Quick'n'Dirty Outfeed/Assembly table

Looks like it should do the job great. Great use of materials at hand.

What wood are the pipes usually made from?

I’d like to make a small pipe organ. Any plans available?

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Nice use of available materials, Nice job!

-- --Chuck

wow…that is amazing…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...177 days to sanity...

A great job of recycling, & it also looks great.

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Thanks for the comments everybody!

GaryK : Depending on the region of the builder and the period most wooden pipes are either made from sugar pine or (more recently) poplar. nothing too exotic. Building even a small cabinet organ is quite an undertaking but it’s certainly doable. I don’t know of anybody who’s done drawings for anything worth doing but dig around on Raphi’s page http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/ and you’ll get a sense of what you’re in for, maybe even enough to draw up plans. I’d be happy to look those plans over if you like and make sure their fit to sing. Raphi’s page got pretty specific if I remember, but If you can’t work it out from Raphi’s material just drop me a message and I’ll send you some more technical stuff. Cheers!

That’s a great looking assembly table, especially for being done on the cheap!

As far as Gary is concerned, I have come to the conclusion that he is an alien from another planet whose engineering and construction skills are far superior to those of mere earthlings. If he says he wants to build a pipe organ, he’ll do it. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Now that you’ve teased us, we look forward to seeing some photo’s of a pipe oorgan work-in-progress

-- Phil in British Columbia

Well Stanley I’m afraid it doesn’t look like much yet lol. Before you build an organ of this style there’s a long period of pipe hoarding and repair that needs must precede the fun parts, but I’ll keep everybody posted.

Nice little table and shop. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

recycling sounds so much better than using scrap

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This is a nice addition to your shop. Outfeed tables like this are essential tools for most shops. Nice use of “scrap” materials as well.

Well done.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Great story, thanks for sharing.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Great job of Re-engineering that available wood on hand!!
You ended up with a beauyiful piece of Shop Furniture.

-- Ed Collinge- Edmonds, WA.

nice table and shop

-- jeanmarc manosque france

Well constructed, nice job!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)