Mehowski, I stopped building the roof racks because they weren't really profitable with the amount of work/money involved in building them. I will probably revisit that idea and try to refine things once I get a CNC plasma cutter, which is hopefully happening in the next few months.
I'll include a little project that I knocked out on Monday. Been wanting to build a rolling stand for my bead roller since I bought it. Dragging it around has proven to be annoying and also very risky, it almost tipped over on me the other day while I was moving it which had my heart pounding for a few minutes afterwards, it's just very top heavy. Almost every tool/table I own is portable in some way, so it's only fitting that my biggest heaviest tool should get the same treatment. Gotta have everything mobile with how often I move things around. I finally found the time to get that taken care of so I grabbed some scrap 1.5" square tubing and a set of casters that I had laying around and built this simple little stand:
The bead roller sits pretty tall as it is, so I didn't want it to be too tall to use once it was on the stand, which is why I designed it to sit inside of the frame rather than on top of it. It actually worked out great because now it's the perfect height to use while standing, the table is about chest height which allows me to easily get eye level with the dies as I'm sending the sheet metal through. That wasn't really planned out but it worked out great, very happy about it. Plus it's so nice to finally be able to roll it around easily.
I also made a few little finishing touches on that platform I built. The idea of it being up there during an earthquake has been on my mind a lot, so I re-evaluated where I ran the lift mounts and I ran a removable chain across the front section to hopefully keep things from falling down if that should happen. I also replaced the original casters with taller and beefier ones, which allows it to roll around much smoother and makes it loading it up on the lift easier because it barely cleared the lift arms before. Win Win!
Quick backstory, my girlfriend Janine started wood working about a year ago after I showed her how to make some designs and use the chop saw. She never left my shop after that day, and she started her own little business doing wall decor and some furniture related stuff. She now has her own dedicated section of my shop where she built her own work table and made it look all tits and that's where she works out of now. We're both in the shop everyday and it's a lot of fun, I'm very grateful to be in this situation. You can check her stuff out at www.ifyougiveagirlasaw.com and her Instagram is @ifyougiveagirlasaw, she builds some pretty cool stuff. Here she is working away filling orders:
We keep our work separate for the most part but collaborate on projects here and there. About 2 weeks ago our shop neighbor approached us and asked if we could build them something. He owns a rad coffee shop in downtown San Luis Obispo and we've become pretty good friends with him. He commissioned us to build them an events bar which will mainly be used for Farmer's Market on Thursday nights but will be used for any other event they do. It was fun getting to build something together, and I think it turned out pretty sweet. He has a really cool new espresso machine that will be placed on top of it. I'm still getting the hang of editing product photography so I'm sorry if it looks choppy or improper, but you get the idea:
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