Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie back again from The Black Forest Wood Company so this week
we're kind of just giving you guys uh a little bit of an update on a few of the different projects
we've we've had going on in the shop so we've got this resin table we did that has charred
live edges we poured metallic blue resin and then it got a gray wash stain on it so
definitely a little bit different than what we've done before and then we've also got a coffee bean
podcast desk for graham stefan so if you guys aren't familiar with him we'll put some of his
information up on the screen you can go check his channel out but he's got a podcast called the iced
coffee hour so naturally we had to put coffee beans in his table so you guys are going to get
to see that process and if you watch until the end of the video you get an update on charlie and his
recovery to see how he's doing but as always thank you guys so much for taking the time to watch
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any kind of engagement just really means a lot so i hope you guys enjoy the video
you guys have seen us do soogie band before on our xbases this time we've got a client who she
actually wants the live edges on the piece all shusugiban so that instead of this like
white outline the river has a black outline uh the challenge though here is gonna be making sure that
we don't burn the surface of the wood too much so i'm gonna try and just burn the live edge and
hopefully, we don't get too much there it might be kind of tricky but we'll see how this goes
so now we're going to go and burn inside these voids in here so we'll see how that works
okay so we have got our gray stained walnut table all finished up um this is the one that
we burnt the live edges on and you guys probably just saw us demold this we actually sent this
one to our good friends gecko jekyll finishing as their company name and they did this for us
because it's actually got a polyurethane top coat i don't know how i feel about the gray i have
mixed feelings if i'm being honest um i think it looked really good when it had just a clear coat
but it's by the sounds of it this color goes a lot better with our clients home
but i'm curious to know would this be something that you guys would do with your walnut table
or would you leave it natural okay so it's been about two days now since we did our base layer
in this table for graham and if you guys take a look in here at the epoxy i'm not sure if you
can see that but it's still kind of soft i can actually still dent it with my finger so that's
about the perfect time if you're doing layered pores for when you want to pour that next layer
you don't want it to stick to your finger but you do want to still be able to dent it
and then like i mentioned earlier this one's getting coffee beans so we've got
probably bought too much we bought like a hundred dollars for the coffee beans
we've got four full bags here should we need it i don't think we will but we might
the goal here is to kind of cover the whole bottom so i'm going to dump these in lauren's going to
help me spread it out and then we're just going to pour a thin layer over top of these to kind of
seal them in place and then once that layer is tacky then we're going to do the final casting
yeah so graham and jack the guys who this table is for they actually have a podcast called the iced
coffee hour so it's obviously only fitting that they cover their whole table and coffee beans
okay so i think that's a good start we'll kind of clean up the coffee beans that have got all over
the place uh we'll even this out and then we'll come back and show you guys what it looks like
before we pour okay so now we want to turn this turquoise like the base layer which you cannot see
anymore but if I do like my ratio for turquoise is two drops of blue to one drop of green uh but if i
do full drops in this since it's not a very large volume it'll be too concentrated so I like to get
a screw so stick it on the end get a little bit of dye on the screw put a little bit of that in
and then we'll do the same thing one more time with blue and then we'll do it once with green
and that that way i can get more like a quarter drop or a half drop so quick disclaimer we've
never done this before um we are experimenting with the client's table but for the most part
that usually goes okay so my plan right now is to just try and coat all of the coffee beans
and get a thin layer poured over them so that they're all nice and sealed so
all right I can already tell there's going to be some repositioning to be done
they definitely float
there we are we've got all the coffee beans in now I actually didn't expect them to
move quite as much as they did I thought more of them were going to be stuck down
so what I'm kind of going to do now is just move these coffee beans around in here so that all
surfaces of every single bean are coated in epoxy this is a really weird feeling it's kind of fun
our original plan was to actually get these beans within that line so that we didn't end up cutting
through any but as you guys can see that would have been really hard to stop them from going to
the end so we're just gonna end up cutting through these beans and well we might have to like fill it
up with superglue for the beans that are sticking through on the end but it should look pretty cool
weird smell like mix of epoxy and coffee
the coffee bean table has been demolded and it's been flattened i wet it down a little so you guys
can kind of see what the grain looks like as long as charlie's not in the way I guess but you really
can't see the beans in there right now so if you look from the end you can see the beans in there
so we're going to have to polish this whole thing up we'll put our osmo on but the pour did come out
really really clear so i'm thinking by the time this is sanded it should look just amazing so i
hope you guys enjoyed this week's video uh let me know what you think of this table it's definitely
quite a bit different yes charlie um as well like we said we want to give you guys a charlie update
so he got his staples out um this morning actually um so graphic content alert but it's healing
pretty good he's got one little cut as you guys can see but it's not too too bad um I don't even
think he knows that the cut is there actually so i think they said like a few more days that
should be closed up and he's already basically back to normal and he's checking spencer out
yeah so thank you guys for watching I hope you were glad to see charlie
thank you guys so much for watching to the end of the video
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so thank you guys and we'll see you next week charlie what do you have to say yes
charlie oh anything else
he just did a mic drop on you yeah yeah that's a no comment all right you're good