I think epoxy sort of makes everything look better. Or at least more shiny and smooth, which is sort of the same thing. Basically it covers a lot of sins in materials. But yeah, still a nice looking desk.
One of the things I appreciate most about your videos is that you show the work and time that goes into even the simple projects. There is so much more time and effort involved than most people would ever realize.
I've done something similar to this on a surface made with lots of glued strips of veneer. Instead of paint I used a spirits-based wood dye. The dye gets much deeper into the cracks so you can really sand a bunch off the top and still have the prominent black outlines where the pieces meet.
Any video that shows the trial and error within the whole process gets all my kudos. Great video. Hopefully you feel a lot of pride in it, cause I'm sure proud of ya!
I framed in a 2ft wall around my patio to pour concrete. When I removed the OSB the wall had a what I consider a beautiful OSB pattern it has been 20 years and I still love it. Besides that OSB in Napa is going for about $65 a sheet so you can’t really say it’s cheap. Desk looks beautiful, had you considered putting thin-ish coat of black epoxy on an then sanding would help with chip out and held the black in the low spots. Thank you for sharing
I got the same surprising but pleasing effect on the concrete planters I made for 4 fruit trees on our patio,I obviously told my wife that I had planned it all along😁I painted them white. She then decided to paint them chocolate brown and dry brushed them with some butterscotch and terracotta and now they look like some sort of weave work of natural materials,and much better than my white.
I had the same idea about epoxy and I might actually try it myself for my small workbench. I love the idea of OSB textured concrete! I have some old ugly odd bits of OSB in my garage so I might try making a simple concrete slab to try out the texture and experiment on this type of finish with the rest of the scrap. Thank you both for the cool ideas! I absolutely love the industrial look of concrete and OSB and that sort of stuff.
Gotta look for it on offerup and stuff like that because man oh man there’s too many people that have bundles of wood for sale for way cheaper than retail
It's funny, watching this, I was thinking "well, that's way too agressive on the sanding." Then you said that. Then I was like "well, that's not a lot better, all the paint's gone," then you said that. Then I thought, "better just flip it over and start again," and you did that. Finally I thought, "I think you'd have to sand it by hand." And success! The way you structured this video really drove the process home, very cool.
It's neat that you're not afraid to experiment and try new things. It turned out pretty nice. I still think it would be better (more beautiful, cheaper, easier) to use 3/4 ply. But if you're happy with the final result that's all that matters
I've used OSB for shelving and have really enjoyed the look of it. Some I finished with a clear coat, some with paint. I used a high build primer under the paint. It filled in the minor voids and smoothed the flake edges. Sanding is tricky and should be done very lightly.
I was thinking instead of paint it should be something that adds to the structure of the chips so they don't tear out, like resin with pigment in it and then you put resin over it anyway. In any case it was a great idea and a really nice result! 👍
I did this ten years ago with a nice piece of OSB and then put bar top on it and it really brought out the different wood pieces. Hard wood trim. Still love it today
What a crazy coincidence, Man about Tools covered the walls of his shop in something similar just a few days ago, and it looked great there too. good work! great minds think alike
Andrew, you are the man! Looks great, it was like watching myself work because everything you did I would have done as well (including the initial attempts then turning it over) It's interesting using uncommon materials for projects!
I'd recommend trying this project with PSL (Parallel strand lumber) The texture and grain direction is more linear and pronounced. I've made a few successful projects with it, and in my opinion, the grain is much more attractive than OSB although its a similar idea.
Beautiful, Andrew! Really well done! 😃 I've seen once someone use OSB for cabinet doors, but the person only sanded what needed and applied the epoxy. With no paint. And let me tell you something... It turned out great as well! 😃 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I wanted to add some shelves to my home office. My dad suggested some leftover OSB he has and I was like, no! I want nice looking shelves, a good quality wood to work with. But, I got to thinking on it and so I went to YT, if anyone else has done this, it's gonna here. Your desk looks amazing. I am sold on this! Not gonna rebuild my desk but I am gonna do for some shelves. Thank you! Your desk looks incredible.
My idea would’ve been black epoxy, it would add some strength to the loose fibers and act as a surface for the sander instead of the sander catching on edges and pulling them up. This is pretty awesome! I might try this too, I’ll combine your techniques and lessons with black epoxy and see how that works. Maybe throw a bit of graphite powder into the equation and hope for the best.
Did you ever pursue this? Any pics? I'm working on a similar project and was thinking a steel wool and vinegar black stain and then epoxy might look cool and Skip the sanding of the osb as well .
1993 i moved into a house in hogansville ga, guy had built all his kitchen countertops out of osb then epoxied over it. well was epoxy or some kind of clear resin. was absolutely beautiful.
is there any way you could outline the products you used for this project? Pain, epoxy, etc. I am looking to do something similar with my desk and it would be great to have that knowledge. I love the way this turned out!
For long term stability you need to seal the underside of the desk. It will absorb moisture from the room over time and distort the flatness of the desk.
Might not make much of a difference with the desk base attached on the bottom, should help keep it relatively flat since it's lengths of steel or aluminum.
I used 5/8" AdvanTech subflooring for my wall mounted kitchen cabinet doors (8ft long shelf unit with three ovehead doors.) You can get great looks with this material using colored dyes. Say you paint the whole thing with dark blue dye then sand it and then use green dye. You get a two color surface. There are lots of dye colors, yellow and green look good. The doors are heavy but with the right Blum lifts they open and close like a dream or stay in any position. The material is very stable, waterproof, easy to cut, and takes a screw. I like even the plain look of it just sand off the manufacturers stencils and varnish it and it mellows to a honey color. Note, they do a subfloor version of this and a sheathing version. The subfloor is sanded whilst the sheathing is rougher. I love this material, it reminds me of leaves on the forest floor. Thanks for this video.
i still think you over-sanded, just sand 1x it looked great! your finished product is cool. we are gonna do it with gold but i am only gonna sand 1full pass! then epoxy. it makes it look like marble. we are building a deck..... thx for the idea Bro! it was a good creative flow....
Thanks for including mistakes, we all make them…and we all learn from them. I’m inherently cheap (wish my wife was), so always looking for a cool project that’s cheap (get a kick out of bragging on how nice but cheap my furniture is) but also beautiful. Great job looks awesome.
My Dad spent weeks making bookcases for the folks family room, and installed them while Mom was out of town visiting a new grand baby. He did someone very similar filling and sanding several times to get the look he wanted. Mom’s vision of bookcases was oak. So, he covered all his hard work with Oak laminate, and an Oak face frame. The trick to get high contrast is to squeegee in a very thick paint, and force the paint down into the pores of the OSB.
I like the look of OSB and your finishing and black paint highlights what I like about it. Cool idea I may borrow this one as inspiration! Thanks mang!
I grew up with a woodworker father and got into it myself about 15 years ago. For some reason, I'm a sucker for sheet-good furniture. I'm particularly fond of end grain plywood stuff. OSB has always been fascinating to me with all of the texture. Good to see I'm not the only weirdo in the bunch. The desk looks amazing.
Thanks for sharing your process/failures/success with bringing out the beauty of the OSB. I think I'll try this with a carmel/maple paint for the walls of my shop.
hey that is a cool desk. I like how you integrated the mouse mat into the desk. for all Swiss people I do have similar standing desk products available.
I really enjoyed the video, I like and appreciate that you left in the “didn’t work so well” part. The finished product is eye catching and quite unique. Thanks for sharing
What helps with that is putting down a few coats of clear matte primer then a coat of satin clear primer. That helps keep the chips in place and fills in the holes to keep things in place and also saves on paint. After all four coats the surface should be smooth with hardly much texture. Sand areas in one foot square sections. Use as little pressure as possible until whole first layer of square is all done then go from there, going with the grain on larger chuncks. The small area helps with attention to details and from getting gouges. My dad was a professional carpenter and had many many pieces in the parade of homes. He would use this stuff to make cheap furniture for college kids or to use in plays. Thanks for the video, reminds me of the 80's when this was the trend.
To answer the question from my perspective: At 78 dollars a sheet it's ugly as hell but I had a building that the walls and ceiling were OSB so I painted them it looked ok, but I was looking for something more and I discovered a cheap method of applying paper that was intended for floors called paper bag floors. I decided I would try this on the walls and ceiling it turned out awesome, it was cheap but labor intensive but very rewarding, I covered everything with it , 2x4s, block walls. I can clean it easily being it's a polyurethane finish. So yes OSB can be nice , paper bags walls are a artistic expression that can be personal in that the sky is the limit in the effects you can create. Love the video.
I've always liked the look of OSB. My dad used it in an old Ford van we had. At the time, it was called Aspenite (iirc). My thoughts on a project like this are to sand it to get it smooth, then stain and epoxy. That motorized setup is a trip
I've done somthing similar in the past for walls. I did one coat of epoxy first, kids water-based craft paint, sand by hand with a sanding sponge, then some finish coats of epoxy. The kids craft paint is key as it allows you to reveal alot of OSB without removing much of any wood. The first coat of epoxy is done so the water based paint does'nt stain the pine OSB.
I colored OSB with walnut ink (brou de noix), without sanding. It’s a traditional (and cheap) product very commonly used in France for woodworking. It’s effective yet transparent. It doesn't hide details, iccumulates a bit more in cracks, some chips also absorb it a bit more or less than others, so at the end you can see your wood but with a lot more contrast and details. I varnished it at the end. The result definitely doesn't look like OSB. I plan to use this for a kitchen next year.
Don’t know why UA-cam recommended me this video but I’m glad it did! What a great result you got Fingers crossed I can use this for a couple of shelves I want to make Thank you
I have some Canadian OSB that I used for the walls of my garage, and it looks like it has so much potential...then I saw this video! One thing I would have done....after the black paint and sand, I would have gone back on the OSB with an aniline dye. Blue and black would have looked killer, especially after the epoxy pour!
I'm a cabinetmaker by trade. I was once at a customer's house and I noticed a chest of drawers with an interesting veneer. When I got closer to get a better look, I noticed it was just particle board. Your osb table looks nice.
I did this with red green yellow blue panels. Liquidy thin coat of black scraped across is best. Then hand sand off. Then Spray paint and/or stain the wood. The atomised paint is thin enough to cover without killing the black. I did it with spray cans and finished with clear spray all over 2 days and they turned out great. Even weatherproof after 2 years.
I tried something very similar with amazing effects that is still durable today. I wanted to create 120 square feet of strong durable tough work surfaces for my garage/shop. I glued up 1 1/2 inch think OSB. I used a strong ethanol mix to remove the lines out of the osb. OKAY HERE is the important part, I thinned down Minwas PolyAcrylic finish until it was pretty thin. I flooded the entire area with a roller of it, sides etc Back then it was cheap, now it is crazy priced, but worth it. Let it dry for a few days. - -This hardens all of the fibers, including the cork near the bark edge pieces. All of the small pieces become rock hard. I sanded it down with a belt sander and had much less chip out. I finished with the belt at 120, and finished it all to 400. -I took some candlelight gel stain, with some steel wool in it. I coated it with a foam roller, then wiped excess after 10 min. It will not penetrate all of the OSB because of the polyacrylic, but most. You have a very organic leaf stain version with no yellowing, because of the poly. I then put the above Minwax Poly over all of work surfaces and threw on some hardwood edges. -The OSB is flat, and silky smooth. It still has pleasant texture when you touch, and a sheet of paper can still glide across. You have outlines where the stain could not penetrate highlighting the areas it down. The poly really makes it tough also to with stand heavy metal beating on it as well. Everyone who sees it, immediately wants to touch it and ask what it is. I knocked down some of the gloss to semi with 400 grit. Very good wood look also. I made cabinets using OSB that same way also, but used dark brown stain. Areas that received hardware, like door hinges I used FS epoxy to harden the wood fibers. Try it. Polyacryl is stupid expensive right now though.
That's really cool and great looking! perhaps you can buy black dye, and mix up a batch of quickset drywall mud with the black dye, add in some pva glue to give the plaster strength, and then skim the osb with that. it should sand much easier and prevent tear out as well. you could even use an orbital since the mud is easy to sand.
Very cool effect! What if you painted it on liberally but while it's still wet wipe off the excess with a rag to completely avoid potentially damaging the pattern?
I'm actually watching this video to avoid any possible errors I may experience with OSB. *What I learned: Immediately when I saw the belt sander, I thought, oh no! Then, I thought, what grit is he using? 60? or 40? 80 is where I would start because of those scratches heavy grit would leave. I really liked the idea of using a putty knife to apply the paint. Block sanding is the way to go. You are trying not to dig, but sort of plane the surface. In the end, great work!
OSB is the GND that looks hot once a month. It's a toal trash wood product that you just wish they took seriously in the laminating process, but it's tearing in the chips not the glue. My Dad did this in the 90s with lime wash in between exposed beams in his farm house. With 3 foot centres at 12 feet high it looked great!
Hi Andy, I'm building a house right now and have a ton of OSB scraps that I bring to the high school woodshop that we use for wood projects, the students and I are loving the projects
friend of mine did the floor in his trailer with luan plywood a couple decades ago. He took a sharpie and yard stick and drew lines about 2" apart and connected them at odd intervals then sealed the floor with Fabulon and it looked like an expensive hardwood floor so he could sell the trailer. Where there's a will there's a way. I like the grain on the desk, If you had used a gray stain it might also look like a granite desk.
As a kid I went to a Museum in South Africa in the early 90’s . The entire floor to the main reception area was Stirling board but a hard wood and soft wood mix . Then they poured what I know today to be resin coated flooring . Once polished it look absolutely amazing and so smooth to the touch but squeaky on your shoes everyone n school trip was squeaking 😅. That table looks a little like that floor very modern very contemporary
Having done this sort of thing, I found using shellac as a sanding coat stabilizes the OSB. There is no reason stain or dye couldn't be added to the shellac. It drys fast and you could fill and build the basecoat to get the look you're going for. Because it's an alcohol based product it should not have adverse effects on your top coa.t
Put a suspended ceiling in kitchen area. I painted all of the t-bar a dark satin brown, cut out 2x2 panels where there was no inking, and gave each panel three coats of Danish oil. Has been up thirteen years, and has received many compliments and questions on where I bought those beautiful tiles 😂
I've painted OSB. And stained it. Staining is interesting as different parts of the OSB take stain differently. Clear coats are a good finish. Light sanding with an orbital sander between coats are recommended. There are all kinds of interesting effects you can get. All in all, it is different and an acquired taste.
My grandparents walls in their house was all like this. The walls also had a thick film on them from them always smoking inside. I don't know exactly when the house was built but my memories of it come from the 1970's.
my uncle made a kitchen floor out of OSB, he cut it into 15x30in tiles, then run the tiles through a drum sander and beveled the edges. after that he stained the wood and coated it in several coats of a high gloss polyurethane to fill voids and prevent chipping. it almost turned out looking like marble tile but you could spike a cast iron skillet like a football without any fear of damaged flooring. i feel like if you used a dark woodstain after sanding instead of the black paint beforehand it might end up closer to what you were looking for
Very cool idea especially when lumber is crazy, I was about finished with the video when I went to check how many views it had, and WOW I expected 100k at least. Great job, and I hope the algorithm youTube gods promote this golden chestnut. Thanks for sharing, have a great one! Dropped a like & finished the video.
I am a carpenter and joiner and have NEVER liked OSB but this looks good! Well done!
I appreciate you keeping an open mind, you can see from some comments that not everyone does.
@@AndrewKleinWW Very inexpensive, unique and eye-catching! What's not to like!
I think epoxy sort of makes everything look better. Or at least more shiny and smooth, which is sort of the same thing. Basically it covers a lot of sins in materials. But yeah, still a nice looking desk.
@@AndrewKleinWW FYI the music really annoyed me and I stopped watching.
Have you think to burn with a gas lamp the OSB and afther sandpaper to obtain same result?
One of the things I appreciate most about your videos is that you show the work and time that goes into even the simple projects. There is so much more time and effort involved than most people would ever realize.
I've done something similar to this on a surface made with lots of glued strips of veneer. Instead of paint I used a spirits-based wood dye. The dye gets much deeper into the cracks so you can really sand a bunch off the top and still have the prominent black outlines where the pieces meet.
Good idea.
I see you CBS
Any video that shows the trial and error within the whole process gets all my kudos. Great video. Hopefully you feel a lot of pride in it, cause I'm sure proud of ya!
I framed in a 2ft wall around my patio to pour concrete. When I removed the OSB the wall had a what I consider a beautiful OSB pattern it has been 20 years and I still love it. Besides that OSB in Napa is going for about $65 a sheet so you can’t really say it’s cheap.
Desk looks beautiful, had you considered putting thin-ish coat of black epoxy on an then sanding would help with chip out and held the black in the low spots. Thank you for sharing
Yes, the black epoxy idea has some potential for sure.
Snap a thin layer of black epoxy would have worked (messier and harder to rub down) was my 1st thought after the beltsanding
I got the same surprising but pleasing effect on the concrete planters I made for 4 fruit trees on our patio,I obviously told my wife that I had planned it all along😁I painted them white. She then decided to paint them chocolate brown and dry brushed them with some butterscotch and terracotta and now they look like some sort of weave work of natural materials,and much better than my white.
I had the same idea about epoxy and I might actually try it myself for my small workbench.
I love the idea of OSB textured concrete! I have some old ugly odd bits of OSB in my garage so I might try making a simple concrete slab to try out the texture and experiment on this type of finish with the rest of the scrap.
Thank you both for the cool ideas! I absolutely love the industrial look of concrete and OSB and that sort of stuff.
Gotta look for it on offerup and stuff like that because man oh man there’s too many people that have bundles of wood for sale for way cheaper than retail
It's funny, watching this, I was thinking "well, that's way too agressive on the sanding." Then you said that. Then I was like "well, that's not a lot better, all the paint's gone," then you said that. Then I thought, "better just flip it over and start again," and you did that. Finally I thought, "I think you'd have to sand it by hand." And success! The way you structured this video really drove the process home, very cool.
The force is with you.
Same here, haha.
Personally I thought the black paint looked best 🤣😂
It was super obvious the belt sander was too much with the camera perspective and time lapse.
Me looking other video and thinking about "osb can be beautiful?"
Scrolled down, next video to this one, now they read our minds
It's neat that you're not afraid to experiment and try new things. It turned out pretty nice. I still think it would be better (more beautiful, cheaper, easier) to use 3/4 ply. But if you're happy with the final result that's all that matters
I've used OSB for shelving and have really enjoyed the look of it. Some I finished with a clear coat, some with paint. I used a high build primer under the paint. It filled in the minor voids and smoothed the flake edges. Sanding is tricky and should be done very lightly.
I was thinking instead of paint it should be something that adds to the structure of the chips so they don't tear out, like resin with pigment in it and then you put resin over it anyway. In any case it was a great idea and a really nice result! 👍
Thats exactly what I was thinking! Prob a lot less work too lol. Frame it, simple 2-part resin epoxy, wetsand and hit it w/a buffer!
I did this ten years ago with a nice piece of OSB and then put bar top on it and it really brought out the different wood pieces. Hard wood trim. Still love it today
That desk came out surprisingly beautiful!! Really nice dedication to see it through!! Great job Andrew!!
Love the return to normal speed for the roller loading bit during the paint sequence. Gotta give the people what they want! :P
What a crazy coincidence, Man about Tools covered the walls of his shop in something similar just a few days ago, and it looked great there too. good work! great minds think alike
Wow that is crazy, just watched the video, very similar
Andrew, you are the man! Looks great, it was like watching myself work because everything you did I would have done as well (including the initial attempts then turning it over) It's interesting using uncommon materials for projects!
Nailed it :)
Thanks, glad you think so, it was looking pretty bleak half way through, its always the projects that you think are going to be simple that get ya!
I didn’t see any nails used in this project.
The desk is beautiful man, i can only imagine how proud you were. Great job.
I'd recommend trying this project with PSL (Parallel strand lumber) The texture and grain direction is more linear and pronounced. I've made a few successful projects with it, and in my opinion, the grain is much more attractive than OSB although its a similar idea.
What's pumpkin spice lattes got to do with... Ohhhh.
Never thought a pumpkin spice latte could make a good piece of furniture
Andrew, hai le mani d'oro! Un saluto da Firenze
Beautiful, Andrew! Really well done! 😃
I've seen once someone use OSB for cabinet doors, but the person only sanded what needed and applied the epoxy. With no paint. And let me tell you something... It turned out great as well! 😃
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Cool, thanks, you stay safe as well
I wanted to add some shelves to my home office. My dad suggested some leftover OSB he has and I was like, no! I want nice looking shelves, a good quality wood to work with. But, I got to thinking on it and so I went to YT, if anyone else has done this, it's gonna here. Your desk looks amazing. I am sold on this! Not gonna rebuild my desk but I am gonna do for some shelves. Thank you! Your desk looks incredible.
This is really great to hear and such a motivation to keep putting content out there, glad I could help.
I could have used double-sided tape for the mouse pad, but I liked the idea of the mouse pad built into the table, I'll stick with it
thats the only part that made me scratch my head, i know those plastic pad's get deadspots after only a few months of use
That is looking FLY, man!!! Talk about creativity!!! You constantly amaze and never disappoint!
My idea would’ve been black epoxy, it would add some strength to the loose fibers and act as a surface for the sander instead of the sander catching on edges and pulling them up.
This is pretty awesome! I might try this too, I’ll combine your techniques and lessons with black epoxy and see how that works. Maybe throw a bit of graphite powder into the equation and hope for the best.
Spot on
Did you ever pursue this? Any pics? I'm working on a similar project and was thinking a steel wool and vinegar black stain and then epoxy might look cool and Skip the sanding of the osb as well .
1993 i moved into a house in hogansville ga, guy had built all his kitchen countertops out of osb then epoxied over it. well was epoxy or some kind of clear resin. was absolutely beautiful.
is there any way you could outline the products you used for this project? Pain, epoxy, etc. I am looking to do something similar with my desk and it would be great to have that knowledge. I love the way this turned out!
I'd probably guess oriented strand board ~1" thick, black acrylic/latex paint, and a high gloss polyurethane topcoat.
Awesome. It’s refreshing to see the initial mistakes and the corresponding solutions evolve. 👍
Now take a photo of the OSB desk and use it as a desktop wallpaper on the confuser.
I have seen it used - sanded and varnished - in restaurants. The way the flakes catch the light is unique and attractive.
For long term stability you need to seal the underside of the desk.
It will absorb moisture from the room over time and distort the flatness of the desk.
Might not make much of a difference with the desk base attached on the bottom, should help keep it relatively flat since it's lengths of steel or aluminum.
No it wont.
I used 5/8" AdvanTech subflooring for my wall mounted kitchen cabinet doors (8ft long shelf unit with three ovehead doors.) You can get great looks with this material using colored dyes. Say you paint the whole thing with dark blue dye then sand it and then use green dye. You get a two color surface. There are lots of dye colors, yellow and green look good. The doors are heavy but with the right Blum lifts they open and close like a dream or stay in any position. The material is very stable, waterproof, easy to cut, and takes a screw. I like even the plain look of it just sand off the manufacturers stencils and varnish it and it mellows to a honey color. Note, they do a subfloor version of this and a sheathing version. The subfloor is sanded whilst the sheathing is rougher.
I love this material, it reminds me of leaves on the forest floor. Thanks for this video.
It looks great! I appreciate you showing us the trial and error process you went through
You bet, always good to see the miss-steps
Beautiful finishing. It looks like a real painting.
i still think you over-sanded, just sand 1x it looked great! your finished product is cool. we are gonna do it with gold but i am only gonna sand 1full pass! then epoxy. it makes it look like marble. we are building a deck..... thx for the idea Bro! it was a good creative flow....
Thanks for including mistakes, we all make them…and we all learn from them. I’m inherently cheap (wish my wife was), so always looking for a cool project that’s cheap (get a kick out of bragging on how nice but cheap my furniture is) but also beautiful. Great job looks awesome.
Admirable application to the job. Fab finish. Idea proved!
My Dad spent weeks making bookcases for the folks family room, and installed them while Mom was out of town visiting a new grand baby. He did someone very similar filling and sanding several times to get the look he wanted. Mom’s vision of bookcases was oak. So, he covered all his hard work with Oak laminate, and an Oak face frame.
The trick to get high contrast is to squeegee in a very thick paint, and force the paint down into the pores of the OSB.
I never thought OSB Could Look SO GOOD! NICE JOB!
I like the look of OSB and your finishing and black paint highlights what I like about it. Cool idea I may borrow this one as inspiration! Thanks mang!
i liked your idea, i never thought osb would look so beautiful, its so nice.
I grew up with a woodworker father and got into it myself about 15 years ago. For some reason, I'm a sucker for sheet-good furniture. I'm particularly fond of end grain plywood stuff. OSB has always been fascinating to me with all of the texture. Good to see I'm not the only weirdo in the bunch. The desk looks amazing.
Amazing.. mousepad bump adds character... Love it !
Thanks for sharing your process/failures/success with bringing out the beauty of the OSB. I think I'll try this with a carmel/maple paint for the walls of my shop.
hey that is a cool desk. I like how you integrated the mouse mat into the desk. for all Swiss people I do have similar standing desk products available.
I really enjoyed the video, I like and appreciate that you left in the “didn’t work so well” part. The finished product is eye catching and quite unique. Thanks for sharing
I can say it can,made the desk for my brother and looks insane so cheers for this,i did sand everything by hand :D
What helps with that is putting down a few coats of clear matte primer then a coat of satin clear primer. That helps keep the chips in place and fills in the holes to keep things in place and also saves on paint.
After all four coats the surface should be smooth with hardly much texture.
Sand areas in one foot square sections. Use as little pressure as possible until whole first layer of square is all done then go from there, going with the grain on larger chuncks. The small area helps with attention to details and from getting gouges.
My dad was a professional carpenter and had many many pieces in the parade of homes. He would use this stuff to make cheap furniture for college kids or to use in plays.
Thanks for the video, reminds me of the 80's when this was the trend.
To answer the question from my perspective:
At 78 dollars a sheet it's ugly as hell but I had a building that the walls and ceiling were OSB so I painted them it looked ok, but I was looking for something more and I discovered a cheap method of applying paper that was intended for floors called paper bag floors.
I decided I would try this on the walls and ceiling it turned out awesome, it was cheap but labor intensive but very rewarding, I covered everything with it , 2x4s, block walls. I can clean it easily being it's a polyurethane finish. So yes OSB can be nice , paper bags walls are a artistic expression that can be personal in that the sky is the limit in the effects you can create. Love the video.
I've always liked the look of OSB. My dad used it in an old Ford van we had. At the time, it was called Aspenite (iirc).
My thoughts on a project like this are to sand it to get it smooth, then stain and epoxy.
That motorized setup is a trip
I've done somthing similar in the past for walls. I did one coat of epoxy first, kids water-based craft paint, sand by hand with a sanding sponge, then some finish coats of epoxy. The kids craft paint is key as it allows you to reveal alot of OSB without removing much of any wood. The first coat of epoxy is done so the water based paint does'nt stain the pine OSB.
Pretty sweet. Really like the end results and the motorized stand is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to make the video, upload, and share.
- Mike-
I colored OSB with walnut ink (brou de noix), without sanding. It’s a traditional (and cheap) product very commonly used in France for woodworking. It’s effective yet transparent. It doesn't hide details, iccumulates a bit more in cracks, some chips also absorb it a bit more or less than others, so at the end you can see your wood but with a lot more contrast and details. I varnished it at the end. The result definitely doesn't look like OSB. I plan to use this for a kitchen next year.
I've put floor sanders on that stuff and had it turn out beautiful nobody ever believed me thanks for sharing
Don’t know why UA-cam recommended me this video but I’m glad it did! What a great result you got
Fingers crossed I can use this for a couple of shelves I want to make
Thank you
I have some Canadian OSB that I used for the walls of my garage, and it looks like it has so much potential...then I saw this video! One thing I would have done....after the black paint and sand, I would have gone back on the OSB with an aniline dye. Blue and black would have looked killer, especially after the epoxy pour!
I watch this Vedia several times with this great ending finish and music
Congrats 😊
I'm a cabinetmaker by trade. I was once at a customer's house and I noticed a chest of drawers with an interesting veneer. When I got closer to get a better look, I noticed it was just particle board. Your osb table looks nice.
Really cool project. I can imagine using light features at the end of the desk would make the whole table top glow.
I did this with red green yellow blue panels. Liquidy thin coat of black scraped across is best. Then hand sand off. Then Spray paint and/or stain the wood. The atomised paint is thin enough to cover without killing the black. I did it with spray cans and finished with clear spray all over 2 days and they turned out great. Even weatherproof after 2 years.
I tried something very similar with amazing effects that is still durable today. I wanted to create 120 square feet of strong durable tough work surfaces for my garage/shop. I glued up 1 1/2 inch think OSB. I used a strong ethanol mix to remove the lines out of the osb. OKAY HERE is the important part, I thinned down Minwas PolyAcrylic finish until it was pretty thin. I flooded the entire area with a roller of it, sides etc Back then it was cheap, now it is crazy priced, but worth it. Let it dry for a few days. -
-This hardens all of the fibers, including the cork near the bark edge pieces. All of the small pieces become rock hard. I sanded it down with a belt sander and had much less chip out. I finished with the belt at 120, and finished it all to 400.
-I took some candlelight gel stain, with some steel wool in it. I coated it with a foam roller, then wiped excess after 10 min. It will not penetrate all of the OSB because of the polyacrylic, but most. You have a very organic leaf stain version with no yellowing, because of the poly. I then put the above Minwax Poly over all of work surfaces and threw on some hardwood edges.
-The OSB is flat, and silky smooth. It still has pleasant texture when you touch, and a sheet of paper can still glide across. You have outlines where the stain could not penetrate highlighting the areas it down. The poly really makes it tough also to with stand heavy metal beating on it as well.
Everyone who sees it, immediately wants to touch it and ask what it is.
I knocked down some of the gloss to semi with 400 grit. Very good wood look also. I made cabinets using OSB that same way also, but used dark brown stain. Areas that received hardware, like door hinges I used FS epoxy to harden the wood fibers.
Try it. Polyacryl is stupid expensive right now though.
Man!!! This guy really works FAST!!!! 🤔😁😁😁
Looks great. I made my son's desktop with OSB. It turned out awesome, used tinted poly as the finish.
That's really cool and great looking! perhaps you can buy black dye, and mix up a batch of quickset drywall mud with the black dye, add in some pva glue to give the plaster strength, and then skim the osb with that. it should sand much easier and prevent tear out as well. you could even use an orbital since the mud is easy to sand.
Saw a house building show here in the UK where they used OSB to cover all the interior walls, looked pretty cool.
Different and unique. Enjoyable to watch. Thanks
The OSB looks great!! Kinda resembles spalted wood. Very splatted. Congrats on a job well done.
I admire your perseverance despite lots of frustration at first
This came out so much better than I was expecting Andrew, it finished out gteat and your lifting base is nice.
Very cool effect! What if you painted it on liberally but while it's still wet wipe off the excess with a rag to completely avoid potentially damaging the pattern?
Dude... Inlayed mouse pad... Pure genius. Thank you for that epiphany I never had
I'm actually watching this video to avoid any possible errors I may experience with OSB. *What I learned: Immediately when I saw the belt sander, I thought, oh no! Then, I thought, what grit is he using? 60? or 40? 80 is where I would start because of those scratches heavy grit would leave. I really liked the idea of using a putty knife to apply the paint. Block sanding is the way to go. You are trying not to dig, but sort of plane the surface. In the end, great work!
I used 80 on a orbital sander 👍. Worked great
This is very cool, well done👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝
OSB is the GND that looks hot once a month. It's a toal trash wood product that you just wish they took seriously in the laminating process, but it's tearing in the chips not the glue. My Dad did this in the 90s with lime wash in between exposed beams in his farm house. With 3 foot centres at 12 feet high it looked great!
I've seen a floor done in OSB. Stained and finished.... it looked phenomenal.
I saw one in epoxy. It was awful.
I would have never thought OSB could be a nice looking quality finished product. Now I see that I was absolutely correct.
Hi Andy, I'm building a house right now and have a ton of OSB scraps that I bring to the high school woodshop that we use for wood projects, the students and I are loving the projects
Thanks Andrew. Love that you're always innovating.
friend of mine did the floor in his trailer with luan plywood a couple decades ago. He took a sharpie and yard stick and drew lines about 2" apart and connected them at odd intervals then sealed the floor with Fabulon and it looked like an expensive hardwood floor so he could sell the trailer. Where there's a will there's a way.
I like the grain on the desk, If you had used a gray stain it might also look like a granite desk.
Outstanding, as a former delivery loader at Lowe's I can't wait to watch this lol.
I was impressed after the clear coat was applied.
Matt Estlea would be proud. Desk is looking solid! Well done. #OSBArmy
As a kid I went to a Museum in South Africa in the early 90’s . The entire floor to the main reception area was Stirling board but a hard wood and soft wood mix .
Then they poured what I know today to be resin coated flooring .
Once polished it look absolutely amazing and so smooth to the touch but squeaky on your shoes everyone n school trip was squeaking 😅.
That table looks a little like that floor very modern very contemporary
haha...this is something else...i like the way you make your videos...and that is an awesome looking texture! stunning desk!
Turned out really good, your perseverance paid off 🙌
This turned out awesome! Love the effect it has!
Thanks! I used your table top epoxy, great stuff!
@@AndrewKleinWW Awesome! Happy to hear it!
Having done this sort of thing, I found using shellac as a sanding coat stabilizes the OSB. There is no reason stain or dye couldn't be added to the shellac. It drys fast and you could fill and build the basecoat to get the look you're going for. Because it's an alcohol based product it should not have adverse effects on your top coa.t
I'm gonna do a subwoofer box like this.
Maybe with a burned/deep cherry finish.
Japanese method. Should look cool.
Nice work. I do like your desk.
Watching you, wishing you were closer. Would have loaned you a Rotex for your sanding.
Turned out great. You kept at it. The result speaks for itself.
Put a suspended ceiling in kitchen area. I painted all of the t-bar a dark satin brown, cut out 2x2 panels where there was no inking, and gave each panel three coats of Danish oil. Has been up thirteen years, and has received many compliments and questions on where I bought those beautiful tiles 😂
Holy hell that turned out cool af!! Props to your creativity.
thought it looked surprisingly good Andrew, that standing desk hardware looks great as well.
I've painted OSB. And stained it. Staining is interesting as different parts of the OSB take stain differently. Clear coats are a good finish. Light sanding with an orbital sander between coats are recommended. There are all kinds of interesting effects you can get. All in all, it is different and an acquired taste.
My grandparents walls in their house was all like this. The walls also had a thick film on them from them always smoking inside. I don't know exactly when the house was built but my memories of it come from the 1970's.
my uncle made a kitchen floor out of OSB, he cut it into 15x30in tiles, then run the tiles through a drum sander and beveled the edges. after that he stained the wood and coated it in several coats of a high gloss polyurethane to fill voids and prevent chipping. it almost turned out looking like marble tile but you could spike a cast iron skillet like a football without any fear of damaged flooring. i feel like if you used a dark woodstain after sanding instead of the black paint beforehand it might end up closer to what you were looking for
Very cool idea especially when lumber is crazy, I was about finished with the video when I went to check how many views it had, and WOW I expected 100k at least. Great job, and I hope the algorithm youTube gods promote this golden chestnut. Thanks for sharing, have a great one! Dropped a like & finished the video.
well, I just posted it, so give it time, thanks for the comment and the encouragement
Painted OSB looks great
What a cool way to end a video. Probably the most original I have ever seen.
Nice project too. Im probably going to copy that from you.
Thanks, copy this all you want
Love the inventiveness, a bit of Jackson Pollock there, not sure of the emotional stimulation from the intensified randomness.
Amazing result, well done 😎
I still can’t believe that you managed to make osb look so beautiful.
Very nice! I've done a few furniture projects with OSB. Stain & polyurethane make it look like some bizarre alien exotic wood.