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@blu2697

Жыл бұрын

A small piece of advice that i learned and it worked extremely well was that instead of sandpaper between coats you can use craft paper flat and it does wonders.

FINALLY! Someone shows the "paperbag" trick for finishing. First time I had a old furniture maker show me that, I thought he was yanking my chain. (You know like, "Oh shoot...go find me the board stretcher. Quick") But it works beautifully. Just be careful you don't use a piece with any ink on the paper. That's almost as bad a drilling a hole through the top of the table.

Even if I never make a live edge table I got a couple of good tips from this video. The paper bag as 1500 grit sandpaper for one and the Armorseal for another. Thank you!

@StumpyNubs

Жыл бұрын

Those finishing tips are gold for any project you make :)

I am literally in the middle of making a slab end table for my parents for Christmas. Walnut live edge that i got at an estate sale for 15 dollars.

@CemKalyoncu

Жыл бұрын

I pay that much for a 2x2 pine!!

@cbryantbear6498

Жыл бұрын

Wha!? That price was a steel!

@oldkingcrow777

Жыл бұрын

@@CemKalyoncu prices have gone back down significantly now thst thr fools aren't buying into fear mongering I think. 2x4 at both my blue and orange stores are around $3 again for the choice pine. They were $9 a year ago. Looks like the companies with tools and materials finally noticed their sales went down 90% 🤣 Sure. They made the same amount of money with fewer sales, but any good businessman would prefer less profits over a period of more sales. Versus holding inventory and at the end of rhe day basically making the same profit

@CemKalyoncu

Жыл бұрын

​@@oldkingcrow777 I hope we get the same discounts over here. The general rule is that prices go up but will never come down. They will, a little, delay the next round of hikes.

@cdnreplies3597

Жыл бұрын

Just had a walnut log milled for half the material.. got 4 slabs 18ftx2.5inx29in narrows to 23in Got the log free and slabs are free but I did feel like half amwas a lot to give. After looking around it's the common deal. Or pay 100 dollars per hour and this guy too 12 hours. Since it was a free deal and no rush he came on both weekend days. It does feel good getting free lumber though.

Everything bout this video is why this channel is so good. Thank you Stumpy!

Very educational and inspiring. Now I have another dream project to add to the list. Thanks for posting!

Hey, Stumpy Nubs, you can get the twist out of the slab if you have the time. Document how much the twist is, then put twice that thickness under the slab on the opposite corner, and clamp all four corners down on your workbench. If you leave it for about two weeks, it will naturally come out. Wood is not cut twisted by the mill, it comes about from internal stresses when drying. I have seen many pieces straightened this way. You can do the same with paper that is a little warped. Put it in a book with pages that are larger, and leave it for a few weeks.

@cardboardorigami

Жыл бұрын

Need a video

@kiefmanning7394

Жыл бұрын

@@cardboardorigami you lazy SOB. You can’t read the few sentences above? I would add my favorite shims are still playing cards. And usually free

@alwrz4

Жыл бұрын

Do you need to wet the wood or just leave it dry?

@RFMongoose

Жыл бұрын

I have done this

@oldkingcrow777

Жыл бұрын

He definitely knows this haha

Wow. It’s stunning. And stunning in simplicity too. At least, you make it look really accessible as a project. Thanks.

Hey "Stump" -- All your videos are extremely well done and your speaking delivery is outstanding. Your voice is perfect with no "warbling" or very rapid speaking style. GREAT JOB!

Beautiful work James, your table really is lovely; especially the finish.

Thank you for the awesome content bro ✅ Love woodworking and this channel is my go-to for just about everything in relation to it 🇿🇦♥️

Thank you, James. As always, your video shows how and why things really work, concisely, and with humor and perspective. Thanks for showing us ways to get amazing results, and what we want with less time and money spent. To other woodworkers, if you really enjoy doing all the steps yourself, have fun with that. Just keep in mind that it is not inherently virtuous to work harder than necessary to accomplish your goal.

Beautiful work, James! Fantastic looking table!!! 😃 Thanks for all the tips!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Definitely had not heard of the brown paper bag = 1500 grit before. Very cool! Once I get my new workshop up and running, something like this seems like a great 1st project. Cheers!

I'm moving to a new home and will probably need some new furniture. A new slab top coffee table or sofa table might just be in order. Thank you for the tips. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

This is an excellent walkthrough Stumpy, you touched on very important points that most 'slab table' vids miss. Thank you again for keeping it grounded and honest.

@XxBloggs

4 ай бұрын

His name isn’t Stumpy.

You have a natural gift of explaining stuff … great work 👌

Nicely timed as I’m in the process of building a live edged table, one thing that surprised me (when I started to look) was that there are multiple small business near me that offer slab flattening.

Hi James, Another great video with spot on details and solid information. I"m a wood turner and on live edge projects I use a Sand-O Flex with 180 grit on the bark areas. It keeps the bake looking natural but gives it a nice "soft" feel and no longer feels rough etc. Give it a try. Take Care, Myles

This was great with a lot of helpful tips! Thanks for sharing this.

Once again superior content. I always thought slabs would be large and difficult to work with. Going to Rockler soon to see about buying one.

Great video James, thanks for the information about do it yourself Live end tables and how to do it yourself. Fred.

So much value in this video! Much appreciated.

Very useful and enjoyable. The Brandon Woodworking Club's monthly meeting is tonight at the Brandon Rockler store so I'll check out slabs and legs.

Really good advice. I'm going have to try this. Thanks!

Awesome ideas for a simple live edge table

Nice project, thanks much.

I had no idea Rockler offered this; thanks for spending my money! 😁

I'm inspired. Always though slabs were probably too expensive but never really looked! Slab and legs are on their way and I'm excited to build a table in an afternoon!

New to woodworking and consuming so much content on youtube. I have to say that your videos are by far my favourite. Looking forward to more!

@nsudatta-roy8154

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! What equipment do you have, so far? Do you have a particular "niche" in mind? I build custom cabinetry.

@blueclaws9894

Жыл бұрын

I'm also new, just built a sloppy but usable bench for my lathe. Also have consumed a lot of info from YT about using a lathe and what can be done with it.

@carljones9933

Жыл бұрын

Lplllp

@carljones9933

Жыл бұрын

Lplllp

Very beautiful table. ❤️

Ahhhh, James, so great to see two small drips on the underside when you're measuring for the leg installation at 8:13. Even with a wipe on poly like Arm-R-Seal, they can still happen! Glad to know I'm not alone. LOL! Also, great choice with Canarywood. Love that stuff.

@zigzag8392

Жыл бұрын

Poly oil tends to ooze for an hour or two after the first wipe off. (FYI I’m mixing by my own 50/50 minwax polyurethane and boiled linseed.) I wipe it every fifteen minutes until I stop finding drips.

I learn something new with every single video of yours that I watch. This time was the paper bag sandpaper substitute. Great stuff

@theonecalledstein

Жыл бұрын

I learned that trick when I worked at a restoration shop as a teenager. First time I've seen it on KZread. Great tip.

@kenbrown2808

Жыл бұрын

back in the dark ages, I finished a wood turning project by flipping the finest grit sandpaper over and buffing it with the paper backing.it just seemed like the best way to get a smooth finish.

@razetw

Жыл бұрын

I've seen brown bag before but never knew what grit equivalent it was til now thanks!

Awesome table. I've made them from lumber I milled with a chainsaw and left to air dry for years. Your way looks much easier.

Great video! Thanks for all the useful information.

I like Rockler. They're a bit pricey, but they have a large inventory, high quality products, and great customer service. I've ordered exotic hardwoods and custom milled cabinet doors from them in the past.

I built a slab and epoxy table over four years ago, owner wanted the bark left on. I used the RTG wood rot repair epoxy on the bark first, probably 3 coats. still has all the bark. Pretty close to a semi gloss finish. Keep the videos coming!

@survivalsearcher

Жыл бұрын

I just built a desk and left some bark on. I epoxied it in hopes it would keep it on. Fingers crossed 🤞

@Chris.Davies

Жыл бұрын

I used a wood hardener to get the same effect. Can report good outcome!

@Keithmwalton

Жыл бұрын

If it was properly dried the bark will eventually come off

@bilnitro

Жыл бұрын

@@Keithmwalton the epoxy I used soaked through the bark, you could actually see it wetting the wood past the bark.

@oldkingcrow777

Жыл бұрын

@@bilnitro awesome. I've wanted to know some tips on how to do this because I love the truly natural look. My rule of thumb so far was if I couldn't pry the bark off with significant force, then I just thinned epoxy and soaked it in. No issues thus far but it's really nice to know my hunch about rot-harderner has been successfully tried by many others

Great video! Thank you. Very useful information.

Love The finish

Great video because I have been wanting to make a live edge table...thanks! I like using #0000 steel wool for reducing the gloss in a finish. Also good for getting rust off of a cast iron surface.

Very cool and easy... right up my alley...🤘🤘

I thought those legs looked a bit odd, too narrow at the bottom…but wow what a beautiful piece of wood! So many projects, but no time…thanks for the video!

Great video and information. I've been flatting my own its work with a router lol

I made a small live-edge padauk side table less than a year into starting woodworking and I definitely felt like you said, that I was somehow "cheating" because it was so easy, certainly considering how much people are charging for similar ones on Etsy.

Buena mesa y sencillo el trabajo realizado además económica buen video. Un saludo.

The good old brown paper bag - been using that for years and I'm always amazed that people don't know about it.

I love the look of that slab

You could also glue some rubber feet to the corners of the legs, where they touch the floor. It might not be as stable as you'd like, but it would be more stable that the current setup. Great video - thank you!

Great video! The table leg design is cool too it seems that you don't have to worry too much about wood expansion.

@rickeykeeton4770

10 ай бұрын

Like the explanation in regards to the wood, but I would think the legs might need a little bracing at least in the corners.

I built a bar top using pecan with the bark still on 5 yrs ago. It has been outside on a covered patio the entire time. So it has been in hot and cold, wet when the rain blows in and in partial sun everyday. With 3 coats of outdoor polyurethane and the bark has never shown any signs that is trying to come loose.

Slab top tables are beautiful, nature is wonderful. I think you are right to swap out the legs as they look wobbly as there are no supporting struts length wise.

Great video. I wish we had that option up north. Let's see a Red Wings project for your friends in Western Canada who love you and the winged wheel.

Just made a slab top for my mid-century rosewood desk, which was too small. Of course, there are no Brazilian rosewood slabs and even Cocobolo is outrageously expensive. I bought a big monkey pod slab that was too large for planing so the seller flattened it with a CNC, which left it a bit rough. I had to fill some small voids with epoxy (no river tables for me, thank you) and added a couple of rosewood bow ties. Took about 10 hours of sanding and adding C channels. The open grain is similar to rosewood but the color is not, so I filled the pores with black grain filler and dyed all of the heartwood using straight orange transtint dye. The result was a perfect match to the 60 year old furniture in my office.

in my area, I can also find slabs on Craig's List for good prices. Rough cut, so you still need to flatten, but it's nice to go and pick out the exact piece you want.

You're the best, Stumpy!!!!

That Canary wood is just gorgeous.

Outstanding!!!!!

Thanks for the video and tips. Still need to finish my 2" thick black walnut live edge. Wood was free :) Testing with 10 light coats amber shellac on a piece of scrap look awesome! Get that sweet "shimmer / iridescence" from the grain. I tried a couple of film finishes - meh.

You just broke isnt cheaper to build or buy thing… you made a million woodworking spouses honest with this video. 👍🏼👍🏼

Lovely job

I use the brown paper bag too. It's a great buffer. Hard to get them anymore around here...

My wife and I make live edge slab furniture. One factor to consider for cost/difficulty of making it is the sourcing of the materials. Yes, you can get slabs cheaply on the internet or at a garage sale, FB Marketplace, etc. But in our own personal business we like to consider the source of the wood, support local lumber shops, etc. We also like to support shops that use green energy sources such as powering their equipment with solar or wind. We also strive to only take down trees that were coming down anyway vs someone clearcutting lots of trees in the Brazilian rainforest. This is not to say it is in any way "wrong" to buy cheap slabs off the internet (We do that too!) but we do have to charge more for our furniture because of these factors. Something to think about for those who do want to get into the slab business.

@StumpyNubs

Жыл бұрын

If I was making slab furniture for a living, I would get a Wood-Mizer and make some friends with all the local tree services.

@aualdrich

Жыл бұрын

@@StumpyNubs Very cool! Not as much as I expected cost-wise. Thanks!

Would love to try making a slab table myself! No comparison to what I've seen sold online. And I just started following you on IG.

@SomeDudeOnline

Жыл бұрын

I recommend you watch some blacktail studios videos as well. He does a lot of slab tables and has a lot of good tips (like using C-channels to help prevent warping or doing a temporary finish before filling voids with tinted epoxy so that the tint doesn't stain the wood) as well as a lot of detail on those tips. He also includes links to everything he uses. He uses a lot of expensive tools but I still find it very helpful for the cheaper items.

Recently found your channel AND recently made a small work bench, from red oak plywood 3/4", using pocket screws to secure it. The work bench is for my first real woodworking tool, a lathe. I've watched your video on how to identify wood that isn't properly dried, but was curious if you have any other advice for a beginner? I'll check through your videos as well. I think you also had a beginner lathe video, but it didn't go into a lot of detail (or it could have been someone else's video). Thanks for the content!

Although I'm just a weekend novice, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and perspective!

Ordered!

Finished a giant executive style 2" Acacia slab desk with Armor seal, beautiful stuff.

Nicely done - I'd think about using inserts for a couple reasons - take apart / assembly multiple times, and stronger connection -

A brown paper bag! Wow thank you so much 😁

This is the kind of series I could get into. How to make overpriced furniture at home cheaper and better. Love little videos like this.

@inmyimage1081

3 ай бұрын

Thar actually would be a great channel/video series 👍

This was great! I really appreciate how you broke this down. I don't know if you tend to sell the pieces you create. But if you do, what platform do you find the most success with? And what price would you sell this for? I'm going to try to create some of these and see what works. Thanks!

Nice job!

Thanks for the truth James!

well done sir

Another great video

No matter what, I'd probably still have to spend many hours filling in pin hole with either a ca glue solution or thinned out table epoxy (or both). Personally, I'd not go this route. However, if you don't have a planer or router sled or no access to a wide belt sander etc, then this would be very time saving at the cost of getting thinner stock. Personally, I like 1.5 to 1-3/4 thickness for a table or thicker if I'm using c channels or something like that (to negotiate wood movement). happy wood working!

Wow. You got that canary wood for a song... lol

When you called out the brass-bristle brush, I was expecting you to say a steel wire brush might leave shards in the wood, which might lead to rust spots some day. Nope.

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

High end beautiful slab furniture with high end finishing and hardware is very labor-intensive and takes a lot of time and tools. There's a reason real slab furniture, done right, is expensive.

Thanks so much

Great video. Do you expect any further warping or twisting from such a slab? I have plenty of Macrocarpa slabs and was considering to use them as they are, but I am out very experienced and I am afraid that they would bend later on

My live edge slab is in my back yard. I am using a chain saw mill. So far, I have not found any hardware in the tree. I should have the slabs snickered and drying by the weekend. Like you, I am not a huge fan of live edge. Therefore, I plan on donating to a charity auction or two next year.

Bark does not have to come off. I made walnut cribbage boards, up to four feet long leaving the bark on, it has stayed on for the last fourty years no issues!

spent the day slabbing up some old logs I had lying around. 2" thick most of 'em. We'll see how they look in a year or two.

Thank you for another great video! Does this finish stand up to heat such as from a hot cup of tea?

This is a big brain video right here.

We have several people in our area that sell slabs on marketplace. A few will flatten them and have very good prices.

Although I feel the same way about bark, I do occasionally see some very old pieces of furniture (50 plus years) with the bark still on and still tight! I wish this was predictable at the time it is made.

Cost you half price of the fake but fake not very expensive. You have a huge professional shop and storage space. I could have done what you did in my small space. Fine for us making something for selves or as a gift. But, if we were planning on selling it as professionals, we'd have to pay ourselves a proper rate, include cost of sales: shop rental, utilities, tool costs, etc so real price would be 2 or 3 times the fake - which takes us into a different type of customer. Great tip about paper bag. Love those legs with adjustable feet - will look for them in UK. Good video, as usual

The brash brush is a brush from steel? Already learned a lot from you. Translation is sometimes difficult 😅.

Thank you

Very nice

I just found a few large red maple logs in the woods near my house. I haven’t cut them up yet but it appears they may be partially spalted

That was an excellent tutorial. Thanks for the effort. When I first saw those legs, though, I cringed because my little grandkids would tip that over onto themselves in a heartbeat. I never want to make something that could injure a child.

Paying amount was a GREAT price.!! Mills by us are out of control!

What type of finish would you recommend if making a live edge dining table?

Not bad at all. Some missed steps that I noticed. A C-bar to keep the thing from warping further over time. I didn't see you check for moisture, but you also aren't sealing the thing in resin so it isn't as big of a deal. Filling in the holes they missed is relatively simple (CA and some sawdust from the cut you made). But that's it. The rest of it is damned near perfect, and I enjoyed watching this. Gave me some good insights into small stuff I would miss on my own.

Can u buff with one of those buffer attachments for a drill or not so much? Thanks!

Ahhh….. canary wood… Tarara Amarillo….. a beautiful species, and fairly hard and durable. Some pieces will have yellow, red and green streaks all together which can be quite impressive.