Pallet Wood Turned into a $30K Table

You're not going to believe how amazing  this table is! Hey everyone, it's Dylan from The Black Forest Wood Company this week we're  going to be showing you our construction process   on this absolutely one-of-a-kind cottonwood  burl dining table it's got midnight blue   Black Forest Deep Resin and then the largest  cantilever base that we've ever constructed   so you guys are going to get to see this full  build process and then you're also going to get   to see it delivered into the final space so it's  not that common that you'll see cottonwood being   used to create a thirty thousand dollar piece of  furniture some little-known fact I guess about   cottonwood is it's mostly used for like pallets  crates uh plywood fuel like they'll actually   burn it as fuel that it's like the lumber  is that invaluable in most cases let's say   as you guys can see though this tree is  a little bit of an anomaly it is highly   burled highly figured in just a one of a kind  piece and definitely worth using in this table you see how that got in there saved his life saved  my toes yeah i saved his life there haley so this   client selected a massive piece of cottonwood burl  we do have to cut it down slightly though but not   too much since they are going with a cast so this  slab is going to stay mostly intact i personally   think that's probably the best choice for  this lab since it is so rare to actually   find a piece this large like this slab in some  sections is over five feet wide so doing it as   a cast is kind of the perfect application for  this piece once we got it all cleaned up and   debarked then we went ahead to do the pour and the  client selected a midnight blue resin you'll see   why once we get to the delivery and we get this  piece in the client space the the resin color   here actually ends up matching perfectly of course  as usual we're using our black forest deep resin   you can pour the our resin up to like three or  four inches thick in a single shot but you will   want to make sure that you have some cooling  involved so we have aluminum tables that have   water cooling underneath them and then we also  blow fans on the surface i would say without   the water cooling you can probably do three  inches safely just with some fans and then if   you're going to exceed that you definitely want  to get some sort of either air-conditioned room   the aluminum cooled table or something to  help keep the resin cool while it cures then once we got it de-moulded and lifted down from  upstairs it's time to put it on our avid CNC for   flattening so we actually do have two CNC machines  we have a Biesse that we use for door joinery   and table joinery and then we have our avid  that's primarily just used for flattening   so this is the bottom side and usually  the bottom side only takes a pass or two   one thing though with this table is it's too  wide to fit through our wide belt sanders so   to get all these CNC marks out we're going to have  to sand that by hand we like to start with the gem   sander and then move to the murka for finish  sanding then it's time to get working on the   base so this is another one of our cantilever  bases we've done one of these one time before   and it was much smaller than this one so this is  the largest cantilever base that we've ever done   the whole thing is constructed from solid ash that  we're going to be putting a blackened finish on   and then we've just got our door dowels that  we usually use in our door manufacturing to   assemble some of the components for this base  what you're seeing here right now is actually   the the center support that will will hold the  whole cantilever up so that that's made out of   three plies and then this is the fatter shorter  part of the cantilever that that center support   actually passes right through the middle of so i  don't know if i'm doing a good job describing that   but shortly here once we get assembling the  base you'll you'll see what i mean by everything and then here's that center support once it's out  of the clamps and what the boys are doing here   right now is they're clamping it into the drill  press so that they can drill the angled joinery   that's going to hold it into the  shorter fatter piece of the cantilever   so again we're going to be using here these holes are going to be for big long  screws that are going to hold this together   we could rely on wood glue or dowels but  the screws will actually help to pull the   joinery tight so that's what we've decided to  do here and since this is going to be hidden   inside the joinery of the base no one is ever  going to see these holes or see the screws   so it's just kind of a nice  insurance policy for our joinery and now comes to the glue-up  of the base the final assembly   so we do put a little glue on the one face for  that center support and here's the screw holes   that I was talking about earlier so we've got nine  screws that we're going to be sinking in there   so with all of that support you know this base  should be nice and strong we shouldn't have to   worry about anything ever coming apart  or any movement in this space you know   it could happen but we've purposely  over-engineered this base to not fail okay after final assembly is done we took  this piece to Jeco to get it blackened   normally we do our blackened finishes by hand  but the top for this table was getting sprayed   by Jeco as well so we just decided to have them  do the spray finish on the base so that everything   matched so they do the spray stain first and  then once that's cured they actually go ahead and   spray the same clear coat that  they used on the top on the base now that the base is back from Jeco you can  see the nice blackened finish with the clear   coat on it uh it's time for us to install our  metal inlays so on our first cantilever base   we did brass inlays this client though has a  lot of nickel in their space so we're doing   aluminum inlays that are going to imitate nickel   aluminum is nice because it's non-ferrous so it's  really easy for us to cut turn and polish anything   like that it's just a lot easier to work with  and john here is just using a bead of silicone   to help secure all these in place and then  we tape it in and in our experience the   silicone does a really good job of holding  in small inlays like this for the long term   oh the supports okay since this tabletop is so  large and so heavy we can't just rely on the   wooden supports of the cantilever on their own so  we're actually adding some aluminum dowels on the   overhanging edge to give some extra support and  stability so john's just cutting those to length   on the Festool and then we actually put them on  the lathe to get a nice brushed finish on them okay switch around isn't that lovely oh that's a beauty  okay now that we've got the top   flattened sized and sanded we take it over  to Jeco for them to put their finish on it   so this is a two-component acrylic urethane that  they're spraying on here and we have been getting   a lot of questions you know how do we decide  whether we're going to do an oil finish or a   spray finish and it really ends up coming down to  the client preference so the pros and cons of each   finish are I guess let's start with polyurethane  the pros are the biggest one is the durability   it has very high resistance against any kind of  liquids or watermarking I think it's actually   rated uh for resistance all the way up against  sulfuric acid you know i don't see why that would   ever end up on a client's table but should  it happen, they're covered the downsides to   a polyurethane though would be that if you get any  kind of accidental damage like a scratch or a chip   it's not the kind of finish you can repair on your  own you're having to call us to take the table out   of your house and have it resprayed whereas an oil  finish you can easily repair any damage but it is   going to show damage easier so you're going to  probably expect to have maintenance like once or   twice a year on an oil base finish table whereas  a polyurethane table that's well taken care of   may never need maintenance it's just if something  should happen it's a lot more costly to repair okay so we've just pulled up to our clients uh  gorgeous home here um the table's very big so   fortunately it's just a straight shot in but  if you look here the door is kind of narrow so   it's a little bit of a tight squeeze through  there but then once we're through there that   that should be the hardest part and then  the rest should be easy we're hoping you carried it more than me how heavy do  you think it i think it's like 500 pounds   yeah at least 350 pounds on the low end   do you want to walk right into where it goes on  the edge do the felt then stand it up yeah okay all right let's lift some weight here guys now even when it goes sideways  we can't grab this really no okay which way do we want to look at it I'll be able to get in but we're going to lose  support here I'll try to keep it here can you   get inside here Curtis because you have to  there you go, there you go we're getting   close on this side here it's tipping keep it  level, which way you want the cantilever to face   maybe we can should we set  it on this edge here to do that was the hard part you're not going to  believe how amazing this table is this is   incredible this is one of the craziest tables  like with the base concept and everything you   don't have your felt certification i don't have  belt certification as of yet good yeah yes okay okay all right   don't very well watch your head okay so we  want to pivot it now right as we set it down okay good i guess it's going to be easiest what bring it  off this way and then tilt it up that way to go in   let's lift her up a bit guys okay don't come  this far we're good okay keep going alright and as soon as we get a vertical you guys  got to get under it too come under okay go vertical guys we'll be able to kind of tilt it  and walk it around three two one okay okay okay let's go yeah yeah overseas how did she go okay not too much, too much okay right  about there okay now she goes yeah   because from here I just see glare thank you guys for watching this week's youtube  video this table turned out absolutely incredibly   it's a stunning piece of cottonwood burl like even  just the piece of wood on its own it's very rare   to find something this figured and this large and  then just pairing it with this nice midnight blue   resin that ties perfectly into the other details  in the home with such a nice touch and then the   cantilever base has nickel detailing and you can  also see matching nickel details on the chairs so   I am overly satisfied with how this whole  project came together huge thank you to our   clients for trusting us with this process  and allowing us to create such a beautiful   piece and I hope you guys enjoyed watching  the process and we hope to see you next week

Channel: Black Forest Wood Co.

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Length: 18min 54sec (1134 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 08 2022