Leather cutting table

[bladegrinder]

Back when I first started doing leatherwork I used the tailgate of my truck and a piece of plywood for cutting leather because my 2/3 of a one car garage knifemaking shop was too small, and my back always killed me afterwards.

fast forward many years and now my knife shop is 30' x 50'. I have another air conditioned place I keep my sewing machine and all my leather stuff but it's small and not really a place to unroll a side of leather.

that's where I came up with this cutting table. at first I just had the one but recently got another to make it wider. it's just two tables with pvc pipes slid over the legs to elevate it to a nice comfortable, no bending over place to cut leather. the light's I made up too using a couple plastic buckets and some pvc pipe. these are nice, I use these light all over my shop where I think I need extra light at the time, I have outlets everywhere and also have two four outlet gang boxes hanging from the ceiling for some of my machines so it's plug and play everywhere.

I figured I'd post a pic of these tables because there's got to be at least one other person that might use this idea. I'm 6'-1" and these tables are at 44", I love them!

 

Edited June 14, 2023 by Northmount
Replaced 3rd party host link with photo

[stelhrse]

Great idea bladegrinder. Thanks for sharing. A question. What diameter and length of pvc pipe did you use for the leg extensions? I have the same issues and this may solve it for me. Thanks.

Edited June 13, 2023 by stelhrse

[fredk]

Good idea

But are they steady enough? I would use pipe  joints to put lengths of pipes running between all the legs, to make them all dependent on each other to stay steady

[Klara]

I solved the same problem by repurposing some telescopic trestles which I had bought when they were available at Lidl (at a much lower price) and putting wide boards over them. 

[Handstitched]

What a great idea. Is that an anvil on wheels I see in the background ? ...and you play a trumpet? 

HS

[chuck123wapati]

very cool !! i like the light stands too!! 

[bladegrinder]

20 hours ago, stelhrse said:

Great idea bladegrinder. Thanks for sharing. A question. What diameter and length of pvc pipe did you use for the leg extensions? I have the same issues and this may solve it for me. Thanks.

It's 1 1/4" stelhrse.

[bladegrinder]

17 hours ago, fredk said:

Good idea

But are they steady enough? I would use pipe  joints to put lengths of pipes running between all the legs, to make them all dependent on each other to stay steady

These tables are rock solid fredk, I liked the single one so much I made another being careful to make them exactly the same height. their like one solid table, there's zero rocking or movement.

[bladegrinder]

12 hours ago, Handstitched said:

What a great idea. Is that an anvil on wheels I see in the background ? ...and you play a trumpet? 

HS

Thanks Handstitched, yep that's an anvil, #220 sitting in a trash can filled with sand. I wish I played the trumpet or any musical instrument. I snore pretty loudly at night but the wife say's it's not music to her ears,

I found that trumpet at a house about to be demolished. part of the job I had before I retired was to go to any property about to be demoed to check for and disconnect any natural gas lines. there were two demo company's in my area and I knew both of them, they let me take pretty much anything that wasn't any value to them, the trumpet looked cool so I threw it in the truck. got a lot of cool stuff over the years!

[Northmount]

On 6/12/2023 at 7:04 PM, bladegrinder said:

I figured I'd post a pic of these tables

Please post photos on this site.  3rd party hosted photos often go missing because user deletes, moves files, closes account, or host changes policies or goes out of business.  Then the post is useless for any future views or research.  There are lots of methods you can use to reduce file sizes to fit restrictions here.  Pics over 800 to 1024 pixels wide aren't displayed in full resolution on many device so you don't need 5MB files.  Also it takes people on the fringes of the internet sometimes hours to be able to view photos.  Be kind to them too!