I have not yet built this machine, but I intend to use floor grating for the table grid. Applied to the floor grating will be pieces of square stock that have a slot machined into the bottom which will locate on the slats of the floor grating and the top of the bar stock will be cut to a point.
This is a fairly common method employed on larger torch tables and is effective - except they don't use floor grating. The torch and laser tables I have seen use flat stock stood on edge with the pyramid shaped plate supports applied to the flat stock.
The work supports (pyramid shaped things) are located anywhere they are needed and are considered expendable.
Scott
Consistency is a good thing....unless you're consistently an idiot.