Warped Slab to $27K Table

Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from The  Black Forest Wood Company, this week we're   going to be building a conference table for  a tree service company and we actually had to   break the slab in order to do it so to begin this  build we start with our slab breakdown process so   this is essentially cutting the slab into pieces  smaller pieces that is so that we can lay them out   in the mould and get the size and layout that we  want another thing that you might notice on this   slab I don't know if you can tell from this shot  but it is very very warped so much so that if we   completely flatten it we'll probably be left with  less than two inches thick so we actually had to   break this slab in order to get it flat enough  and basically, take out those warp sections now,   normally we would film something as cool as  that is because we literally took our forklift   and snapped the slab with our forklift  but we didn't need another visit from   occupational health and safety for the  last time we climbed on top of our forklift   so we didn't film it but maybe next  time we'll see if you guys want it   bad enough maybe next time we will take  the risk. Oh I have no grip sorry good sad ah that goes ow my belly something that's become quite popular on  a lot of our builds in the recent months   is a base layer so what that is is we  pour about a half-inch thick opaque layer   typically it's black but like for the table for  Joe Manganiello we did a metallic blue base layer   and what this does is it prevents you from seeing  the leg plates that are used to mount the legs   onto the table but it still allows the majority  of the pour to be clear which lets you see those   beautiful live edges of the piece of wood once  the base layer is cured we go ahead and give   it about 180 grit sanding and then it's time to  top it off with the final layer of clear resin   there's kind of two ways you can go about  the base layer we're doing the first way   here which is letting it cure and then  sanding it but the second way is letting   it only partially cure so it's still soft  and then pouring your second layer over top is it too close to where  I am yeah I know it's nice but I'm just saying this is a pretty  wide table they were already off right it was popped all the way this  is a new sheet so it should okay watch your fingers underneath yeah okay let's go there okay we're gonna drop soon there we go that was super easy so easy so now we are using our Festool track saw to  actually, trim this piece to size so Festool makes   a very nice saw this track saw you know it's quite  precise there's a lot of fine adjustment features   but the only I guess downside to this saw is it  does kind of lack in power not that you can't work   around it, it's just in order to make a cut like  this you're going to have to go in multiple passes and now we're adding the recesses that are  actually going to house the leg pockets so this is   just a small little detail that we've been doing  on our tables for years but the top plate for   our legs are six millimetres thick and we're  just putting in a six-millimeter thick recess   this way when you look underneath the table you  don't actually see those mounting plates from   the bottom side and it just kind of looks like the  legs go into the table itself so small detail but   something we always like to do so we sand our  tables to 320 grit and then once they're done   if the client has requested a urethane finish we  take them over to Jeco so what you're seeing Ian   do here right now is he's sanding with 400 grit  and that's because he's actually already applied   the sealer coats to this piece so after he applies  his sealer over our 320 grit sanding he does a   400 grit sanding then removes the dust and then  finally he can go ahead with the final top coat   so this is a sprayed acrylic urethane that  Jeco's using it is catalyzed as well so this   is a two component product meaning that there's  a hardener in there just to give more durability   and this is the most durable finish that we  have to offer for our clients it's resistant   i think all the way up against sulfuric acid in  terms of liquids it's highly abrasion resistant   as well the only downside to this finish is  there's really nothing that you can do yourself   to fix it or repair it so if you want something  that you can maintain and keep looking beautiful   maybe you want to go with an oil finish but if  you know you're someone who's really careful and   you're going to protect your table and you don't  need to maintain it then you're probably going to   want to go with the polyurethane finish something  else that we didn't end up getting film for this   table but is a critical step to the finishing is  our black forest ceramic coating so after ian has   finished applying the polyurethane and it's fully  cured we go ahead and apply two coats of our base   coat and uh two coats of top coat sometimes  one sometimes two whatever you guys want to do   but that further increases the durability  it gives a hydrophobic effect and it also   uh it does allow you to do a little bit of  maintenance on the polyurethane where you can't   usually if you don't have the ceramic by having  that ceramic on top you can touch up any small   abrasions or scratches that do end up happening  now we get the table hoisted up in the air so we   can mark out where our threaded inserts are going  to go and then we pilot hold them out and just   get those threaded inserts put into the bottom of  the table again this is another nice small detail   that we always like to do on our tables instead  of just using your normal wood screws threaded   inserts will allow you to remove the legs and  reattach them as many times as needed without   actually stripping out the holes in the table  so some of you were slick last week you noticed   where we missed some editing in the video so  this week we're hiding another little easter egg   I just want you guys to start your comment  with charlie and we'll know that you watched   at this point in the video and we'll be sure  to respond to all of your comments specifically OW okay all right all hands on okay tell us when we're that close stabilize the carts brothers all right get that straight underneath there now it's time to get the legs put on the table and  actually get it flipped over in the space for our   client so all of the legs fit perfectly in the  recesses one thing i don't know if you can see   but we do have some clearance around the outside  just so it can expand and contract a little bit   then we got to get the whole team on  one side of this table to flip it over   because this thing is an absolute beast  the legs are probably close to 200   pounds per leg and the top is probably  somewhere close to a thousand pounds   so not an easy lift by any means at all and  then once it's flipped over the last step   is just to clear all our garbage away get the  blankets put back in the truck put the clients   chairs back around the table and of course  collect the check and then we're out of here well I hope you guys enjoyed seeing  our process for that table build   one thing I don't know if anyone noticed but that  slab actually came from the same exact tree as   the table that we're building for Joe Manganiello  um so that's something kind of unique and if you   look to my left we've actually got one left that  giant slab over there literally the biggest one   it's the last one left from that tree and it  sold we're going to be making a desk from it   but that'll be for a future video but let us  know what you guys thought of this conference   table build let us know if you like the space  that it went into and we'll see you next week!

Channel: Black Forest Wood Co.

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 22 2022