If you want good distressing on your wood, beat it with chains. You want some good ovoid dents, not just puncture marks. You want a functional table with good character.
Agree. They need to take a page out of all these cosplayers and model makers and how they weather things. Adam Savage for example has some videos on it.
The concern I have is that a surface that's roughed up is more vulnerable to future damage from spills or things catching on it. When distressing with blunt force, like a chain, you're compressing the wood, making it harder, so it's less vulnerable to damage. Ultimately , we want a table that's going to last for decades, looking better and better as time goes on. Blunt force indentations will give the look you want, without compromising the integrity of the surface, or strength of the wood.
Harvest for sure, and Innkeepers or Alehouse Elm is definitely catchy. I know it's poor form not to include the wood name but "Tavern Top" is definitely an option in my mind. Especially if the key isn't necessarily the wood choice but the fact that it's distressed. It's not about the wood so much as the style.
Distressed: put a few (logically placed) Iron rusty "square nail" heads embedded below the finish. also--- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEA donate the waste wood products to local school wood shops - it was such a memory to make things in wood shop with high quality woods that were donated, as I could not afford to purchase the materials otherwise :D
Agree with the schools on donations, resale to home/hobbyist craftsmen. Sorry but getting a kid that can read a tape, freehand cut a straight line, and take pride in his work not the paycheck would be amazing, and that's coming from an electrician.
I'm quadruple on board with these two. I can't even begin to express how much I wish I had more opportunities when I was younger to work with 'actual wood' in shop class or to be able to buy some cheap recycled planks of hardwood for my hobby projects.
Yes! Absolutely! My local high school has a great woodworking curriculum and the kids learn valuable skills and have a lot of pride. It would be a great way to give back to the community and would be easier to swallow for the Keystone guys than a dumpster.
Doug man, you need to take all the "trash" and sell it to hipsters as reclaimed wood... boom make money and don't just fill up the dumps like an a'hole. Also Distressed finish = 2. Harvest
Bless James' heart, that poor man let's Doug come in and disrupt how things are done because he wants to do what's best for his people and that's so admirable
Anyone else want to see Doug host Hoarders now? I would totally watch a whole season of him sifting through piles of stuff saying “What is this???” over and over.
Wyrmwood fans want the tungsten heavy gigantic d20 destress. Actually... That's not a bad idea, throw a few of those on the table and it aughta destress those nicely
I did some distressing on the wood I used for my fireplace. I found two things that worked really well. I took a super heavy chain (think they were 2" or 3" links) just wacking it and dropping it on there. The other method I used was taking different size screws and nails and laying them sideways on the wood and lightly hammering them down.
OMG yes it felt EXACTLY like the scenes in Kitchen Nightmares where Gordon rampages through the walk-in freezer and it's full of 2-year-old shrimp and other nonsense.
For two day straight I watched the entire vlog series, except some of the building montages, the entirety of the 3 years to reach this vlog! Hello from Portugal, keep at it! ;)
Please don't just throw everything out! Some things can get donated to welfare Some things can be donated to woodworking schools Some things can be given to recycling/upcycling places Dumpsters full of nice things/parts make me sad
Not only is it not profitable but it costs money to do things like that. Someone gets paid to sort all of that stuff, figure out where it's going, deliver it to wherever it needs to go. It kills me to see stuff like that wasted too but it's not cheap to find a home for everything even when you need to get rid of it.
My first choice would be Chestnut, followed by Harvest for the wood stain options. Depending on the price, I'm leaning toward switching from Espresso Maple.
THE FRANKENPUT! How exciting! I do like the distressed tavern table looks too, and knowing they're a "Crazy Ed" special is a bonus! Also, CONGRATS ED AND JACKIE!
Suggestion for distressing Chain (possibly with sharp bits added on) swinging/spinning (OSHA would love it) gives semy random dents, nicks and cuts Also maybe burn then wirebrush.
I remember when I was a kid and my dad bought a dining room table, he specifically picked a distressed wood because he knew it had to live with two kids in the house and it was gonna get distressed at some point.
I would love the Harvest stained wood but without damage since the color is so great! Would that offshoot be more or less complicated to fulfill since less work is required to prepare it?
Can we get the walk through the storage as an uncut version? It may sound weird, but I really like to see such things. Gives you a much better understanding of the company and feels a bit like a treasure hunt. Thx!
Hands down, I love the Harvest stain the best. It just looks like the kind of weathered wood you would find in a bar or tavern. I also really like how the distressing really pops on that Harvest stain. Harvest all the way. I was debating between Cherry or Espresso Maple, but I would definitely make the upgrade to a Harvest Oak/Harvest Elm "Tavern Brawl" table.
If you guys want a good distressing method which makes the wood look like it's been around for a hundred years without it looking like Hannibal Lecter has been using it as a chopping block. Use a sandblaster! It can be tuned to eat away at just the softer part and leave the harder part of the wood raised.
I used to work at a joinery making high quality windows and doors. We were once asked to make a distressed door; we took it out into the car park and just dropped it onto gravel, then took it back indoors and lightly sanded it down afterwards, mostly just to easily remove the gravel. Fun time.
I love the chestnut, but I think for what you guys want the harvest is the better color. Also my dad had a Chevy trailblazer that he drove for 30+ years. More than 400k miles, 2 engines, more work than it was worth. My bother drove it through high school, the horn didn't work and you had to manually blink the blinker. Died a couples year after my dad did. More like the new owner didn't put in the excessive amount of work to keep it running.
Definitely the Harvest staining; it shows off the tavern brawl style distressing wonderfully. Is Wyrm Lyfe going to film any of Crazy Ed's wedding? He looks so giddy about it so there's definitely going to be a lot of explosions and love 😂
Not sure how possible it would be to make but the quantities you guys are working with may help, rather than distressing by hand you could do a rotary wheel of tool that would run over the table in various directions to distress the wood. Similar to a wood plane I guess but instead marking the wood rather than sanding it. look up a corrugated rotary die cutter, something similar to that.
Much better than the previous episode! Not a fan of the stabbing marks, the dragging looked okay though. Distressed isn't my style though. Will there be an option to get the elm without being distressed?
There is a threshing device that is basically a wheel with a bunch of chains attached to it. It rotates and the chains beat on the wheat to separate the grains from the stalks. Modify one of those for stressing the wood real quick! You could even add some spikes and what-not to some of the chain links to get the stabbing and cutting effects. Set it up on a motor over a moving belt and you can "stress" wood parts en mass. Or flay the skin off a hog for roasting. Either way sounds like a good time, no?
2.Harvest shows the depth and "age" of the wood. I would recommend also potentially doing slightly darker stains in random patterns for that "something spilled" look.
Loved the editing on this video JV!! My vote is for Harvest stain, most definitely. Would also love to see you guys donate the unused wood and stuff to Habitat for Humanity or something along those lines.
In college I took an art class that used wood as a medium. When it came to distressing wood, one of the things that looked the best was beating it with a heavy chain. The links left great random marks all over the wood.
Definitely like the harvest sits well in the lineup and is different enough. If you’re looking for wyrmlife content I would absolutely love a tables wood masterclass. An indepth look at every wood choice close up with doug explaining the characteristics and how they age. Its hard to tell the differences and some of these wyrmlife cuts are quick shots of the tables. I and others had multiple comments asking about what table was used for the accessory masterclass video. It seems like black walnut but it looks much lighter than pictures would have you believe. Same with the kickstarter banner image. I believe its cherry but why do the legs look so much darker. Im probably not the only one and maybe many of your customers dont know their woods as wel as you guys. Thanks!
I drove a 1978 Chevy Nova from new to 19 years old, it was running like a top at the end. My then-husband let the auto shop class at the school where he was teaching paint it, it ended up being the fugliest color red ever, with painted wheels to match. I wish I still had that car. (Not over my current ride, 2017 Challenger Scat Pak.) BTW this is the Wyrm Lyfe I know and love, thank you!
Question 1: The mid tone stain shows off the character beautifully, but looks like the cabinets from a 70s house. So I'll have to go with the darker stain (perhaps the darkest distressed top with an expresso maple base?) Question 2: Until recently I drove a 1997 honda accord with over 250,000 miles on it. No A/C. Good clunker for the price.
Doug: That car gave you serious points in our family. When it comes to cars we're pretty much the same people. We had a 2009 Yaris hatchback forever. Had the same moisture issue with it eventually too. We took care of the mechanics, but never cared about cosmetics :p Just sold it this year to get a very used Nissan Leaf, but we're definitely into the Tesla thing.
Hitting with a chain for dents, lay saw blade on its side and drag across grain let the tooth rake cause scratches, nails in a board, randomly touch with flap disc of angle grinder. Those are my favorite distressing tools
The harvest and chestnut both look great but adding another reddish color option I think is your best bet. It's a really nice fit between the cherry and padauk colors, especially if it's a lesser expensive wood.
Drag a piece of the wood behind a four wheeler over a gravel lot, with someone on top to weigh it down. You'll get some amazing distressed results and have a lot of fun in the process 🤘🏻 did that once for an artist who wanted seriously distressed wood.
Video subject idea: Tips for home distressing that void warranties but maintain structural integrity. F'ex: setting a pot of boiling water directly on the table. Staining the finish.
Harvest Stain for sure. Also, when thinking of heavily used wood from like a medieval taver thats been around for decades, I think of wood that had tens of thousands of mugs, beersteins, plates and such placed and moved across it... so I think some patches of light abrasion should be included, and would give the wood more "character"
If water is "pouring" into your car (especially if it's the passenger side), the drains below your wiper cowl are likely clogged. the water buildup then pours into your air intake when the car moves.
