The finish on this table got messed up two different times but not from what you might
expect. We're starting off with two slabs of salvaged Canadian black walnut and as always
We begin by debarking the pieces so not only are we peeling off the large chunks of bark but then
we go at the edge with a wire wheel to remove that cambium layer that's on the edge of the tree when
we were first starting off with these River tables like six or seven years ago our first few ports we
never removed the bark and like my third pour ever I remember it was Walnut had lots of bark
in it I stuck it in the planer as one piece and it came out the other side is three with a chunk
of resin with bark stuck on either Edge so I redid the pour without doing anything to the pieces of
wood planed it again and it still happened but this time there was that thin skin of cambium so
that's how we learned like seven years ago that it's very important to remove all of your bark
from there, we're using our skill-saw to cut these slabs down to their size so that they fit in the
mold this client has requested a river tape table so that consists of the pieces of wood being on
the outside edge of the table and we turn those live edges in to face each other just to play
off the negative space created by the two pieces of wood so once we've got the pieces cut down to
their final sides and flattened to their rough thickness we can get them lifted into the mold
this is always a time we're very fortunate to have a shop full of guys because if we had to
lift these in all by ourselves it wouldn't be as easy we've done it before but we definitely
appreciate our guys in a time like this and it's like we've done this a couple times before or
something because the slabs actually went in on their first try and I'm not making a joke we've
we've actually more often than we'd like to admit have to recut these two or three times and now we
can begin mixing up the resin for our base layer so this resin has quickly become coined Manganiello
blue because it's what Joe used for the base layer in his table and it's made using all of our black
forest pigments so we use royal blue evening Sunset and steel gray and it's a pretty even
mixture of those three pigments and that will give you this really rich dark blue color
this is only going to be poured as a base layer so we're going about a half an inch deep with this
pour and once it's cured we're going to come along and pour a clear layer over top of it there's a
few reasons why we do this the first and most obvious one being is that it allows our client
to achieve the desired color that they're after but because we're only pouring it half an inch
thick it also allows them to see the Live Edge through the pore if we were to pour this same
colour the full thickness you might still see some of the outline of that live Edge but you're not
going to see any of the detail and then the final thing that it does is it's also going to hide the
mounting plates for the legs that we're putting on this table this client has selected our standard
square steel frames that we offer and what those consist of is three-quarter-inch by four inch
steel welded up into a square and then there's a quarter-inch top plate that goes across those legs
so if we didn't have this opaque layer on there you would see that through your pore which is not
necessarily a bad look we've built many tables like it but not every client is going to want
to see that after curing for one week in the mould we can come along and get this piece popped out
of the form so with our black foresty present no matter the thickness seven days is very standard
for a cure time sometimes it could cure quicker if you have too warm of an environment and if
you're too cold like below 15 degrees Celsius you can extremely delay The Cure but even in
a cold environment you're never going to fully prevent it once that temperature comes back up
it will cure just like normal then we can get the piece lifted downstairs using our forklift we can
get all our guides again to get this lifted onto our CNC machine and now we can remove that excess
layer of resin that was left from our pore we often get questions about why we pour this excess
layer of resin and a lot of people think that it's wasteful but we do have a reason for it by pouring
this excess layer all at once it allows us to fill in a majority of the cracks and voids in a single
shot being that we're a manufacturing business and we're not doing this as a hobby in our spare time
one of our biggest costs is labor so by doing that over poor we save our guys time of having
to go back on that slab and individually fill everything in all at once yes we do have to spend
a little bit more money on epoxy but that ends up being cheaper than the extra labor once we've
got the piece flattened on our CNC and through the drum sander we can then take our track saw
and cut this piece down to its final size so with this track saw here it's a little bit underpowered
and we do end up having to take multiple passes to ensure we get a clean cut but it is nice and that
we don't have to lift this table onto our panel so we can keep it where it is then once everything's
down to size we can use our black forest coat thin resin and Black Forest CA glues to fill in any of
those imperfections that we didn't get with that initial overpour then we're using a palm router
with a 45 degree bevel bit just to soften all the edges on this table we do offer various different
Edge treatments but the 45 degree chamfer tends to be the most popular one from there we can head off
to Gecko and begin applying the acrylic urethane finish on this piece this is where the problems
came in with this table we ended up having to get this table resprayed I think it was two different
times which is challenging for us you know not only does our customer end up having to wait
longer which we then have to explain that to them but it also affects the cash flow of the business
you know like I said earlier this for us isn't just a hobby we've got 20 people that we employ
and they all expect a paycheck every two weeks so if the table that they were working on doesn't get
finished in time it can get stressful you know we've never had our guys ever have to go without
a paycheck and they never will we will always be the last ones to get paid but we need to ensure
that we have good production flow so things are less stressful on us and easier financially so
immediately after spraying this coat the guy who sprayed it said that he messed it up so
even though it looks pretty good here on camera all of that finish ended up having to get sanded
off but we did get to see Arlo so that was nice so now we didn't get any content for this film
but we're going to put some photos up on the screen here right now of the next issue with
the finish that we had after he sanded that all off so the one on this side of the screen here is
a small about toonie size dent in the edge of the table there's my Canadian showing through toonies
a Canadian coin it's about that big so that was something that Jeco unfortunately did you know
everything else looked perfect besides one other spot and then there was this dent on the edge on
the other side is that other spot I mentioned this is something that we didn't even notice our client
actually noticed when they came in and did the quality control as they were running their fingers
across the top, they felt this bump this almost sharp point and there was just a little dust nib
that got trapped in the finish and it was going to be enough so that if you were sliding a plate over
it or a gloss over it it would actually cause it to bounce so it seems like a really small detail
and maybe like we're being too picky but with the price that we're demanding for these pieces and
what our clients are paying we need to make sure we're giving them absolute perfection so back to
the finishers it went so finally third time's the charm right they got it all perfect we can
get the table wrapped up and take it back to our shop to put the ceramic coating on which is going
to be very important in this case because you will see why in a little bit something happened when we
were taking photos of this piece so our ceramic coating is a product that's designed to go over
an existing finish whether it be a sprayed acrylic urethane like you're seeing here or an oil-based
finish like our black forest for Furniture oil Rubio osmo anything like that it essentially
gives you a small protective layer that makes your surface hydrophobic so all the water beads off
and it greatly increases the scratch resistance once we've got that ceramic coating done we can
put those square steel frames that I mentioned earlier onto the table and here you can also see
that top plate spanning across the resin where now it's going to be completely hidden because of the
base layer you'll also notice on these legs that are holes are slotted that is something else that
we do intentionally it's something that accounts for the seasonal expansion and contraction of the
wood large wooden slabs like this can move up to an eighth of an inch per foot of wood so in this
case it's about a four foot wide table there's about two to three feet of wood there might be
3 8 of an inch expansion and contraction between the most humid time of year and the driest time
of year so those slotted holes just let that table move freely without causing any tension
then we can get the piece downstairs outside wide and begin getting ready to take our photographs
on the school bus that was all I would do
we have a part yeah
good job okay
I need to let a baby walk all over our table so since we don't get the pleasure of delivering this
piece we're simply going to be taking it to the designers Warehouse who then they're going to go
and set it up we decided that we would set this table up outside to get some nice natural light
for the photos so we slowly lift it on with a forklift and then we can use our threaded
inserts to secure those legs into place now here is where something kind of went wrong it started
thundering and it started raining well we still had the table outside but it ended up being the
perfect time to showcase the hydrophobic effect that our ceramic creates now this is probably
what you're expecting would have screwed up our table but it wasn't because like I said we have
that ceramic on there so what it essentially does is it just allows the water to bead up on
the surface instead of laying flat and spreading out so not only does it prevent it from absorbing
into any of the pores but it makes the cleanup of that much much easier so here you can see all
those beads of water laying flat and this is some something we've never actually done before is blow
them around and it's quite satisfying because they roll around this on the surface like little glass
marbles essentially and here you can see is when you go to wipe it off instead of leaving some big
streak of water they just fall right off onto the microfiber and finally in recap here's a look at
the finished product so again our client selected Salvage Canadian black walnut slabs a Manganiello
blue base layer and solid steel square frames to support the table top we really hope that
you guys enjoyed this video we're doing our best to put as much effort as we possibly can into all
these build videos as I'm sure a lot of you have noticed we've really focused on the full start to
finish processes and we have a lot of really cool builds coming up here in the future one
that stands out is a job down in Salt Lake City it consists of a bed a dining table a desk two
benches and a piece of wall art and the client is having us go down to deliver everything so
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