It's taken some time, but I'm moved into my new 1/2 size studio space where I've moved all my letterpress stuff. Once I had the presses and type and so on moved over, I realized I needed a work table. Using a plan found online, my husband and I built this awesome and quite massive table. The plans had a few mistakes in the measurements but we managed to work around them. My enhancement was to put on wheels. I collect them off of discarded metal things at our town's recycling center. I look for the ball bearing kind and fortunately I had four nice ones. They aren't the kind that have brakes which we were worried about. The table moves easily but I think it's stable enough without the brakes. The stain I first put on emphasized the plywood aspect too much, so I painted over it with a nice neutral greenish gray. The etching press in the background is not mine--it's in the other half of the studio which belongs to another artist.
Now, it's time to get some work done!
2 comments:
Nice table! Do you sit or stand when you work?
Hi Annie,
I am expecting to stand although I have an extra high office chair. It's kind of like a bar stool with a back that I found by the side of the road. I had to decide how tall to make this table and I'm only 4'11" tall so it was a critical decision. I went with pretty much the height in the original directions except that I subtracted the height of the wheels from the wood. So if I remember right it's 36 or 37" high. That's way more than waist high for me but good for setting type in a chase and might be ideal if I bring my carving thingie that I made with inspiration from Graham Scholes thingie.
Lynn
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