Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from the Black Forest Wood Company this week we're going
to be completing a large furniture package for our client down in Texas I hope you guys enjoy this
process and if you can leave a like that really means a lot to us okay so now that we're back
from BC we had our trip you guys saw Gerry hooked us up with a bunch of leaves so what we have to do
now is actually press them all out and iron them out to dry them off we got to do it pretty soon as
well because you can see they're already kind of starting to mold and the reason we're doing this
is we're actually going to be casting these in the river of our client's table and in the legs
as well so it should be pretty cool okay so then our process is we've got regular paper on the
inside two sheets of it with the leaves in between then we have wax paper and then once you've ironed
them they're nice and dry they are very fragile so you have to be careful basically just kind
of feels like a thin paper and it maintains all the colour in them too so like we've got green
ones yellow ones some nice Reds kinda and we've got that whole pile there to dry off foreign
so after leaving the leaves to dry for literally like two years almost I think it was it's time to
put this table together and do the pour so we're doing a metallic red base layer in this piece kind
of to go for that Canadian theme that's why the client selected this colour and it's kind of the
same red that we did in our full send table if you guys watched that video we did a while back
we are using a little bit of liquid dye in here as well we're using the Bordeaux colour effects
dye just to kind of make it a bit more intense and we're pouring this base layer about half an
inch to three-quarters of an inch thick we want it to be opaque so that you can't see any light
through and we do need to have it be thick enough as well so that when we machine off
on the bottom side we're not making it too thin and exposing back through that base layer and
what we're pouring here are actually the legs for the table unfortunately we missed some of
the pores for the tabletop but the legs have more resin anyway so it makes for a cooler video
and this piece here that we're pouring is actually both of the legs so after this is done we're going
to cut this piece in half for length and it's going to give us both of our legs for this table
once that base layer is in we placed the leaves down and then what we're doing now is just adding
a really thin layer to kind of secure them in place and stop them from moving and then once
this thin layer has cured we can go ahead and add in our final top layer to finish the casting
will talk John will talk I will but I don't want to
I have no idea that everyone else has to hear me
talk like that I feel bad for everyone I've ever talked to
oh so it's out it just doesn't look like it is and this client is actually ordering two
tables from us so this one's a little bit more tame and I guess you could say uh a more normal
design this is going to be for his main home down in Texas the other Canadian theme table
is actually for his cabin and that's just kind of a homage to his Canadian Heritage so for this
main home table we're just doing a tinted black resin same thing though it's still going to have
those matching River legs and this is actually the first time we've done River Lakes in this
style we've Incorporated resin into some coffee table bases before but nothing quite like this
so it's pretty exciting for us whenever we get to try new designs like this foreign
and once the piece is de-moulded we take it down to our Avid CNC for flattening one thing I should
mention for flattening too it's always best to try and get it flattened as soon after that seven days
as you can because the longer you leave it the harder it gets and the more brittle the resin
becomes and sometimes you can even get chip out so once the pieces are flat then we take it over to
our sliding panel saw to actually cut everything to size so the first thing that Spencer's doing
here is ripping the width on these pieces to make sure that they're going to fit in the plates that
are going to mount these legs to the underside of the table and then once that's done we can rotate
this piece and actually cut the whole slab in half to give us the two separate legs and now
we are completing the exact same process for the Canadian version of the table legs
so what you're looking at here is actually all of the components of the table sitting together
so we've got the Live Edge top as you can see and the two River legs once we're done that then it's
time to actually route out the recesses for our mounting plates to go in so we usually kind of
end up having to do these by hand you know we could probably make a unique jig for each piece
but we end up just marking it out drawing the shape on routing up close to the line and then
we'll just use a chisel oftentimes to square out those corners and get everything straight
now unfortunately Jeco did the spray finishing for these pieces on the weekend when we were not
there but we did manage to capture some of the ceramic coating process so our ceramic coating
can actually be used over any type of finish we use it over our oil-based finishes and our
polyurethane-based finishes because no matter what the underneath base coat is it is always going to
add water protection stain protection chemical resistance it's going to make it hydrophobic
and it's just going to give a slick feel to the entire surface so we put it on literally every
single piece we do we were hoping that our top plates would fit but it looks like there was
a little discrepancy and it was only like one millimetre out so what Jack is doing here right
now is he's just pairing it off with the Chisel and that's going to allow those legs to slide
on perfectly people think we're Woodworkers but we're actually chemists I know that's so funny
look at the bags under the surprise she's so tired of me so I'm what I'm not you should
be in like the movies I should be in the movies, I should be in the movies? I'm Seth Rogen
and that laugh has made him hundreds of millions of dollars and I'm so jealous
come on come on what's going on you know you want to it's good you want to yeah punch it
be ready to leave that's in the resin
like you every time he took it out all the time
so we gotta lift up yeah sure you got room there we're good we're here all
right so two guys support the legs we're gonna have to we can't just
lift it we can't just flip it straight over we're going to have to lift it up
this front corner I'll take the bottom corner yeah
sorry that's what I meant I was like roll it damn
it sink backwards I don't think we want it right here right here
it's fine and towards the shop
I got the card okay all right and up oh that was heavier than I thought it was gonna be good
all right are we going that way I have 90. yeah thank you
well there we are the tables are all finished up so again these are California Clara Walnut
both of them and the legs are actually cut from the same tree as the slabs that were used in the
tops here so these turned out absolutely perfectly I hope our client likes it as
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