DIY Real Carbon Fiber Epoxy Table (Nearly went very wrong)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2021
- Real DIY Carbon Fiber Epoxy Table (Nearly ended in disaster)
I needed a bespoke desk for our home office so I decided to make a DIY one from carbon fibre/fiber. I used 3d printed parts and an MDF core but it all nearly went very wrong when I made a mistake after skinning and applying the epoxy resin.
We all make mistakes and I wanted to show that youtubers make them too. Usually they just get edited out so that videos look more professional. I don't see how that helps anyone who wants to make things themselves so I left the mistakes in. More importantly, I show you how I fix the mistake and still end up with a professional finish.
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Nice to see how a bad carbon layup can be turned around!
Thank you for an honest build experience. I remember being told when I first started building things someone told me this truth :
"Until you have experienced failure, you cannot truly value the joy of success"
I have found it to be true many times.
100%. We learn more from a failure than any success.
I'm one of the persons who could prevent carbon fiber losses by watching this video before starting a way to difficult project.
Good idea with the Black line around😊
Really appreciate your approach to this project and your honesty. Thank you.
Good job. We appreciate the lessons learned and your fight to get it right.
Well done on it not letting it beat you! Lock down hit so many people and as we see now is still affecting many businesses with staffing issues.
Beautiful desk. What I've found when cf skinning is using spray adhesive on the backside of the cf. It locks in the weave pattern well. Then use spray adhesive on the part you are skinning and lay the weave. If you are wrapping over and under the edge, you'll get a mechanical lock on the part when it cures so you don't need to use epoxy on the mdf. Quick black under spray paint is good before laying. Has worked well for me anyway, maybe another way for you in the future to try.
Thanks for the tips, your way is the way i would do any others in future.
Nice save, and good thinking on the line over the join. There's also something called stabilised carbon fibre that has something on one side to stop the weave being pulled around. Would be perfect for large flat surfaces like this or boards.
Thanks for being real
Nice desk, and I much appreciate your honesty!
Just here for the algorithm. I love the video. Thank you
Well Done Ricky. It's nice to see the honesty, and most importantly, your persistence. As a mentor of mine once told me, "Persistence is Omnipotent"! Working through problems is just part of life. You showed the better part of yourself with persistence and honesty. Again, well done!
Thanks, it all seems like a distant memory now. I'm currently sitting at my bespoke carbon fibre desk typing this reply so it's all good. Thanks for the comment.
I know I'm a bit late to this but I just caught your video and enjoyed the fact that you showed how it can go wrong. I tell people all the time that epoxy projects are not as easy as the TH-cam channels make them look. And it is a very expensive lesson. Myself I have watched too many videos to mention and went through a lot of epoxy the hard way. It all stemmed from a video I saw and how they made it look so easy. I thought I'm very mechanically and artistically good at figuring out things and being able to do them really well so I should be able to do this easily. Not the case at all. My first go at epoxy was a two-tier countertop of 35 ft² and two bathroom floors that had tile so needed to be leveled out first and this was all metallic design. There were a million things that could go wrong fortunately they all turned out great even though I had to redo the countertop three times and each floor two or three times.
So my main point is it's not as easy as it looks and it is very expensive. I just hope people are told these things before they spend their hard-earned money and screw up something like a floor or countertop that didn't need to be touched to begin with but did it because it looks so easy.
Hi, thanks for the comment. Indeed, epoxy is very expensive and I big headache if it goes wrong. A couple of years down the line this is all just a distant memory for me now but I use the carbon desk every day. It's perfect for the space I have and has zero flex. It could probably do with a polish now though🤔
Brilliant vid
Really thinking about doing one of these. Thanks for the honest video.
No problem Gary. If I can help one person avoid my mistake then the video was worth doing.
love it
Good video, and I really feel for you. I am looking to do something similar for my gaming room as we need a desk that can also doble up as a crafting table. I'm glad I found your video and now know that I'm gonna need a bit more research to make sure I do it rite. Thank you for keeping it real.
Thanks for the comment Mike. If I can't be a good example, at least I can be a good warning 🙂 Glad my mistake may have helped you avoid what I did wrong 👍
Good video
Great video ric , desk looks brilliant!! And your editing is top notch 👌
Cheers Matty 👍
And that's some good diy content.
Thanks Zulu👍
I did 10mm grove plastic card I made pour resin on then like a window cleaner level out the resin then got nice soft paint brush and dabs all over the top then heat flame gun and it went like mirror glass
Kudos and strength to your arm, mate. My molding and casting experiences have been full of initial failures (some of them pretty dumb), and then, because of the sheer complexity of making multi-piece molds (together with a dearth of learning resources on the topic, David Neat's blog being the one exception), come the "intelligent mistakes". These are the small, forgivable oversights that are purely down to a lack of experience or learning resources. The one thing I have learned is to trust the simple solutions and to go for prototypes as far as is possible, even if it's printing, post processing PLA and molding / casting small sections of the soon to be larger item.
In some ways TH-cam can be like an Instagram photo of your amazing low-cal vegan lunch when you had pie and chips the previous evening.
My experience has been like a series of waves on an incoming tide, each successive wave gets closer and closer to the dunes, sea wall, whatever. But anyone who has gone through creative processes without a mistake has probably been making bicycle clips.
Plus the sense of achievement when a project is turned around is like nothing else. Yes, there is the bliss of relief, but also there is something that has a story to it in the room, taking it's rightful place in the rich tapestry of life.
Always looks easy then you try and get problems lol even just doing the resin get holes resin moves away fish eye Iv done car parts skinning and chopped carbon
Mine came out better than I thought done another one now working out how to fit diamond drilled cores I did in granite about 150mm high 100mm round then cover resin over them what to use to fix can’t drill threads now lol Iv finished the top
I find only use epoxy resin do a base coat definitely. Don’t use that catalyst poly resin it’s wrong for that style and no work time. After doing a layer spray acetone in a spray gun a light mist to help with bubbles After doing your finish layers just try polish finish not spray clear coat
thanks ! Bro please please can you help me with making fiberglass house door steps details
I’m going to try a coffee table it’s solid wood about 1000x600 Going to wrap the top in carbon and just paint the legs then it’s up for sale. What money you think I’ll get for something like that ??
Iv made steering wheel with flat bottom and car gauges all sorts
Sounds like you know what you're doing Gary. I find with that kind of thing it is very difficult to price. It's all a question of what someone is prepared to pay for it. I very rarely sell carbon stuff as it's so much work I wouldn't make it back and often I love the result so much I like to keep it for myself.
@@RickyImpey hi yes I know what you mean. I did a flat bottom steering wheel cut it myself and did the carbon fibre. It was my old one coz I paid £400 for my new one on my rx8 so was doing them to sell but lots of work and kept it lol Iv got lots of carbon fibre left so trying tables to be different see how it goes
How did you make your wake skate
Hi, I'm putting a video together on it now actually. Keep an eye out for when I release it.
Oh, man, instead of painting "no-man's land" black, I think it would've been even better in red or yellow.
Black, being the same colour as the carbon-fibre, would make me wonder why you didn't just use carbon-fibre all the way. But if it's red or yellow, it's obviously an accent, right?
When fixing up mistakes, always try to make it look like a deliberate choice.
Yeah, that would look really nice. I think at the time I was just hoping to get something usable from the whole project. I use the desk every day now and it's perfect for what I wanted so I'm happy.
Sorry, what a Shit.... ever build the old experience...a Surfboard... that's works!
Resin comes Up ..not Down😊