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You got the kinda good looks, sugar, sink their hooks inside of me. Unless otherwise noted, all pictures and objects are made by me, Logan Sebastian Beck. loganbeck.com

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XO Table. Process in pictures 2/2.

The table was 48″ diameter round so I made the center of the round my 0,0 point. Since the center would eventually get a pocket to hold the steel legs I even dropped my bit and made a small mark 1/16″ deep of exactly where my 0,0 was just in case something catastrophic happened.

So when I had to mill the pieces to fit into the pockets (the keys) I decided to do this before cutting the final outer profile of the table so I had to make note of how far I moved my X and Y from this point in order to be able to find the center of the table again. This all went off without a problem and I glued the keys into the pockets. The next day I ran the final path one last time to flush cut the keys. I ran the pocket for the table legs and then I cut the outer profile and flipped it and cut the X- key. The rest was basic sanding and clean up and then oiling.

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XO Table. Process in pictures 1/2.

First two sets of boards were dominoed and glued up. A 38″ round was CNC cut out of one slab and the other slab was CNC milled flat on both sides with 1.5″ bit. Then a slightly larger than 38″ (read: +.015″ offset) by 1/16″ deep pocket was cut into this flattened slab. The round slab was glued with perpendicular grain into the pocket and clamped with cauls. This was done to reduce some of the milling time and waste as well as to give the slab cross stability and to prevent warping over time. The reason the second slab was dropped into the pocket was so that the edge where the two slabs met would be hidden once the form was finally milled. 

This final glued piece measured ~3.5″ thick. It was then transferred to the CNC and the roughing pass was done in tiers using the 1/2″ rougher. Then I switched to the 1/2″ ballnose to mill the final form. The final desired form is a tapered disc 3.5″ thick in the center and .5 inches on the edge.

Due to some issues with my file (I had created it before I measured the final glued up slab thickness and forgot to double check it) I ended up milling into the slabs a bit further than originally planned-- this exposed the feathered edge where the two slabs met (the edge I had planned to hide) and two dominos. I ended up having to mill 4 curved pockets to cover unintentionally exposed edge and two round keys to hide the dominos.

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XO Table. Ash and powdercoated steel. 2016.

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Good shot of Apollo Table. Check out that swee CNC sculpted taper!

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Diamond Grill in progress. 2016. Bent steel and hexagon expanded metal.

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Charlie & Katy Bellows. 2016. Second bellows I’ve made using my grandfather’s plans.

Black Walnut, leather, copper upholstery pins.

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Colby Island. 2016. Ash and steel.

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In progress: COLBY kitchen island. 2016. Ash and steel.

Some more plasma cut and bent steel with the help of Eric Hester. Mostly welded up and still working on the details. Big ash top is all glued up but not finish cut. It will get a wood shelf in there too. More soon. Also check out this sweet upgrade we just made. 

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In progress: DIAMOND GRILL. 2016. Steel. CNC plasma cut and bent with the help of my pal Eric Hester and his brand new mag brake. I tacked it up and now I’m grinding and working on the details. Stay tuned for updates.

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WILL bench. California redwood and c-channel steel. Finished with Epifanes satin.

This thing was a beast-- 4″ thick, with beautiful figuring. Some rot on the underside was repaired with a penetrating resin and then the whole thing was finished with 5-7 coats Epifanes gloss followed by three coats satin to finish. I love the satin. 

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RAMP bench (pair). 2016. Collaboration with Eric Hester. 130-year-old longleaf pine (from the Clocktower building in the Heights) and bent and welded steel. These are part of a Fotofest exhibition going on at Rice University right now.

The wood had some sweet little “ramp” sections cut out of from where some sort of cross fastener fit into it. We may end up filling one end on each of those sections with resin and one end with steel. We’ll see.

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HATCH coffee table. 2016. Walnut and steel. Steel and wood finished with tung oil.

Some shots of it finished and being enjoyed by Betty and a few in progress shots.

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CHRISTINE Nightstand. One of a mirrored set. Walnut with maple details, plexiglas & steel. 2014.

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This thing has been blowing up...

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Haven’t updated in a while so I thought I’d give a few sneak peaks of things in the pipeline. Started designing a kitchen island for a friend, should be a fun little project. Also have got a bench made out of a big piece of redwood for a good client in the works. I am also working on a coffee table for myself with solid 3/4″ square legs.

Lastly, I have begun designing the Terrasaur, an offroad teardrop trailer. It is similar to some trailers I’ve found on the internet but I’m designing it so both sides of the trailer actually swing open completely. I will post more of this as the design progresses.