Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie here from The Black Forest Wood Company if you guys have
been watching our channel you'll know that about a a month ago we poured 7500 of resin into this table
which also made for one of the heaviest tables in this size that we've ever had before and now
we've got it back from our finisher and we want to show you guys the rest of our
process so you're going to get to see us cut it sand it really struggle to do those things
also because it's so heavy and then we're going to take it to gecko to get a spray finish and
next week if you guys subscribe you'll get to see it all finished and put together
so thank you guys for taking the time to watch our video and let us know what you think below
uh okay so here
there is a rock somewhere in here one of these two pencil lines oh it's this one that we would hit
so we gotta go out a little further from there and we're really close to this header yeah
so we're going to be pairing this table with one of our signature trestle bases
uh this is an in-house design that we came up with I think it was about
five or six years maybe even a little more now actually my dad came up with and this is I think
the first one we've done in solid blackened ash a lot of the bases that we've done up until this
point are in walnut but now we're doing one in black and ash so all the joinery that you're
seeing here is actually cut on the CNC and then we're just fine-tuning it with chisels and sanders
just to make sure we get that perfect fit when everything goes together
so now we're ready to assemble these components so we're going to be using titebond 3 wood glue
just because it it's the best wood glue there is we use it on all of our exterior doors and
we know it's going to last forever another thing you'll notice here is that a lot of the components
have been pre-stained on some of the faces and that's just because we're not going to be able to
effectively get in there and finish those corners as good as we can when this is put together
so we we did those beforehand and then you can obviously see that we avoided putting any finish
where there needs to be glue so those end pieces that we just put on they were unfinished on the
inside and then the other one going through the middle of the support too we left that unfinished
just until we're ready to slide the actual trestle through it so after the pieces are glued up
we can then go ahead and finish the rest of those surfaces so we're actually using
the water-based wood stain from general finishes just in their black and it's it's
our personal favorite product for getting this pitch black finish usually one or two coats
often times it's just one gets it perfectly pitch black and then if you let it dry for at least a
week you can actually put an oil-based finish over top of it even though it is a water-based product
so now we're on our way over to gecko finishing to get the sprayed polyurethane finish put on
this table so that that's a client preference you know whether we do our oil-based finish or
the polyurethane the oil-based finish definitely gives a more natural feeling and looking table
but it does have more maintenance so those clients who don't want maintenance we send their pieces to
gecko and they're going to put that super durable i think the product's called savam it's a two
component polyurethane and it works really well on our tables okay so what we're going to do is
we're going to go straight out yeah just get your breath so what we're going to do is we're going to
go straight out that way and then we're going to lift it up so that way it's basically like drywall
and then everyone's going to come around to one side while one person's on that side we're going
to catch the weight of it and then we're going to shim you back around these tables yeah no yeah
and then Nathan just went over the whole thing with an anti-static cloth before
he started spraying and this is just a sealer coat here so he's doing this first sealer coat
i think he said he does two or three sealer coats followed by two separate top coats the reason he
does so many is just because with the epoxy you do have some pits uh and little imperfections that
really if you only put one coat on they're going to be very obvious and kind of stick out whereas
if you can build up your sealer and build up that topcoat you're not going to see as much of those
all right well thank you guys for watching this week's video uh it really means a lot just all the
people who tune in every week to see what we're doing we just got the table back from gecko and
we didn't film that but that was a big struggle as well to get it in the truck and then back out of
the truck but we did it obviously what makes it so heavy is all these river rocks down at this end so
this is just something the client wanted to really fill a lot of the negative space or the empty
space that i guess was just going to be resin on its own and then it's also going to hide some
of the top light from the trestle base that we're putting on this so i actually really like the way
it turned out and with the polyurethane you can really see all the details in there so we've still
got ceramic to put on this and then we have to assemble it onto the base so if you guys subscribe
and tune in you'll get to see that next week but thank you again for watching and we'll see if
charlie has anything to say this week he might be quiet he might might have something to say
okay well you heard the guy