Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from The Black Forest Wood Company and this week we're
going to be showing you the process of this six-foot round sycamore burl dining table with
solid white resin that we've paired with a blackened ash and blackened steel base and
we don't do white that often so let us know what you guys think of this white colour and I hope you
enjoy the video. So the table base for this is a large pedestal base we're doing a blackened
ash cylinder that's going to support the table and then on the bottom of that cylinder, we're going to
have a one-inch thick steel plate so as opposed to doing one big stack lamination and making
this cylinder is completely solid we're gluing up an octagon with three-inch-thick material here
so we used our CNC to cut all of the angles on here and then we've actually put a few biscuits in
as you guys can see those are mostly just for alignment, they're not so much going to add
strength to this uh the Titebond 3 is going to give most of that strength on its own but the
the biscuits just make it a lot easier when we go to put it together so we've got everything set up
and we're going to be putting the final piece in and then we've actually got a filler block that's
going to go at the top and the bottom and the only reason for that filler block is just so we
have something to actually grab it on on the lathe because we're going to be turning this round after
as you can see we've got one end of this big glue-up being held by the chuck and
then we've just got the spur drive going in on the other end of this piece and John I believe
he's just taking a grinder right now to any of the sharp edges so that when
he goes to turn this it's not going to be banging on the tool because this is
you know quite a large piece to be turning on the lathe so maybe a little bit sketchy
but we do have a nice big one-way lathe so we can do this somewhat safely
unfortunately, we didn't get too much in terms of content from Jeco for the finishing of this piece
uh it did end up getting a sprayed polyurethane so there's a little clip of the bottom
here's another clip of the bottom where they're just taping everything off before they're going
to flip it to do the top side but unfortunately we missed that part okay well we've got this table
pretty much ready to ship out to the client now one thing I didn't mention this is actually going
to get used as a restaurant table so there's very little UV exposure in the environment
this piece is going to go in it's actually like in the basement of a restaurant so zero sunlight is ever
going to hit it which is why we felt comfortable using the white pigment in the resin typically if
there was any kind of environment like we're kind of in right now where it's getting direct sunlight
we wouldn't recommend this because it's not going to go yellow instantly and it's not gonna
go like an obvious colour of yellow but it won't be quite as brilliant of white and it might take
five to ten years but we build our tables to last longer than that so we only recommend this in low
UV exposure but in this case, it's perfect for it the whole team really loves how this piece came
out we're super stoked and we can't wait to hear what the client thinks and again we want to know
what you guys have to say about this piece let us know also what this table reminds you of um
Jeco, the people who finished it they said it reminded them of a cowhide they were calling
it the cowhide table. So let us know what comes to mind when you see this table okay so we did
the shoe last week and there there was a lot of different comments we got about it the first one
that was actually kind of a surprise to us because we didn't notice it until you guys pointed it out
the Nike Air logo on the tongue the white dye actually bled out of it so
if you look closely you you can still see it so for those of you that were saying you know people
are going to think it's fake you can you can tell it was there uh but the resin has obviously kind
of broken down and dissolved the dye that was there and that's what we were experiencing
in some of the tests that we did do for this but it was more so happening with the laces so we
didn't expect it to happen in the tongue and the other comment we got uh we saw a lot was
that we should have done more tests and we should have sealed the pieces prior to doing the pour
so we actually did do a whole bunch of tests and we're going to show you that next and show you why
we decided to just do nothing to this shoe here's our three failures we had to get to this place
this was the first one yeah this is the first one and I had the idea of sealing
the shoe before casting the shoe and the ceiling failed horrendously a leaked black dye all over
the sole of the shoe um but there wasn't very many bubbles there was a few but not very many
but that was still a fail so let's try one failed oh also I should mention they look really yellow
because we used old crappy resin for the base layer you can see the base layer super yellow so
that's kind of reflecting into the whole piece our resin is not that yellow it's just because of that
crappy base layer this was attempt number two and I decided to do nothing literally nothing to the
shoe and the there's no bubbles it this was the clearest pour we did but there was some sorry some
bleed out from the laces you can see that black wispiness that kind of looks like smoke in there
so I wasn't happy with that either so that would be another fail two fails so then number three
I thought okay this one here that I sealed with epoxy, I did that by rubbing it all on
and it made it drain down so I figured that if we just sprayed the shoe
um with polyurethane it should work a lot better so that's what we did here there even though it's
a black sole you can see there was none of the darker black dye that got on it but it was a
huge mess with bubbles I have no idea why the polyurethane reacted so poorly with the epoxy
but this was our third test and it was actually the worst out of all of them
so after seeing these three failures uh we kind of just decided that this one here was the best
result doing nothing to the shoe and thankfully when it came to the $50,000 shoe it went even
better than our test so there was a lot of trial and error but that's how we got there
and these were all really expensive test pieces yes yeah I don't know if you guys have heard
of the shoe brand before George really hard to get a hold of really rare and then we also had mechs
you've probably never even heard of it it's so exclusive um
yeah they really really we spent a lot of money on these tests
great Charlie so thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next week