here we are, we're just at the Calgary Airport right now we just got in, our flight leaves to
LA I think 9:55 and so we're actually what we're doing on this trip is I don't know if you guys
know about them you may follow them on Instagram there is a company called GL Veneer and we are
going to be going to see their facilities check out the shop and hopefully pick out some really
nice wood that we can come back and bring build some furniture it up and create a new partnership
with these supplies I think we're here we almost walked by our gate but that's the plan we're all
about creating a partnership so we'll see you guys when we're down there well it's our second
day here in LA right now we're Daniel there he is right there in his truck yeah he's here to pick
us up we're heading off to GL Veneer and should be a fun day should be a good fun day hey Daniel sup
guys hey mornin morning we're excited heading off to GL Veneer here we go let's get on in
thank you did yeah
this is awesome here we are yeah GL Veneer yeah that looks good already
yeah isn't that freaky, look at the surfboards I saw these at the Atlanta show, these surfboards. These ones? I think so yeah, I'll have to ask him
The Atlanta show 10 years ago. "Wow"
Yeah cause the whole thing was set up, there was this place with all these surfboards set up showing off
Look at that ping, must be redwood burl or something
it's just freaky
look at the lacewood
is that Mappa or something?, I'll recognize it's gonna be like a wood overload
Oh and there's the octopus
Wow look at that thing
that's just incredible
How long did it take the artist to create this?
I think it was 6-8 months
okay yeah, a reasonable amount of time yeah it didn't have a base
so we had to get it laser levelled and the base ended up costing almost as much as the piece. Really?
Cause we have a big grid crane going over it, drove it to Vegas
Now it's going to Ontario yeah so yeah needs to be able to make the journey wow these are
definitely some of the biggest burls that I have ever seen in my life this is crazy
Wow oh my god
that's nice and thick some of those too
oh we'd like that whole pile
This piece is gonna be an outdoor shower. really really you see you guys get all the unique cuts that you can do stuff like that right yeah
You have to have the person who has the vision to see it through. We can recommend a use for something
it really has to come from the person who sees it, yeah I want to do that with that piece
Oh
Here's this willow log this is willow. This is willow eh?
there's seven slabs there were about 12. But this has some pretty stuff in it too
and the voids are one would be really neat yeah like little lakes and ponds in there
This where you'll really have fun!
Ohhhhhh man! What!
Something like this for you guys, like cutting end cuts, making end cuts. The stuff out here, really you guys have the most use for it, of the character wood.
whoa
that's giant! It's Oregon walnut
man what are you guys doing with that?
Oh that'll be a slabber yeah you're gonna slab that up?
big stuff here, of that same tree
really that's from it eh?
that is crazy
there's one of the hi-graphs there it is so that's where the English kind of
is that the lighter colour bark is the English walnut so there they are right
look at these things yeah so we want one of these yeah, or a couple yeah yeah
a load of logs! it's almost like we staged this for you. We don't get logs every day
There we go, load of logs showing up, yeah so that truck is just delivering a
a big load it's a really really crazy stuff here honestly like the size of these pieces
of wood like check this thing out I just stumbled upon, can you believe that. Oh and the textures and the grain
this is just eye candy for us so one of the most popular species that we actually ever
brought in was these Claro walnut flats that had English walnut grafted on the top and they've
got just those right here so there's one, two, three, four. Fifth one back there we're thinking
and we're gonna buy this guy so it's actually two different species super burly and just one of
our favourite kinds of woods that we've ever got to work with
So this is what we've slabbed everything in our inventory on. oh really
an actual carriage with the bars is inside, and it rides along these rails here.
So we have extensions we can put on it. We can cut up to 25km on this mill
we put the extensions for height too
So this can only cut a 7ft tall, I think it's actually 6ft diameter log
okay. this mill, which is the new mill
the operator stands right there, rides back and forth
We'll be able to cut this log in half
everywhere you look it's just something to see
I like standing quiet bringing people back here. Letting the ideas come flowing
we're back outside here yeah we kind of did a full circle like Daniel was just saying
and now we've got some of our slabs pulled out that we we've been wanting to look at
okay so there's that one right, I'm going to send that to my customer right now
what are these what do we got well we got 20-foot long Claro walnut slabs up to
to about almost six feet wide these are absolutely amazing
They have some deep grain them
the figure, the size, the length is absolutely incredible here. Yeah yeah this we we look at material like this here and our
minds just start racing with all the different possibilities and stuff we can do like these
are some of the biggest slabs I've ever seen the figure in them like let me just let me give you
guys some close-ups of this look it looks like water like ripples and water on this and then
these inclusions now most people would see an inclusion like this and they wouldn't want it
whereas for us we see stuff like that and it's even better because we can fill it and we can
turn it into a feature so we are just, our jaws are on the floor I had to go run and grab the
GoPro or actually we're just in the shop right now looking at some of their surfacing equipment and
they have they pulled out this amazing Sycamore burl which I personally have never seen Sycamore
burl before so it is a something different something definitely very cool for us be sure we're doing
We're thinking we're probably gonna be getting this one, and then there is two other pieces that we wanna get with it.
so we're just going through right now we're just putting stars on all of the uh
on all the slaps that we picked out here. So we'll show you guys what we're looking at
got this big beauty Claro walnut right here intense figuring it's
a nice big hole in the middle for an epoxy fill we've got this guy
here another big one these are almost 20 footers
and we're taking that one as well yeah
so these slabs right here that we're looking at right now these are all like really nice bigger
dredge wood spots and we haven't really, have we ever had slabs like this? Not like this in redwood just
small pieces, yeah yeah so it's a really nice material there and this is a Bastogne a nice
round a lot of irregularities even some nice Punk in there that we can fill in with epoxy
alright guys yeah, the three Sycamore yeah well we are back in Calgary now the the trip is over
it went really really good actually I think we ended up picking out like 15 different slabs and
we were honestly just so impressed at the way that GL Veneer runs their facility like it's
a 140,000 square foot warehouse there's like I think he said something like 85 employees there
and the place is spotless it's so well organized and just to top it all off of course they have
some really, really beautiful materials so we are just we couldn't be happier to be partnering up
with these guys they're definitely going to be a main supplier of ours moving forward and
we've got oh I had I show you guys one of the slabs that we picked out that was already sold
and it's kind of looking like already I might have a second slab sold so I'm really excited
to start actually building some stuff and being able to show all of you guys what we're gonna
create with their wood but we just wanted to we wanted to show you guys what it's actually like
for us when we go and pick out slabs of wood for our tables like what it takes you know the
facilities that it takes to produce that wood and just how much fun it can be too so if there's any
other questions that we're not answered in the video you know feel free to leave a comment below
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next Friday's video I cannot say what it is yet but there is a huge announcement something that
probably one of the biggest things the biggest changes we've made to our business recently
so make sure you stay tuned for that I hope you guys enjoyed this video we'll see you next Friday