Hey everyone it's Dylan
and Jo we're back again for another week here in the shop um we are this week we're
actually going to be building our new and improved dining chair so i'm gonna put the
3d augmented reality rendering that we made for our client on the screen right now
we actually got a job uh for five of these chairs that we're building for him and we're also doing
five bar stools but we're just going to look at the dining chairs right now and if you guys
have been watching us for a little bit you know we've already done a dining chair that we designed
um and of course the compressor goes on but we weren't a hundred percent happy with how those
turned out so this is sort of the the new and improved version so i hope you guys enjoy it okay
everybody here we go monday labor day karen canada chair make a day at the black forest wood company
just gonna share with you guys a little bit of our high-tech
chair making joinery that we employ a construction design of all our custom components for our chairs
all programs cnc machine look at this bad boy here g-code uh generated none other than by moi
uh that's the old guy and uh i've got a program to cut all the maloof joinery required for this
custom chair client specification we're building a mock-up and uh ready to go through with the
programming here so i'm gonna do my best to follow this through there's uh always quite a challenge
coming up with all the parts pieces components required to try and apply our level of automation
with our vse rover a cnc machine celebrating its 12th anniversary now it keeps pumping out the
parts you guys i'm ready to hit the go button uh wish me luck and we'll see how this goes
so this is referred to as stepping your cut down that's in five vertical steps the command
for the tool is to go through the piece of wood three mils in the end on its last cut
the telephone passes the machine automatically calculates its
steps down three steps down two steps down CNC programming very basic x y and z
lots of fun though unbelievable what you can accomplish with a little bit of automation
so we're just gonna do a preliminary assembly on our new chair style and design here we won't
be gluing it together we'll be screwing everything together uh so john and I are gonna give it a shot
here one piece at a time what should we do should we start with the back legs first you're done
okay
but I wanted to see if my ass fits in there we actually have to make the armchair
wider but sit in that I think the armchair is going to have to be wider
skinny guys yeah i guess i'm not very big right yeah so how does it fit on you what
are you trying to say well you're a big burly muscular guy yeah that's what i thought yeah
but if i had a big fat ass like this yeah you wouldn't be sitting in the armchair in order
to change the width if we have to go wider yeah like that's this piece of wood longer that piece
of wood longer yeah but if you have to go wider this is going to be the paint in the ass piece
of wood to make then it's completely different completely the radius is going to be different
and everything like you want it to come up like that right like so the slats kind of follow your
your spine but we don't have chairs that have that this is what we're struggling with we're
trying to figure it out that have those curves last also have a curved back leg ours is straight
so we haven't got enough room to make enough of a curve in it it might just have to be super slight
like half inch or three quarters of an inch each way
so we tell what you got here brad well we've got our second prototype now uh for our dining
room chair styles and uh we're really quite excited we come up with some really unique ideas
uh for chair construction and quality of course is number one but this is our potential new armchair
prototype made out of solid walnut a few refined details yet to go with that and
here's our previous chair that we did uh we've got a little bit wider stance on the front here
and uh yeah we're here at uh timeless upholstery looking at getting a nice quality uh upholstery
job done yeah and this is getting the the curved back you're right on us yeah the slots are
in production and we just got to finish the machining process and and go forward yeah probably
next week you guys might get to see this thing a little bit more put together yeah we'll probably
have the slots in by then yeah yeah okay let's head on in where does most your business come from
mostly word of mouth like yeah where the mountain is yeah i've been doing this now for 21 years um
so what you started when you were seven yeah sixteen yeah
you guys know how it is right now oh yeah snowballs right yeah there you go yeah one thing
i'd like to ask can i get a piece of two-inch foam that you would use to put on that seat yeah just
so i can sit on it and see if i've got like i'm not a chair maker right so we're kind of working
on chairs i want to make sure my armrests are the right height okay do something about that big just
get on if you got anything yeah so this one um yeah two inch would be fine because then you're
at a standard uh seat height of around 18 inches i lowered it one inch compared to the other one
dylan yeah you did yeah with a two inch hole this is a standard height okay my arm rest does that
height seem good for you with the two inch foam you're 25 usually nine minus two yep that's about
uh you know if you have a good six to eight inches here so that's seven i got right now
yeah if you want to get a little more luxurious with the seating um as opposed to just putting
two inches of foam on a plywood seat yeah we you could cut this out and then we web it okay then
put the foam and then you have a little more guilt okay okay this seems a little bit soft
yeah um i mean it's all this is all preference right yeah yeah i'll get a few
a few samples but especially like with a leather you want you want something that gives a little
bit more importance well that's up by the string bake airport yeah you know bottom out on this one
yeah that's nice yeah josh bring up the point how like the foam's going to compress over time
so eventually you will hit bottom whereas if we had the open bottom with the webbing it still
gives you the that comfort ring let me take this guy all right and i'll let you know when it's
done and we'll go from there have a great weekend josh thank you man right here we've got these two
slabs well it actually was one slab of cottonwood burl um this is actually an off cut from one of
the previous dining tables we already did so we'll kind of put that on the screen right now
and this is going to be for a desk for a client i think she's in california or something
and that's something we've kind of noticed this year ever since you know the whole covent thing
struck um conference table sales went down and desk sales went way up like we've been doing
way more desks this year than we did last year and i can only think it's because there's so
many people working from home so this should be a really really unique one when it's done and we're
doing a smoky gray resin inside of it so we got black diamond and black onyx and we're just doing
like a very small portion in the cap because we don't actually measure things because we're dumb
speak for yourself
we are pretty pleased with the way those chairs are coming together i think
timeless uh is gonna do a pretty good job of the upholstery for us
and right now we're in the poor room we got all the boys in here right now and we are
mixing up for what one two three four four pours uh this is going to be a bright red conference
table these are some blue coffee table legs and then this is a layered pore it's gonna
be a dining table so we're doing solid black on the bottom and then just like a smoky grey
over the top so you guys will see that next week, uh but I hope you guys enjoyed see ya