Hey everyone, it's Dylan from the Black Forest Wood Company, this week we're going to be taking
a closer look at the shaper so that thing is basically a handheld CNC if you guys are
woodworkers you're probably very very fascinated by this tool I know we were because we can do
inlays and all kinds of intricate things that we couldn't do before Jo's in the background dancing
okay so we're going to show you guys the shaper and Spencer's going to kind of explain how to use it
we're going to be finishing a buckeye burl and then Brad is going to show you guys his new base
design that he has come up with, it was already a big hit on Instagram you guys really liked it so
but we'll see what you guys on youtube think and uh before the video starts,
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so the table that you just saw Jo finish, that's the buckeye burl coffee table and then
Spencer and Ben right now are working on gluing up the legs for that so these are in solid quarter
sawn white oak same kind of standard design we do for a lot of our legs it's just four pieces
of wood glued up with our domino and then the top piece has a little six mil reveal it's not on
there yet we're going to put that on after but it actually kind of gives the tables a floating look
I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was a baller
blindly gluing, gluing blindly
Ben: "I mean to be fair Spencer, if you were a bit taller
you probably still wouldn't make it still wouldn't make it to the NBA"
Spencer: "I still wouldn't reach."
DQ coming in clutch
Ooohhh! bye bye glue!
well we had uh one of our good buddies Griffels Custom come in today with
this uh super cool piece we're gonna be using our new toy on the Shaper Origin um we're
gonna be uh cutting an inspirational message into this piece so we're gonna get our tape and put it
on here so we can create our art space
yeah they don't even have to be like they can kind of be
skewed set this on here yeah so now it does like a scan so you can kind of see like
in there oh wow and everything so you start the scan and it like creates the art space
finish the scan so now over my tape there's some of the wood, back to the resin
and so this is where you could like if you wanted a certain spot for that to be put like you could
pinpoint where you want and then when you go to design you set it right on that mark that you make
or it senses the edge and so you sense this edge and then here and it creates like a square
like on a grid and so it'll snap to the grid wherever you want to put it
yeah something like that something like that okay so yeah you might have to do
something in Illustrator then like actually, design it in Illustrator
I'm just gonna open up Adobe Illustrator right now and uh come up with a design what's that well even
like this crazy looking one is kind of cool oh yeah then we have to save it as an SVG file in
order for the shaper to be able to use it i don't even own a computer so i don't know all right
so now we should be able to go to import
and import it's right there that we just designed and now we can just place that where we want it
300 wide so we need to set the depth to where it can touch the edge
so that's the depth we want to set so now go to the front edge
go to the other side
and then now we go to this edge
so now it snaps to like there's every two millimetres there's like a box that we can set it
to gonna import that again
you do all the digital work right yeah so I used to do graphic design
before I worked here and actually had like no woodworking experience
now I know how to do cool stuff like this that's amazing yeah
so now you can see how like that little line is smaller okay so that's the very bottom of it there
and then so about there so you can see how this is red yep that's
meaning that there's not enough like tape for it to read I unplugged it I didn't save anything but
as long as this tape is still on there you could leave this for like six years place this thing
back on here and it'll scan and remember what this project was because each time you lay the
tape down yeah it's unique to you the way that you lay it and the machine will pick up on that
yep
do the other even though it's two-sided I flipped it over and I thought oh
that's gonna be the same piece so we milled the same piece the routering is the exact same on
both pieces it is everything's the same on both pieces so it's quite cool can we slide these on
so we were also thinking that we might actually release some plans for this this base style here
um just some simple drawings so you guys could build that and then maybe even doing like a full
in-depth video on this so that you guys could learn how to build this so definitely let us
know if that's something you guys would want to see
alright well I hope you guys enjoyed seeing
that Shaper we do have them on our website so if you go down in the description you can order one
we can ship them or there's in-store pickup and then before we sign off we want to show
you kind of the progress on the new bay so brad and john have been working away
on framing up this wall so it's it's a hallway for our bathroom but it's also going to kind
of have the podcast studio up there so there is a lot more room in there now
let's go take a quick look before we sign off here we go here's the space we're probably gonna
put couch or chairs in this corner uh, Haley will be over there but yeah it's uh john from that line
it's coming along we're over 75 and a quarter and let us know if there is any other woodworkers that
you guys think that we should have on our podcast because we are looking for people to have on
maybe Jo we could have Jo on
I'm not that important
okay see you guys