Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from The Black Forest Wood Company, Charlie is back for those of
you who missed them this week we are going to be showing you the build and delivery for a river
rock dining table in figured maple we're also going to do a claro walnut extension table that
has leaves that go on the end so that's the first time we've ever done something like that and we
also had about seventy five thousand dollars worth of live edge would show up at our shop
charcuterie boards dining table slabs coffee table slabs a whole bunch of stuff so i hope you
guys enjoy this week's video charlie really wanted me to ask you guys to like comment and subscribe
because he actually gets a treat every time that you guys do any of that he gets a treat so
if you care about charlie do those things and i hope you guys enjoy the video so we're also
doing two pours here this one is going to get a base layer today for river rocks on that one
and the other one is a claro walnut piece which is getting caribbean blue epoxy in it
base pour commence so when we do one of our river rock pours the first thing that we have to do
is put a base layer down and we still use our deep resin for that but we only pour it you know
between half an inch to maybe an inch thick at the most and we also don't let it fully cure before
we add our rocks in after so we pour this first layer in and we leave it for maybe two to three
days just so that it's it's soft to the touch but it's not sticking to your finger at that
point we can then place our rocks in without worrying about them like sinking in too far
and touching the bottom of our table and after the rocks are in obviously we put in our final layer
the the biggest purpose though of this base layer is just to protect our cutters when we surface
that bottom side of the table we have had some bad experiences with that where we have went through
and hit rocks and we've even had to cut rocks with a track saw so we'll we'll put a little link on
the screen right now so you guys can go watch that and see how that turns out now this is another
dining table that we're working on this one's a little bit different than what we've done before
in that it has some leaf extensions on there so we pour the table all as one in its full extended
size and then after it's cured we're actually going to cut those ends off and we'll show kind
of our extension process later in the video but i do want to give a shout out to blacktail studio
because he is the one that we learned this method for the extensions on this port here that we're
doing this is you can see in the background we actually did it on the same day as our base layer
so we will we will leave these to sit and now it's about i think between three and five
around there days later that we're doing this second layer if you do end up going too long
uh with your base layer you can actually sand it so if it does get too hard just sand it and
that'll give you the same effect and we've pretty much covered this whole bottom surface in rocks
and now we're casting again with our black forest deep resin another thing you'll see on the edge
of the screen is that we haven't went tight to the outside of the mold with the rocks that's
so when we go to size this table we can cut them off again without having to cut through any rocks
and then for the river rock table, it actually happened to be a local client so we got the
pleasure of going to deliver this one um so we just got everything in the back of the truck here
spencer actually was transported in the truck with the table just to keep it safe during the journey
and these river rock tables one thing about them is they're always much heavier than you'd expect
them to be because they're just packed with rocks so even though this is only about a seven-foot
table it feels like a 10 or a 12-foot table as sauger runs around to grab the other side
so now we head back to the shop and we're just putting the finishing touches on our extension
table with the leafs in it so all that we've done here to to accomplish this is use threaded
inserts and aluminum t-slot so we've drilled some holes in the top of the aluminum t-slot so that
we can actually put a threaded insert through it and into the insert that's in the table so
ben's just drilling out for those right now and installing them so these are the rampa
inserts and we do sell them on our website so we'll put a link in the description below
and those are the same rampant bolts so you can see how he's just leaving the head sticking out
a little bit and now that t slot in the groove in the bottom slides right over those inserts as you
can see and then there's holes in the top of the the t-slot that we can tighten those inserts and
secure this t-slot in place and then we've got the same matching thing going on on the other
end on the actual extension that can just slide into those t-slots as well and secure everything
and a lot of you probably already know but we might get asked the finish on this piece is our
black forest furniture oil topped off with our black four ceramics and here you go you get to
see that function of the t-slot and he's going to put it back on now now obviously when the
extensions aren't in use you just loosen those t-slots off and put those in storage as well
but really nice way to add some extension to your resin river table
all right everyone so we're just getting our photos done of this clairol walnut dining
table with leaf extensions on it so this is actually the first table that we've ever done
with the leaf extensions and i got to give a shout out to blacktail studio because he is the person
that we got the idea from for this hardware style of how we've attached these leafs on
so it's just this aluminum channel and then we've got threaded inserts that kind of slide in so you
can loosen those off pull the leaves on put them pull the leaves off put them back on whatever you
want to do and then we've got solid steel legs from forge 53 i got a bit of an angle in them
as you guys can see but overall this piece turned out awesome so they can have their big set up for
larger gatherings there's smaller ones for other gatherings but yeah very excited to get this to
the client and hopefully we'll get some photos in place and then right over here just as we're doing
this we have this giant truckload of material that showed up from our supplier out in ontario
so there's charcuterie stock there's cookies there's table stock there's coffee table stock
pretty much a big mix of mostly walnut in here that we're very excited to to see what we got
well I hope you guys enjoyed seeing everything that we had going on at the shop this week a
little bit of a random video we had a few different things in there but we're still working
on that big maple burl furniture package so we want to wait till we have a little
bit more progress to post again about that and if you guys want to win an art piece from the
offcuts of that job go check out last week's video all we ask you to do is guess the price
of the furniture package we're making and whoever gets the closest wins a piece of
wall art from that so again go check that out leave your guesses i hope you guys win
and next week i guess i'll give a teaser if you've watched all the way to the end we've
got a pivot door coming up a giant walnut pivot door so start your comment with the word pivot
and we will know you watched until the end and we'll be sure to respond to you guys so
thank you for watching to the end and we will see you next week peace sit down speak speak speak up
good boy good boy charlie