Why We Choose North American Materials
If you’re looking for an American made welding table, we’ve got ’em. Here’s why we use American steel.
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Introducing Our Newest Plasma Cutting Tables
For a long time we’ve been offering our popular 30″x50″ plasma cutting table. It’s a great little tool that makes a huge difference when you need to cut material by hand, or with a small CNC plasma cutting device like the ArcDroid, GoTorch or portable CNC plasma cutters from Amazon. We’ve also had many requests
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How to Debur a Laser Cut Hole
If you’ve recently received one of our tables, you might notice that the underside of the laser-cut holes have a slight burr (or you may never notice). This burr is just a tiny rough edge that surrounds the hole, and in 99.9% of all cases it has no bearing on your life. What you will
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Introducing ModPro Welding Booths! Modularity FTW!
We’re super excited to introduce our newest product line! After being asked way too many times if we offer welding booths to go along with our welding tables, we’re releasing a fully modernized, new and improved kind of Welding Booth. They go by the name ModPro, because unlike every other welding booth in existence, ours
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Weld Table Lead Time Statistics
At Texas Metal Works, we’re hyper-focused on continuous improvement. We’re building teams, processes, systems, and designs to make our products the best in the world! In fact, our ISO 9001 processes have us constantly looking at data (and defining our goals and objectives of that data)! We’re often asked, “How long will it take to
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WOLFRAM Weldstation: The Ultimate Welding Table
Howdy, fellow welders! We’ve been building and refining the concept of professional fabrication tables for years, and we’ve learned a LOT of lessons from that experience. Now we’ve taken all of that knowledge and rolled into a new product that that we believe will make your jobs easier and your welding projects more enjoyable. The
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Why We NEVER Have Sales
People often contact us and ask if we have any sales coming up, or if we offer discounts for military, first responders, schools, etc… So I wanted to explain our pricing philosophy. First, to answer the question: we simply don’t discount. Ever. Believe me, we love our service men and women! Several of our family
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Why You Should Level Your Welding Table
At Texas Metal Works we own a very expensive and extremely accurate laser measuring system. It’s the same system used in the aerospace industry, and we use it to test our tables for quality control purposes. Since most people don’t have access to a $100,000 measuring tool, I wanted to share some information that you’ll
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Fun Games to Kill Time! (What’s This Doing here? :-)
Sometimes, you just need to have a little fun. So in the interests of Science, we’re posting some little games you can play. For no good reason at all. Enjoy!!! Tetris Click the image to play the game, then use your arrow keys to control the blocks and fill up solid rows to make them
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Calculate the Weight of a Steel (or Aluminum) Plate or Sheet
The easiest way to figure out how much a steel plate weighs.
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Which Steel is Better For A Welding Table – A36 VS. A572-50
The one where we explain why in the world you should care about the type of steel a welding table is made out of…
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What is the Flattest Welding Table Surface?
We explain the difference between Fabricated, Milled and Blanchard Ground welding tables. In plain old English!
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How We Build Super Flat Weld Tables
Hard work. Attention to detail. Pride of workmanship. We’ve got no secrets – we want our customers to know what goes into the tables we build. So today I’m outlining how we build our welding tables, and also importantly why we build them this way. (Note: We have a more recent article about the different
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How To Flip A Welding Table With A Forklift
If you ever need to flip a big heavy welding table, or just about any other kind of table, and you happen to have a forklift nearby, here’s the easiest way we know of to make it happen in just a few quick steps! Know of any other good techniques – with or without a
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Welding and Fabrication Table Top Thickness – 1/4″ vs 3/8″
Should you really pony up the cash to pay for an extra thick top on your already expensive welding / Fabrication table? No. Here’s why.
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Accessories For Our Welding Tables
If you pick up one of our exceptional welding tables you may be wondering what to do with all of those fixturing holes! Well, this article will outline some of our favorite options. Clamping The holes on all of our tables are cut to accommodate “standard” tooling that is labeled as either 5/8″ or 16mm.
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How to Keep A Welding Table From Rusting
We sell a lot of welding tables, and the two most common questions are: Well, we’ll tackle number two later, so for now let’s talk about how to care for steel tables that are exposed to the elements. Both before and after they get attacked with rust. WD-40 Is Your Best Friend Although everyone knows
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Installing the Jeep Wrangler JL Accessory Mounting System
Installation guide for our Jeep Wrangler JL Unlimited Cargo and Accessory shelf system.
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Welding Table Flatness – Why, and When It Matters
What Exactly Is Flat? One of the most misleading things in the welding table supply business is the way vendors intermix machine specifications while discussing welding table flatness, ignoring the difference between finished products and the machines they’re made on. So let’s clear things up. There are two primary types of welding tables being supplied
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Building the 42Fab GIANT Steel Chiminea
Normally we post about projects we design and fabricate on our own, but this time we’ve got to give a huge shout-out to Richard Day at 42Fab in Oklahoma City. Richard has a YouTube channel where he shares all sorts of projects, and when we saw his Giant Steel Chiminea project it was love at
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Breathing New Life into Old Picnic Tables
A little while back we had the opportunity to redesign and refurbish the old picnic tables at a local park. The old tables had a nice concrete base firmly planted in cement, but they had extremely weathered, rusty and downright dangerous expanded metal surfaces that were desperately in need of replacement! So we decided to
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Fabricating a Custom Live Edge Table Support
Our friend and professional woodworker Kevin Tunis is always coming up with crazy ideas for beautiful wood tables, and occasionally they are so massive they could use a little extra support. We worked together to create a unique Texas-themed support for one of his custom projects. The wood legs for the table are plenty strong
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Turning the Johnson Service Group Logo into Wall Art!
We recently had the opportunity to create a beautiful piece of wall art from the Johnson Service Group logo for a new office location in Texas. The concept was to recreate their corporate logo as a 3D sign to hang in the reception area. This meant the logo first had to be re-created in a
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Building the Texas Elite Arched I-Beam Table Base
My buddy Kevin Tunis is a woodworker with a flare for making high-end custom tables with rare and massive wood slab tops. One such table is his Texas Elite which merges classical woodworking with custom metal fabrication for a table unlike anything you can get anywhere! Kevin loves to challenge convention, and the design of
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