About Us

Who We Are:

We are a small design / manufacturing company based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally, this business started the way most small businesses do, with one person and an Idea, however, it soon turned into something much more. It started when I, like many others, couldn't afford to buy the welding table I really wanted, so I had an idea to design and build it myself. I designed the first table as complex as possible and soon realised I was in way over my head, I scrapped the first table and began designing the second table to be much easier to build, incorporating a laser cut design in the table top. For the most part, the second table turned out great, but we realised that it had taken us over a week to build just one table, I realised that I would end up having to sell it for over $3,500 in order to make a small profit.

I looked into other means of production. Cast iron tables? Too expensive. CNC milled table tops? Too expensive. Importing from China and India? WAY too expensive. I had all but given up until I was working on a welding project that required me to weld from the centre of the work piece outward. The table I designed wouldn't allow me to do it so I had to build a rig in order to weld this project together. Several days later the phrase was muttered, "there has to be a better way", and so an idea was born. 

I spent the next day searching for welding tables that allowed the welder to work from the center of the table and found nothing. So I then started designing tables with a laser cut top, but I couldn't figure out how to realistically build the frames. I then remembered that the second welding table was made so much more practical by the laser cut top, so I started looking up laser cutting techniques and popular table designs I could improve on. I found several laser cut welding table designs we liked and started brainstorming other ways I could improve upon them.

The next idea I had was for the legs to weld directly to the frame, this made the entire production process easier and cheaper overall. I started to design the table with as many practical and useful applications as possible. The end result is the one you can buy on our website for hundreds of dollars less than any comparable welding table on the market.

The Future of GC:

As of April 2020, we have partnered with Oz General Store, a subsidiary of Hugh Murray & Son. Handling distribution and advertising, we're looking forward to working with them for the future!

If you have any inquiries, contact the Oz General Store team at 03 9791 7033 or email us at sales@ozgeneralstore.com.au!