Dylan, wow, wow, wow! You and your team did an amazing job on our table. I had no idea of the pour issue - 😳 Yes, we have worked with your company for over a decade and every aspect has been A+. You expertly handled our table project from day 1. Thank you and Dan at GL Veneer for incorporating our product on the slab during the drying process. Also, for working with me on keeping the live edge as much as possible, and changing the resin color 3 times! It was all worth the wait!
Thank you so much! It was definitely worth the leak we faced haha. We were so happy with how it turned out, and we're so glad you like it as much as we do!
Very well said. Mishaps always happens with materials like wood - great to hear that there is so much passion behind the project from the customer side.
Fabulous! Love seeing all the problem solving working out in real time! Great bunch of artisans all contributing skills and humor! Beautiful result, loving that live edge
My suggestion for leaks: Butyl tape the outside of the seams on your forms. The wide stuff for camper roofs with vinyl on one side. Roll it into place with a heavy seam roller, and forget about leaks. Just don't stick it directly to your casting table, lay down a removable tape or film first. It. Is. Leakproof.
Why don't epoxy table builders apply tape to the join between the casting table top and the vertical sides of the mould instead of just relying on silicon sealant? The wide tape (150-200mm) used to waterproof around new window installations might work better than the 50mm tape you typically use in pours. The increased stick-surface would help minimise leaks and reduce the time spent plugging /steeming leaks and more than offset the cost of the wider tape
Maybe there's an issue with the epoxy sticking to that window tape too much? The tape used for epoxy pours is one that the epoxy doesn't like to bond with so it makes demolding much easier.
The amount of work required to make the tape prefect for each pour would probably be to much, it is definitely something we could look at in the future. But silicone is nice and very easy to clean up from out pour tables, as well as tooling it in. All of our side pieces are reused for our molds, so we only retape them every couple months. All said and done we can silicone a mold together in a couple minutes. While not even worrying about making a mess or the chance of a leak.
WOW!!! This is great!!! It's always a pleasure to watch artisans at work solving problems in real time. This is why your channel is always a highlight of my week. The challenges and difficulties encountered during a build are addressed and a solution is found. The table looks fantastic!!! Thanks for letting us meet some additional members of the team. This is one of your best videos yet. Keep up the good work!!!
Thank you so much John! I'm so glad you enjoyed this video so much! I had a lot of fun while editing it because it is something different than usual! 😁
Firstly, cracking table!👏 Regarding the legs rebate, I've often wondered why you don't use a festool router on the track, but seeing this video, I think it's because your team enjoys the process! Good job Randy! 👍🇦🇺
This is a stunning table! I really like the natural edge being exposed as much as possible. The legs also are amazing. The whole unit gels perfectly. After all the years of perfect work, it's good to see that not all goes well all of the time. Yes, you are human after all! Thanks for sharing, cheers Michael.
Stunning slab and that edge really suits the clear epoxy effect. Must have been a nightmare when it was leaking, but SO worth it for the finished effects!
I think a tour around some metal casting shops might be in order. There are all sorts of technical casting sands with release agents, might allow you to keep as much of the burl live edge as possible. Plus its a good excuse for a few days out.
Every project has it's differences from the last adventure. I wished I had run across you before I started my current project as I might have learned some valuable lessons. I am close to finishing a small coffee table with a waterfall end/leg on one end. This mitercut from a single
Love the projects , I own pelican state woodworks in Louisiana we do a lot of resin live edge tables, a cool thing we use to stop leaks like you dealt with on this pour , is 5 min 2 part epoxy PUTTY it works very well bc the liquid resin won’t push through. we love watching your videos keep up the awesomeness!
Amazing! I just saw this video and was in Calgary a little over a week ago. Wish I knew, I would have come by and made my family angry by buying some stuff….
Lol...funny title for the video, or should it read, "400 years to grow this Tree, 3 years to build, and 1 hour to screw it up!" lol...I'm sure it was a real nail-biter...keep up the good work guys!
You should have added a 1/4 in to the rough thickness and then built a full rectangle. Then pour a 1/4 thick “waste layer” of epoxy that would act as a floor for all cracks and voids in the center of the table. After the waste layer is cured, then dam up the edges as done in the video and proceed with the pour. Then after everything is cured, remove the waste layer on the cnc. If most of the leaks were from it leaking underneath as I believe was mentioned in the video, this could solve it.
Great video. I really like how the table came out. You have some very talented coworkers. I like how you all work as a team. The Black Forest oil finish really makes this table pop. I don't think I would have used blue towels. I think I would have reinforced the area of the leak with more tape. Maybe cut a board to custom size to fit in the leaky area. If the board were to get stuck you could always cut it out. Does Black Forest make cutting boards or coffee tables? Beds, picture frames. I would like to see another video of your father's guitar making classes. or anything unusual? Can't wait until the next video.
Thanks so much! Yes, thankfully we have incredible teamwork here otherwise things may not have turned out in the end! That's not a bad idea at all! We make coffee tables decently often, and cutting boards less often but we do make them, I don't believe we've done picture frames before but we did cast photos in resn once! We've made 2 beds so far, we have videos for both! We're doing a guitar video soon, not based in Brad's class but we'll definitely talk about his classes in that video!
I honestly think I saw you driving this burl chunk on I-5 near Portland a couple months ago. I tried to see if you were driving the pickup but couldn’t get close enough because of traffic.
Good morning 🌅, It looks amazing figuring grain, great work guys, I have never tried it, but I wonder whether spray expanding foam would do any good to try and stop the leaks, Obviously spraying it first where are you? Suspect there could be leaks appearing letting it set up and then doing your poor., 😂, fingers crossed, 🤞, or whether there would be a chemical reaction and it would dissolve it, Keep up the great work stay safe , France,
You guys must have been sh&%$ng bricks doing that pour! It's a stunning piece of wood, but the live edge would be a real challenge to sit at comfortably!
Beautiful table, although I am not a fan of using live edge that is so wacky. It gives the table a very odd shape that seems almost unusable. Otherwise, the finish is great.
