Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie
from The Black Forest Wood Company this week we're going to be working on the biggest
round table we have ever made i know it's kind of becoming a joke around here now that every week
we're doing the biggest or largest something that we've ever done but people just keep ordering
larger stuff so this is a nine foot round clairol walnut dining table that we've paired with
midnight blue resin and of course we've used our black forest deep resin here so we're going to
show you how we managed to flatten this because it's bigger than our cnc we're going to show
you the pour for this piece and then not until next week but eventually you guys will get to see
the full process on this piece and we've got some bonus content in here too from another table
so please leave a like comment and subscribe all of that really really means a lot to us we do
read basically every single comment and try and reply to as many as we can so thank you guys for
all your support and i hope you enjoy the table well today our I think 20-foot long CNC is uh not
big enough so we had to buy a little CNC router sled set up and uh I'm gonna flatten this big
nine foot by nine foot wide round table for you okay so we were a little low obviously on
that first go-around we only had 180 litres so we mixed up 30 more litres we've got for a
total of 210 now and we're gonna add these in so now we're just going to get our fan set up on
this we'll give it a once over and go around and pick out any small pieces of dust but there we
go this will sit in here for about a week and then we'll come back and try and lift it out
of here this is a full three inches thick as well i should mention so our resin without
cooling is rated for a two inch thick pour we've got three fans set up around this piece and
we've also got a water cooled mold so if you guys haven't been watching us for a long time you might
not know about our pouring setup it's actually aluminum tables with hdpe over top and then we've
got full copper piping with chilled water there's our water chiller there we can set the temperature
on it and that's what's actually keeping the resin nice and cool during this cure time here if you
were to have no fans no cooling you could get a little bit too quick of a cure which is going
to result in bubbles and then it's not going to soak in as much but just with those fans in the
cooling we're able to pour 200 liters like this at 3 inches thick in a single shot all of the
bubbles pop on their own too like we haven't went over this with a blowtorch or anything like
that and it's actually not recommended to use a blowtorch because what can happen is you'll
flash cure that top layer and trap bubbles but we'll leave this here for five or six
more days and then we'll get it de-molded so this is another project that we ended up
delivering this week it was a custom commission console table that our client's going to put in
her basement and it also has a color that we've never really done before it's kind of this goldeny
forest green i guess you would describe it as that's how i created the colored leaves it
was a mix of gold pigment and green pigment and it actually kind of happens to match the
outside of her home which was a kind of a nice little touch that we realized when we came up the
wood here is map a burl which is essentially just french poplar burl if you guys didn't know that
and we're using our black forest deep resin here as usual and this again was a pretty thick pour
with a large volume of resin and a very porous species of wood and we did not have to seal the
edges to get a bubble free pour our resin cures nice and slow so it does that on its own after
we've flattened and sanded our piece to 320 grit the next step is to apply our black forest
furniture oil a lot of the time we'll apply the initial coat by hand just so we can control how
much products going on there because you do want to make sure it's a very small amount after we've
buffed on that coat by hand we'll then follow it up with the gem just to kind of work in uh the oil
into the wood and then also to remove any excess and we like to do two coats and you can sand in
between if you want to increase the sheen and then to finish it we top it off with our black forest
ceramics so here we are delivering the piece to her house luckily this one wasn't too heavy so the
two of us were able to pull this off really really gorgeous home here as well and it's just going
in her basement next to the ping pong or beer pong table depends what kind of a night you're
having she said last it was used for beer pong and you'll also see on the bottom of that table
there there was some angle iron we installed that was just to help the rigidity of the piece since
there was a lot of resin and this wood is very soft these legs look light but they're actually
a solid three quarter inch by four inch steel so they're over 100 pounds per leg and then we're
using the rampa threaded inserts which we do sell you guys can find them on our website and those
just do a really good job securing the legs down so the lights for this piece were custom
designed actually so that they could slide underneath this heat register here uh that way
the edge of the table can touch right against the wall without kind of having this awkward
gap about that big so let's slide it up and see that pour went very very well it's definitely a
little nerve-wracking when we end up pouring this volume of resin but we're very happy with the way
it turned out the mappa burl table also was a big success the client loved it she was at first you
know she thought that the colour might be a little bit too light for her basement but then once we
saw it in there it looked very good so huge thank you to her client she was a very very sweet lady
a pleasure to work with and next week hopefully we'll have this thing demolded and we can show you
a little bit more of the process but likely what we'll do is wait until it's completely finished
and show you guys a start to finish on it but if you do want to stay more up to date on some
of our projects just follow us on instagram we're posting stories on there every day and
you guys can see daily updates but I hope you guys enjoyed and I guess we should hear from
charlie we haven't heard from him in a little bit charlie what do you think okay that again he's keeping it short um but thank
you guys for watching and we'll see you next week
