adjustable drafting table

Through a summer engineering-design program, myself and three friends used a TechShop maker-space to build a steel frame, four person, adjustable drafting table which we designed with students and artists in mind. It now lives in the library at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, MD.

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Brainstorming ideas and design concept.
Brainstorming ideas and design concept.
Brainstorming ideas and design concept.
Cutting wood for adjustment mechanism and tabletop.
Measuring and cutting angle iron for table frame.
Welding table frame.
Frame welding progress.
Frame welding progress.
Completed table frame (before paint).
Sanding and spray painting table frame.
Finished frame and cut list.
Staining and sealing tabletop.
Completed frame and tabletop without adjustment mechanism.
Welding in part of the adjustment mechanism.
Drafting and modeling an adjustment mechanism part.
Laser etching part shape into wood.
Cutting part on band saw.
Finished adjustment mechanism.
Attached adjustment mechanisms on entire table.
Completed table.
Completed table.