My current table for the granite is my lifting table, the same one I use to move machines. when I am not using it I can lower it to the floor and tuck it under something else. Or I can leave it on some jack stands and run off with the table. It cost me less than 100 bucks from an HF type place up here. I wouldn't put my hands in the scissors though!

There is a current thread on Velo Salon about stands for granite tables over there. I can`t probably see all of them since I don't have an account, but one of them was pretty nice. Look at David Bohms. Some people on that thread where worried about the 3 point supports being unsteady If I had room for a fixed table, I would make it something like bohms, but with crosspieces that would support the three points and only be about .25 in above the perimeter rails.

http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...lab-16341.html

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