Hey everyone it's Dylan from The Black Forest Wood Company this week we're
going to be letting you guys know what's been going on with the table for Joe Manganiello and
why we haven't delivered it yet so here's a quick recap on the piece up until now so up until this
point Joe has selected an incredible piece of bastogne walnut we cut the piece to size to form
the river we placed it in the mould and then we did a midnight blue metallic base layer for his table
the reason for the base layer so that we can see those beautiful live edges on the piece
and then once that's cured we went ahead and topped it off with two more inches of our black
forest deep resin then it was on to the avid cnc machine for flattening to take off all of that
excess epoxy and then we also constructed a custom height solid blackened ash x-space for him we then
did a shusuki band finish which is where you char the outside surface of the wood and then we stain
it black the reason for doing the charring and the staining is the charring is actually what gives
texture to the wood and burns away the softer sections whereas the black is what's going to
give it that consistent color all the way around so we have standard bases that we usually offer to
our clients but joe happens to be six foot five so he needed something a little taller than standard
so I think the total table height here is about 32 or 33 inches where the standard would be 30 inches
and then kind of bring it down rest it and then kind of walk it over that way you're not ever
taking the full weight right so this table is massive i think it's like 12 feet by six feet
and there's a ton of resin in it this top is probably close to a thousand pounds so we need
our entire crew and then some to even be able to lift this and move it so we're at gecko they had
us come down and then we're using some of jekyll's guys too to actually get this piece flipped over
and that was an important consideration when constructing the base as well we had to make sure
that it was actually going to be able to support this top and if i'm being completely honest we
don't know that it's going to support this top yet because we haven't had a chance to fit it on the
base so that could be another point of contention on this build when we get this table back to the
shop in a couple weeks well we'll find out if the base is even going to work or not and then here
is the first coat of spraying happening on this piece so this is the sealer coat gecko's using
an acrylic year thing from savam and it's it's a two-part catalyzed product and it's incredible it
is super durable highly scratch-resistant i think in terms of liquid resistance, it's rated all the
way up to sulfuric acid so I don't know too many scenarios where you're going to get sulfuric acid
on your table but should it ever happen use the acrylic urethane from Jeco and you're covered
so after the sealer coat which is essentially just to close off all the pores in the wood
this is the actual two-part catalyzed acrylic urethane so this is what's going to give us
the protection here uh he did do a light sand before he went and applied this coat
but now I think they end up building two or three coats of this top coat here
this looks hazy
because this didn't look this hazy when it was poured this looked clear when it was poured
like even the wood doesn't like it doesn't look as brilliant right
and the colours are all like muted down very clearly, it definitely didn't go looking like this
too many layers of sprays yeah let's see yeah that's like glass yeah I mean obviously we
sanded it so it's not going to be that clear yeah but it's it's definitely more clear than this
you don't wanna build it up too much
no, we don't
because if you build, it goes cloudy
it looks like that's already what's happening like the whole top looks
like when we compare it to how it looked after the pour and now like it's super cloudy right
now even when we've been here previous times it's more cloudy than it was before
so we're losing a lot of that detail so it's almost like we've got too many coats on there now
and it feels rough it's yeah like venus right like if you compare that to
yeah like when it was poured that's the clarity we had before yeah so we've lost
that and then so as you can tell from the previous clips we were a little stressed out
what's happened here is first of all i want to say it's our fault because we left this table
here too long gecko did nothing wrong here we weren't quite ready to bring this table back
and it ended up getting damaged while it was staying here at jecko's which is natural you
know people come into their shop they see this beautiful table the first thing they
want to do is touch it like i'm doing right now i can't even help myself from doing it
that ended up in some small micro scratches and damage that we didn't want to send to joe so jeko
re-sprayed the table something that happens with polyurethane though when you add too many coats
is it goes cloudy so that's what we're what we're dealing with here now we've got a gorgeous finish
that is going to protect perfectly except it's too thick and it's coming out cloudy so
unfortunately that's probably going to mean this table is getting sanded back down
all the way to the raw wood which sucks it's a lot of work and it's just very unfortunate because
when we came the first time gekko had it looking absolutely perfectly but that's
that's kind of the nature of custom work we deal with this all the time
stuff happens and now we've got to go back to square one on finishing and get this redone
so good thing we have time um but there's a lot more work and we got to do it all over
uh the reason that we have not delivered it yet is because joe's space is not quite ready for it uh
he is building i'm sure a very extravagant room for this table to live in he's actually saying
that like the room has been designed around this table so he needs a little bit more time to get
that prepped and ready to actually take delivery of this but we've been in contact with joe
and it looks like sometime around the end of the summer we're going to be ready for it so we're
going to make a big trip out of it we're going to go and do this obviously we'll show the video
of the delivery but then we're also going to go see our good friend daniel at geoveneer and we'll
do a full video there because we've got like 20 slabs on hold with him that he's being quite kind
to do for us but that's where this piece is at you guys will probably see it again shortly when we're
putting on the ceramic coating and assembling the base and then the final video will be the delivery