled activities he made up his mind to build—at last!—the welding bench that'd been sorely needed in our research shop for years.

Mother Earth News has photos, diagrams, a bill of materials - everything you need to do this project. Go do it!