Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from The Black Forest Wood Company, this week we're
going to be building a conference table for a tree service company and we actually had to
break the slab in order to do it so to begin this build we start with our slab breakdown process so
this is essentially cutting the slab into pieces smaller pieces that is so that we can lay them out
in the mould and get the size and layout that we want another thing that you might notice on this
slab I don't know if you can tell from this shot but it is very very warped so much so that if we
completely flatten it we'll probably be left with less than two inches thick so we actually had to
break this slab in order to get it flat enough and basically, take out those warp sections now,
normally we would film something as cool as that is because we literally took our forklift
and snapped the slab with our forklift but we didn't need another visit from
occupational health and safety for the last time we climbed on top of our forklift
so we didn't film it but maybe next time we'll see if you guys want it
bad enough maybe next time we will take the risk. Oh I have no grip sorry good
sad ah that goes
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something that's become quite popular on a lot of our builds in the recent months
is a base layer so what that is is we pour about a half-inch thick opaque layer
typically it's black but like for the table for Joe Manganiello we did a metallic blue base layer
and what this does is it prevents you from seeing the leg plates that are used to mount the legs
onto the table but it still allows the majority of the pour to be clear which lets you see those
beautiful live edges of the piece of wood once the base layer is cured we go ahead and give
it about 180 grit sanding and then it's time to top it off with the final layer of clear resin
there's kind of two ways you can go about the base layer we're doing the first way
here which is letting it cure and then sanding it but the second way is letting
it only partially cure so it's still soft and then pouring your second layer over top
is it too close to where I am yeah I know it's nice
but I'm just saying this is a pretty wide table they were already off right
it was popped all the way this is a new sheet so it should
okay watch your fingers underneath yeah
okay let's go there
okay we're gonna drop soon there we go
that was super easy so easy
so now we are using our Festool track saw to actually, trim this piece to size so Festool makes
a very nice saw this track saw you know it's quite precise there's a lot of fine adjustment features
but the only I guess downside to this saw is it does kind of lack in power not that you can't work
around it, it's just in order to make a cut like this you're going to have to go in multiple passes
and now we're adding the recesses that are actually going to house the leg pockets so this is
just a small little detail that we've been doing on our tables for years but the top plate for
our legs are six millimetres thick and we're just putting in a six-millimeter thick recess
this way when you look underneath the table you don't actually see those mounting plates from
the bottom side and it just kind of looks like the legs go into the table itself so small detail but
something we always like to do so we sand our tables to 320 grit and then once they're done
if the client has requested a urethane finish we take them over to Jeco so what you're seeing Ian
do here right now is he's sanding with 400 grit and that's because he's actually already applied
the sealer coats to this piece so after he applies his sealer over our 320 grit sanding he does a
400 grit sanding then removes the dust and then finally he can go ahead with the final top coat
so this is a sprayed acrylic urethane that Jeco's using it is catalyzed as well so this
is a two component product meaning that there's a hardener in there just to give more durability
and this is the most durable finish that we have to offer for our clients it's resistant
i think all the way up against sulfuric acid in terms of liquids it's highly abrasion resistant
as well the only downside to this finish is there's really nothing that you can do yourself
to fix it or repair it so if you want something that you can maintain and keep looking beautiful
maybe you want to go with an oil finish but if you know you're someone who's really careful and
you're going to protect your table and you don't need to maintain it then you're probably going to
want to go with the polyurethane finish something else that we didn't end up getting film for this
table but is a critical step to the finishing is our black forest ceramic coating so after ian has
finished applying the polyurethane and it's fully cured we go ahead and apply two coats of our base
coat and uh two coats of top coat sometimes one sometimes two whatever you guys want to do
but that further increases the durability it gives a hydrophobic effect and it also
uh it does allow you to do a little bit of maintenance on the polyurethane where you can't
usually if you don't have the ceramic by having that ceramic on top you can touch up any small
abrasions or scratches that do end up happening now we get the table hoisted up in the air so we
can mark out where our threaded inserts are going to go and then we pilot hold them out and just
get those threaded inserts put into the bottom of the table again this is another nice small detail
that we always like to do on our tables instead of just using your normal wood screws threaded
inserts will allow you to remove the legs and reattach them as many times as needed without
actually stripping out the holes in the table so some of you were slick last week you noticed
where we missed some editing in the video so this week we're hiding another little easter egg
I just want you guys to start your comment with charlie and we'll know that you watched
at this point in the video and we'll be sure to respond to all of your comments specifically
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okay all right all hands on
okay tell us when we're that close
stabilize the carts brothers
all right
get that straight underneath there
now it's time to get the legs put on the table and actually get it flipped over in the space for our
client so all of the legs fit perfectly in the recesses one thing i don't know if you can see
but we do have some clearance around the outside just so it can expand and contract a little bit
then we got to get the whole team on one side of this table to flip it over
because this thing is an absolute beast the legs are probably close to 200
pounds per leg and the top is probably somewhere close to a thousand pounds
so not an easy lift by any means at all and then once it's flipped over the last step
is just to clear all our garbage away get the blankets put back in the truck put the clients
chairs back around the table and of course collect the check and then we're out of here
well I hope you guys enjoyed seeing our process for that table build
one thing I don't know if anyone noticed but that slab actually came from the same exact tree as
the table that we're building for Joe Manganiello um so that's something kind of unique and if you
look to my left we've actually got one left that giant slab over there literally the biggest one
it's the last one left from that tree and it sold we're going to be making a desk from it
but that'll be for a future video but let us know what you guys thought of this conference
table build let us know if you like the space that it went into and we'll see you next week!