Final product looks really good. Glad your coming to the finish line i know the extreme effort you've put into your shop. But you can be proud of what all you've done. 👍😊
This fiasco has given me mental diareahhhha for a couple weeks now! Looks great, and any sensible shop needs a 'clean' bench for sure. You might be able to use a clothes iron with a wet towel to flatten out the crappy plastic thing ( I just use the blue/green cutting mats). Your idea of offering specialty services from your small shop makes sense, and if you can stick it out there is a comfortable profit for all your efforts. Thx for the video.
Thank you for the vote of confidence. Sorry for the diarrhea. LOL. I'm not giving up any time soon. I've started business in the past but they were all very simple service-related businesses that didn't need a whole lot of startup capital. This business is entirely different in that this time not only does it need a lot of startup money, everything about a machine shop is extremely expensive. I've also had a learning curve with all of this. I have many more trials to come and many more hills to climb. I have to say though, having this shop is something that makes me happy beyond comprehension. When I walk in the shop and flip the lights on, my inner light goes on as well. I'm glad I can share some of this with you all. Thanks for watching.
Sorry but I’m laughing a lot inside. Maybe 30 years ago I cut down a huge tree, had to be -90 meters tall - on my farm because I needed to build a fence near it & it was almost dead / at the end of its probably 700-1000 year life & I didn’t want it to fall on my new expensive deer netting steel fence & let my farmed deer out. So there was a burl up in the crown that was around 8 feet in diameter. When I cut it out of the crown it weighed around 2.5 tonnes. I had nothing that could lift it on the farm. Mate had a 3 tonne flat top truck I could load it on, so when I saw a road crew passing bye with a wheel loader I paid them a 24 carton of beer bribe to lift it up onto his truck for me. It wouldn’t fit under my sawmill but I knew a sawyer with a huge horizontal bandsaw that road on two railway lines, and it was large enough in the throat to slab this entire burl. I dropped it off & he slabbed it up into 2.5 inch slabs & I took the mates truck back and loaded it all up slab by slab & brought it back to my seasoning kiln & loaded all the Burl slabs into the kiln for 3 months seasoning. It was the most magnificent Burl I’ve ever seen, no rot holes or bark inclusions - it was just perfect tight Burl knots. When they were all dry, I picked out a nice one for a customers special order Burl table. I sanded it all dead flat and down to 1200 grit, then levelled it all up & poured the self levelling 2 part resin, and that’s when the fun started. Every single knotty twist had a pin hole in it & every one sent up a constant stream of bubbles - one after the other, and I was applying a butane flame to draw the bubbles out and bust them before it set. There were literally millions of them. I was there fully 8 hours from the time I poured the resin, bursting bubbles, because this was such a special rare & unique slab of tight Burl wood about 8 feet in diameter, that it had to be perfect finish. I missed out on dinner at home that night because I couldn’t leave until the resin started to cure enough that no more bubbles would appear to spoil the finish. Around 8pm, I was tired, hungry, but finally there was no new bubbles forming, and the resin appeared to have started to cure enough that no new ones would appear - after I had patiently burst the several million that had come up after I poured the resin. I finally gave up and went home for late dinner. Next day I can in - and would you believe - 3 more bubbles somehow appeared after I’d left. The client went ape shyte about it as an excuse to only pay me half the agreed commission price - after I’d driven quite a few hundred miles to deliver it. I swore loud & long that I would NEVER use a 2 pack clear pouring resin to finish furniture ever again & true to my word - I never did. Some furniture maker in the capital city saw this magnificent table, and sought me out and bought all the remaining burl slabs from me and it was $10k and we are talking 30 years ago so that was a LOT of money back then. So he loaded them up & took them back to his factory - to make furniture out of them. He rang me a few months later to advise his factory had caught fire one night and burned to the ground & all those kiln dried huge hardwood mahogany slabs were turned to charcoal and ash - completely lost. So that mongrel slab table was the only surviving piece out of the whole Burl. It was such a disappointment after all that time & effort, that watching your trials & tribulations bought these painful memories flooding back. My family all see these you tube videos with resin river tables and say to me “you should make those dad!”. They are quite surprised at the swearing response they get from me. You couldn’t pay me enough $ to work with that sh!t ever again. It sucks is the clear answer & anyone uses it is a complete fool, something I will never again do. If I were you, I’d resolve to take the same course of action. 😉😜😂😂👍🇦🇺
No I don't have any reason to ever again and the reason I let someone talk me into it in the first place was because I wanted durability but I also don't want something that's messed up. When I was in high school, I did lots of resin stuff and never had an issue. I sealed the wood before pouring which is supposed to stop the air bubbles but it didn't. Plus, the resin had a lot of surface tension so it pulled and left dry spots everywhere and got wavy. I've never had that from any resins I used in the past but none of the resins I used were equal part A and B. The ones I used had a small bottle of catalyst. Just a few drops of catalyst were all that was needed. I just can't remember the manufacturer because it was so long ago. It's a shame that burl was destroyed. It sounds like it was cursed. LOL.
@@opieshomeshop Pretty much Opie. I’m still wood butchering these days but I’ll never touch resin again. I’m a fan of orange oil & beeswax these days. th-cam.com/video/pQhUavJY56Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PjQkoOWogQUXakva
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Final product looks really good. Glad your coming to the finish line i know the extreme effort you've put into your shop. But you can be proud of what all you've done. 👍😊
Thanks Dave. Appreciate the kind words. Have a good rest of your day.
This fiasco has given me mental diareahhhha for a couple weeks now! Looks great, and any sensible shop needs a 'clean' bench for sure. You might be able to use a clothes iron with a wet towel to flatten out the crappy plastic thing ( I just use the blue/green cutting mats). Your idea of offering specialty services from your small shop makes sense, and if you can stick it out there is a comfortable profit for all your efforts. Thx for the video.
Thank you for the vote of confidence. Sorry for the diarrhea. LOL. I'm not giving up any time soon. I've started business in the past but they were all very simple service-related businesses that didn't need a whole lot of startup capital. This business is entirely different in that this time not only does it need a lot of startup money, everything about a machine shop is extremely expensive. I've also had a learning curve with all of this. I have many more trials to come and many more hills to climb. I have to say though, having this shop is something that makes me happy beyond comprehension. When I walk in the shop and flip the lights on, my inner light goes on as well.
I'm glad I can share some of this with you all. Thanks for watching.
Sorry but I’m laughing a lot inside.
Maybe 30 years ago I cut down a huge tree, had to be -90 meters tall - on my farm because I needed to build a fence near it & it was almost dead / at the end of its probably 700-1000 year life & I didn’t want it to fall on my new expensive deer netting steel fence & let my farmed deer out.
So there was a burl up in the crown that was around 8 feet in diameter.
When I cut it out of the crown it weighed around 2.5 tonnes.
I had nothing that could lift it on the farm. Mate had a 3 tonne flat top truck I could load it on, so when I saw a road crew passing bye with a wheel loader I paid them a 24 carton of beer bribe to lift it up onto his truck for me.
It wouldn’t fit under my sawmill but I knew a sawyer with a huge horizontal bandsaw that road on two railway lines, and it was large enough in the throat to slab this entire burl.
I dropped it off & he slabbed it up into 2.5 inch slabs & I took the mates truck back and loaded it all up slab by slab & brought it back to my seasoning kiln & loaded all the Burl slabs into the kiln for 3 months seasoning.
It was the most magnificent Burl I’ve ever seen, no rot holes or bark inclusions - it was just perfect tight Burl knots.
When they were all dry, I picked out a nice one for a customers special order Burl table.
I sanded it all dead flat and down to 1200 grit, then levelled it all up & poured the self levelling 2 part resin, and that’s when the fun started.
Every single knotty twist had a pin hole in it & every one sent up a constant stream of bubbles - one after the other, and I was applying a butane flame to draw the bubbles out and bust them before it set.
There were literally millions of them.
I was there fully 8 hours from the time I poured the resin, bursting bubbles, because this was such a special rare & unique slab of tight Burl wood about 8 feet in diameter, that it had to be perfect finish.
I missed out on dinner at home that night because I couldn’t leave until the resin started to cure enough that no more bubbles would appear to spoil the finish.
Around 8pm, I was tired, hungry, but finally there was no new bubbles forming, and the resin appeared to have started to cure enough that no new ones would appear - after I had patiently burst the several million that had come up after I poured the resin.
I finally gave up and went home for late dinner.
Next day I can in - and would you believe - 3 more bubbles somehow appeared after I’d left.
The client went ape shyte about it as an excuse to only pay me half the agreed commission price - after I’d driven quite a few hundred miles to deliver it.
I swore loud & long that I would NEVER use a 2 pack clear pouring resin to finish furniture ever again & true to my word - I never did.
Some furniture maker in the capital city saw this magnificent table, and sought me out and bought all the remaining burl slabs from me and it was $10k and we are talking 30 years ago so that was a LOT of money back then.
So he loaded them up & took them back to his factory - to make furniture out of them.
He rang me a few months later to advise his factory had caught fire one night and burned to the ground & all those kiln dried huge hardwood mahogany slabs were turned to charcoal and ash - completely lost.
So that mongrel slab table was the only surviving piece out of the whole Burl.
It was such a disappointment after all that time & effort, that watching your trials & tribulations bought these painful memories flooding back.
My family all see these you tube videos with resin river tables and say to me “you should make those dad!”.
They are quite surprised at the swearing response they get from me.
You couldn’t pay me enough $ to work with that sh!t ever again.
It sucks is the clear answer & anyone uses it is a complete fool, something I will never again do.
If I were you, I’d resolve to take the same course of action. 😉😜😂😂👍🇦🇺
No I don't have any reason to ever again and the reason I let someone talk me into it in the first place was because I wanted durability but I also don't want something that's messed up. When I was in high school, I did lots of resin stuff and never had an issue. I sealed the wood before pouring which is supposed to stop the air bubbles but it didn't. Plus, the resin had a lot of surface tension so it pulled and left dry spots everywhere and got wavy. I've never had that from any resins I used in the past but none of the resins I used were equal part A and B. The ones I used had a small bottle of catalyst. Just a few drops of catalyst were all that was needed. I just can't remember the manufacturer because it was so long ago. It's a shame that burl was destroyed. It sounds like it was cursed. LOL.
@@opieshomeshop Pretty much Opie.
I’m still wood butchering these days but I’ll never touch resin again.
I’m a fan of orange oil & beeswax these days.
th-cam.com/video/pQhUavJY56Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PjQkoOWogQUXakva