I honestly think Dan's channel is a literal testament to working hard to live your dreams. This man started out riding bikes and recording it. He has now moved onto sharing his hobbies and moving forward to continue doing what he loves and turned it into a career. Mad props.
So how are we colouring the wood? Dan: Blowtorch How are we putting reflective tape on? Dan: Blowtorch How are we settling the epoxy? Dan : Blowtorch How do you shave? Dan : Blowtorch How.. Dan : BLOWTORCH!!! Confirmed. Dan is the son of Tim the toolman.
Need to make one for Justin with a light up ACW logo in the middle of the table for the showroom of his shop... that shit would look cool and I believe you could pull it off to look sick!
Janglles the logo could be easy as well, all he would have to do is use the vinyl cutter ( Or a normal printer) cut out the letters, glue them to some wood, roughly router out the letters, then sand the rough edges smooth
I see Dan's house and garage with all his cars, trucks, motorcycles and other toys, and just can't help but think of it being like a real life GTA garage 😂
Hey Dan work in carpentry and I absolutely loved this, I have on suggestion for you, for when you doing the thickness of the board, when your cutting the boards to length always leave an inch extra on the end incase the planer goes to deep or chips out the end of the board, then once your happy just cut them to length, I know you mightnt see this but it has saved my ass several times, keep her going brotha.
when using a compound miter saw like that one, you should pull out then down and finally forward. it’s much safer and won’t pull back super fast towards you.
Looks terrific! Give this a try if you haven’t already, try burning wood till is in full flames so some of the soft wood burns out. Then brush char our with stiff bristled brush. It gives a beautiful relief effect and it’s a natural way to preserve wood. I did a frame for a mirror and worked great.
My high school woodshop teacher would’ve had a field day with you man. He failed basically all of my projects if they had a little bit of burn to them because I like the way it looks and “that’s not right” because I guess me doing what I want with the wood that I paid for for MY project “isn’t right”
That's the great thing about woodworking, there isnt a "right"way to do a lot of things. It's all about the personal preference, I personally love the burnt look.
Should have ripped the rounded edges on your table saw. Running then through the planer on edge can be dangerous and inaccurate. The tablesaw blade is square to the table top, whereas the planer just replicates whatever the edge on the opposite side is. Square or not. Clearly it doesn't matter for your purposes, it will for other projects.
Honestly started watching your channel just for the dually build... but I have found so much more. All your content is so great and entertaining no matter what you do. Safe to say you are my favorite channel to watch now and I always look forward to your new videos!
Hey Dan, this looks great. I have a question for you. When you routed around the wood and resin for the LEDs, were you able to see that router line when the desk was upright? or was the epoxy to opaque to see it? Thanks!
awesome video. i was scrolling through the woodwoking subreddit the other day and one comment stood out to me. this guys biggest suggestion for upping your finish quality on furniture was to source your wood from places other than home depot/lowes. he was saying that construction lumber, aside from its inconsistencies, is often dried poorly and will bend and swell more than a properly cured piece of wood from a nicer lumber yard.
Hey Dan! Don’t know if you’ll actually see this, but... talking about epoxy...I’m also a woodwork that does fine furniture and I only use west system to fill cracks, knots, and small voids. For large pours like this, use Ecopoxy but make sure to get the 2:1 mix ratio. Ecopoxy is pretty popular right now with large table pours like this. You can pour the entire table in one shot. It’s a slow curing epoxy(takes like 72ish hours to fully cure) so bubbles and heat aren’t an issue. Look up “epoxy river tables”. It’s kinda similar to what you’re doing.
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killer table. only thing that could be improve in my opinion is a better diffusion layer for your LEDs so the light comes out of the LEDs more evenly. this would help with the sort of blockey look where you can make out all the individual LEDs.
Great work! There are a couple of things I would have done differently but it is just a question of personal taste not execution. I am inspired to make my own now! Thanks for sharing!
Hey dan huge safety tip when using a table saw for crosscutting don't use the rip fence as the pice can get caught between the blade and fence and possibly go flying. You can set a stop on the fence but there should be plenty of space between the blade and fence. Work safely!
@@hinglemccringle5897 wow! thank you so much, this is exactly what I've been looking for, wasn't sure what to call it. I have the whole Philips Hue ecosystem, not a lot 4 bulbs, light strips, and a couple other goodies. And I use them w/ my Apple Home app along with products from Vocolinc, which work w/ Apple Home. I'm honestly not sure how the other stuff works or what it's called but this gives me something to go on. Thanks again!
dude that is fuckin BEAUTIFUL....and pretty classy too. alot of times these things will be really corny or overly tacky, but this is spot on man. awesome look, quality craftsmanship. kudos
The Desk turned out nice, I like the idea of using brass casings that have been shot already. I think used casings are more interesting to look at than new ones. West Coast is expensive, I've seen a few makers use it, but I haven't. I've used Incredible Solution's one to one ratio epoxy, it's like 70 bucks shipped from amazon. I've used it on my desk build which is 82 inch's long, with a 4 inch wide river going down the entire length with Fire Glass as a filler. A planer isn't really meant for joining boards like you did. A planer compresses the wood in one area. Since you have a table saw, you can build a jig from plywood where you use your fence as a reference to cut a straight edge on the board. Then flip the board and run it through the saw again without the jig. When you cut your channel for your led's, you can use a straight edge as a guide to get a cleaner straighter cut. If you want to make a form for resin you can use plywood or particle board with Tyvac tape coated with car wax it works better than melanin, and it's a lot cheaper. I've seen videos of pros use this method to make forms, check out Manor Wood. You used a torch a to pop the bubbles but I'm unsure as to why you used Mapp gas as it's more expensive and burns hotter then propane, unless it's what you had on hand. The Guys at Stone Coat Countertops use propane for popping bubbles.
Not to mention profitable for him.. I know I'll be buying some for tables on his recommendation in the future. Always like using affiliate links, spread the wealth around.
I’m a carpenter, and I do a lot of custom work. I absolutely love this and the way it turned out. Whether it was done “methodically correct” or not, it looks amazing. Good job👌
Trying to find a way to say just this... Looks great and he loves it which is great. But I wouldn't suggest people follow this as a tutorial or anyone follow a lot of these steps.
Awesome build! A little tip... next time go ahead and make your cuts for the center rectangle for your pour, THEN plane everything down to thickness. That way you save some wear and tear on your planer with only having two long pieces, and you'll have some full thickness two by scraps in case you need them in a later project.
Hey Dan here a tip for you I work in wood furniture, you should always send 1 piece of timber at a time though the planner as they have to rollers in and when you put to pieces of timber in it can make the pressure uneven so it won't take of much off on one of them
This came out looking good. One thing that would cut down on any air bubbles while pouring over casing is filling the casings with clear epoxy prior to your pour. Especially when the epoxy Crest just over the casings that's where alot of bubbles happen.also the fact the you did multiple small pours help alot. But again the table looks amazing
