How to Age Galvanized Metal and Build Your Own Industrial Table
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Want to get the look of old, worn metal, but don't have any pieces just lying around? With this step-by-step tutorial, you can! Although the process is a bit labor intensive, you can create the worn look using brand new supplies. Supplies you'll need include galvanized metal (plumbing fixtures), HCl/toilet bowl cleaner, a small blow torch, vegetable oil, beeswax, and of course safety equipment.
Once you're done aging your metal, you can then build a beautiful, high end industrial table using your metal and an IKEA butcher block countertop. You'll need a circular saw, router, sander, and a drill to complete this portion.
Once you're done aging your metal, you can then build a beautiful, high end industrial table using your metal and an IKEA butcher block countertop. You'll need a circular saw, router, sander, and a drill to complete this portion.
The finished product! DIY Industrial Side Table.
How to Age Galvanized Metal - a full tutorial
Using the blow torch to heat your metal once you've removed the zinc coating.
Stain the butcher block counter top pieces to get a bit more of an worn look.
Optional - paint numbers on the top and distress to complete aged look.
After shot of table.
Table built and ready to enjoy!
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Be very careful of heating galvanized products. Burned zinc gives a toxic vapor that can make you VERY ill (even in a well vented shop). Easy to get metal fume fever (a form of heavy metal poisoning). It feels kind of like a bad flu. The effects are cumulative and once you have had it, if you are exposed YOU WILL GET IT AGAIN and a worse case. Heating or welding galvanized metal and in some cases over heating brass along with brass grinding/sanding dust can also poison you. To be safe soak the part in muriatic acid overnight(to remove the zinc) and then then rinse with water. You may want to neutralize the acid with baking soda, then you may treat it as any other part.
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This looks like the sort of the thing you should leave to professionals - I bought this really quirky coffee table for my flat from this place - http://www.barak7.co.uk/en/ . They make similar stuff to your industrial table.
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