Every time you say "map," I have flashbacks to pilot training and my instructors yelling, "we use charts, not maps. Maps are for hiking. Charts are for flying."
yes, when I saw that, I had to repeat it a couple of times. Great Idea, I have work in woodwork area for like the whole of my life :) lol and I have never seen that idea. One of a kind, but I think a lot of people are going to use your idea. Top One.
This is the kind of decoration that I think is worthwhile. You see videos where people are putting random spheres in a bowl on the table, or just grabbing some cool looking thing and putting it on a shelf, and I think that’s so silly. Here, you have a table with a map that has personal meaning, and I assume the photographs are photographs of your plane. To me, if you’re gonna have clutter and knickknacks, they should be things that are part of your history, places you’ve been things you’ve done. Very cool.
Xyla you are a dream girl. As a Pilot, Engineer, DIY fabricator, built kit plane, did model rockets as a kid I'm a fan. You are smart, beautiful and now a sectional bar table top, yep dream girl. Cheers Xyla. Keep up the building. Enjoy it.
I just glued a large piece of felt onto a table. I clamped half down first to get the alignment right. Then glued the free half, without having to worry about alignment. No need to clamp the already glued side. Awesome project for you, great memories.
Such a cool way to preserve an artifact, and the memories that it will bring to you every time you lean over it! (And, though I know it might be stepping over a line, I love your braid wrapped around your head: efficient, functional, and elegant, just like you!)
Work bench+miter saw is SMART! ❤️ Thx for sharing. Ive wanted to do same project with all my original CD jackets from 90s. Great job! Never stop using ur tools how you want 😁 People that judge most likely dont have tools and didnt pay for your's
I LOVE that you highlight intelligent, strong, capable women on your channel. I'm just in awe at all your abilities. You are, w/out a doubt, my favorite content creator. Your content is engaging, well thought out, well edited, and educational. What more could anyone ask for?
That's awesome! I have a similarly DIY made table but with a glass plate, which I keep movie posters, vacation postcards and/or old long play records in, swapping the contents around once in a while.
You have brought back memories of my release and my exam. The experience of release is one that is never forgotten, it is the first time you find yourself completely alone in heaven. The project is very nice.
To maximize blade life when cutting dirty wood, save one side of the machine for initial cuts and the other for final cuts. The rough cuts will be slow and rough but blades will last longer
This makes me wish I still had my old sectionals. I used them as a kind of wallpaper in my den, but that meant they were left behind when we moved (though I will admit the big sectional wall was pretty amazing while I had it). I love this idea, and you can take it with you if you ever move, so you get to keep all those memories. Brilliant!
Back in the 1970s, when my sister worked in a boat yard in the Bahamas, and I were but a spotty adolescent, she used a product called "Steel Flex" for boat stuff (interiors, decks, etc) and also did some interesting photo and map mounting with the stuff. I haven't seen those pieces in years and years, but your project reminds me of those days....
Another great project Xyla!! I still have my first Detroit and Huron Sectionals from when I learned to fly in 1975. Great idea. I'ved mount old maps using a large dry mount press I had access to years ago working in a custom Art & Frame Gallery! Takes the wrinkles and kinks right out!! Beautiful job!! Always look for forward to your next project!
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Oooh! Good idea. I have a railroad map ftom my great-grandfather when he used to work for the USPS in small-town Nebraska that this would be a great idea for.
Excelent project! If you still have the chart offcuts you could laminate/epoxy them onto some 4" squares of ⅛" ply and back them with cork or felt to make some matching coasters.
Question I have done work with concrete before and we use a vibrator to help level out concrete and remove air. You have to be careful cause the concrete will flow like crazy if you over vibrate, but on your big flat epoxy pours would vibration help you with self leveling the epoxy? Cool table by the way great way to preserve a memory
Have you ever seen an extra large globe that sets in a cradle. (I have seen them in libraries.) You can move the globe in any orientation. I always thought it would be really cool to apply high altitude enroute charts to the surface and then you could measure great circle routes between anywhere on the planet. 🌎
I love anything that combines my passions for aviation and making. Awesome vid! Thank you! This has given me enough courage to try my first epoxy table top. More importantly, where can I get that superb tea pot??
Your more advanced videos are what inspired me to make a foamcore/glass sleeping situation for my car to use on longer road trips. Sooo much lighter than the plywood that most DIY builds use. AND, I started working with composites again, after putting them in the "too hard" bucket when I was a kid. All I needed was teachers (you, easy composites, and AJ Hartman Aero) to give me the pointers and techniques to avoid the mistakes I was making back then.
That was a seriously cool project, and it's AMAZING that your friend who helped you with your private license was there to help and celebrate with you. Sooooo cool! You've inspired me to look for my first chart that I used for my two stop cross country to get my license. I think it would be cool to use it as wall paper in a little guest cabin bathroom we're putting up in the woods! Would be interesting viewing whilst sitting around doing one's...well, you know. 🤣
Love the back to basics theme here. It's still a lot of materials for youngsters who fancy starting a journey of making. I'd have welcomed a '4 t'Kids' section where you made some coasters and/ table mats with side of the map that is now lost forevering the epoxy-ply sandwich. Looking forward more videos........
I really like the build of this table! I need to think about what I want to put down (I don't have a cool flight map lol) and then build one for my house! Great vid as always.
We have a table top at our flying club that has a 1:500,000 map of Greece (or part thereof) on it. I dont think they put quite asmuch effort into it as you did here though. Great looking table, sometimes making something out of cheaper materials is great fun. I built a door out of the chea[ wood batons used to attach drywall and it came out great.
Not sure how I missed this vid when I came out but this is the one I needed. I have bar in my new house without a top and I want to make one with Detroit Red Wings objects I have collected using epoxy. This was a big help and answered a couple of question I have. I am going to do some small test first but feel a lot better about getting started with those now. Table came out awesome.
I love this! I want to pour a bartop and this is a great quick reference video. I also appreciate the way you make long term practical items our of what might just be a sentimental piece of paper at the bottom of someone else's desk drawer (:
Glad to see the first rule of working with aviation maps (folding, laminating or fabloning) still applies even to someone as crafty as Xyla - another pilot will immediately appear as soon as you start to help/show you how you should have done it better!
Awesome build! I know that EVERYONE uses a eat gun or torch. But I'm curious if some compressed air would do the same thing or does the heat make the epoxy a bit less viscous?
8:40 - want to do something like this but don't have any friends? Roll it up on a tube, set the corners down correctly and hope for the best. 11:46 - To anyone wondering about the amount of epoxy needed on a project. 100cm x 100cm = 1 square meter and each 1 millimeter of thickness needs 1 liter of epoxy to cover it which means to have about a 4 millimeter thickness an American gallon is needed to cover that much. Let's say that this video's project is 70x200cm give or take, and the layer thickness is between 3 to 4 millimeters, that would mean 4.2 to 5.4 liters of liquid plastic needed for the project.
A nice way to preserve memories. Although tablet electronic maps have their virtues, they're like looking out a small porthole. A paper sectional gives so much broader a picture.
That is a really neat idea and very well done. As is everything that you do. I have the same thickness planer that you do. I too hesitated on the helical cutting head because of the cost. I retired to Thailand and have tons of teak slabs to work with. I was going through the HSS blades very quickly so I switched to a carbide insert helical cutter. I've gone through several hundred board feet of teak and I have not had to rotate the inserts yet. I really do think that the cost of replacement HSS blades would come close to what I paid for the helical cutter. At any rate I very much enjoy your videos and the encouragement that you give to women to go into mechanical and other disciplines of engineering.
I turned mine into a livesectional (blinky RGBs on the wall). It's much more DIY than the fancy printed ones, but I like having it. Ironing the map is a great idea, it would have made mine look better. I started with Super 77 adhesive and switched to OG rubber cement. But I wasn't epoxying over it either. Hope you're getting some great flying in!
Dig it! those old sectionals can pile up as they expire. I did my flight training using an E6B and a paper map- i know what you went through! FYI- I used to call flying low and identifying the roads and landmarks as flying IFR- I follow roads lol!
Yoooo I have that same work bench with the white frame and wood top! I use it for my 3D printers since it has an adjustable height so I don't have to kill me back when they need work.
How do you avoid edge drips on the bottom of the table top when you are pouring the epoxy and letting it flow over the edges, even though the table top is raised about its' supports. Does the heat gun force/blow them off before they cure? Or do you have to sand the them off the old fashioned way? !!!!! Great job. I too have many fond memories of VFR flight before GPS in the mid 70s!! Lots to be said for dead reckoning !
The results look great! I love map tables and one with personal history is even cooler! Did you have to test the epoxy to make sure it would not interact with the ink on the map?
Whoa!. All that energy is so refreshing!. A friend who is a mechanic?!. Heck, I had a neighbor who was a mechanic in college. (I did not know she was a mechanic until I was fiddling with the clutch cable routing in my bike and her mother visited). Seeing me struggling, she said "I will get Angela to help you!." Thing was it broke because I got the routing wrong!. (Heck, no UA-cam at the time to see how that actually works....)
Cool project, makes me wish I still had my student sectionals. All the ones I have laying around now are pretty clean and don't tell a story. Still, as a map geek and a wood and epoxy geek, maybe you've given me an idea how to dispose of some expired charts... Thanks!
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You only built that table to show off that tea pot. I'm certain.
That is the best tea pot I've ever seen.
@@althejazzmanI was about to say it was also the best part of the video but that would be facetious 😝😝
Damn. I had a teapot like that once.
Well damned if now I don't want one of those pots! 😅 Gonna have to troll through Etsy I guess. Unless Xyla kindly references where she got hers? 😊
It is quite thematically appropriate.
Every time you say "map," I have flashbacks to pilot training and my instructors yelling, "we use charts, not maps. Maps are for hiking. Charts are for flying."
The table is cool and all, but let's talk about that teapot. I am digging the hell out of that.
I love your flipping tool table at 3:05! That is hella clever! what a great way to save space!
yep, gotta do that with my router table/planer to make space in the garage
That looks like Fisher's Shop design
yes, when I saw that, I had to repeat it a couple of times.
Great Idea, I have work in woodwork area for like the whole of my life :) lol and I have never seen that idea.
One of a kind, but I think a lot of people are going to use your idea.
Top One.
I think the proper phrase is “flippin flipping tool table”
My arms are a bit messed up so lifting my large tools is problematic. I think I may build something like this... next spring.
10:51 our friends at botal toat hahaha , turned out pretty slick. Cheers 4 sharing.
classified documents out at 12:36, perfect for a War Thunder sponsorship hahaha
This is the kind of decoration that I think is worthwhile. You see videos where people are putting random spheres in a bowl on the table, or just grabbing some cool looking thing and putting it on a shelf, and I think that’s so silly.
Here, you have a table with a map that has personal meaning, and I assume the photographs are photographs of your plane. To me, if you’re gonna have clutter and knickknacks, they should be things that are part of your history, places you’ve been things you’ve done. Very cool.
The real crazy part is how expensive a bowl full of balls for the kitchen table can be (the cost is a feature for some folks).
10:52 "our friends over at boatle tote"? LoL. Great Project! Well done.
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smart, beautiful and now a sectional bar table top, yep dream girl. Cheers Xyla. Keep up the building. Enjoy it.
Old sectionals make excellent wrapping paper.
I just glued a large piece of felt onto a table. I clamped half down first to get the alignment right. Then glued the free half, without having to worry about alignment. No need to clamp the already glued side. Awesome project for you, great memories.
Such a cool way to preserve an artifact, and the memories that it will bring to you every time you lean over it! (And, though I know it might be stepping over a line, I love your braid wrapped around your head: efficient, functional, and elegant, just like you!)
Work bench+miter saw is SMART! ❤️ Thx for sharing. Ive wanted to do same project with all my original CD jackets from 90s. Great job!
Never stop using ur tools how you want 😁 People that judge most likely dont have tools and didnt pay for your's
Good build, cool decor, the radial engines are cool, and your tea pot! Cool!
1:04 "And Leaking my fair share of classified documents"
That is incredible! You have inspired me to build my next computer desk using my old flight sectionals. Nice work!
I LOVE that you highlight intelligent, strong, capable women on your channel. I'm just in awe at all your abilities. You are, w/out a doubt, my favorite content creator. Your content is engaging, well thought out, well edited, and educational. What more could anyone ask for?
I’m digging the blues shuffle going on while watching your build. I have to admit I like the look of the bottom of your table. Cool look!
Yeah you did ☺️ you totaly said “Boatal Tote” at 10:53 😂😂😂
That's awesome! I have a similarly DIY made table but with a glass plate, which I keep movie posters, vacation postcards and/or old long play records in, swapping the contents around once in a while.
You have brought back memories of my release and my exam.
The experience of release is one that is never forgotten, it is the first time you find yourself completely alone in heaven.
The project is very nice.
A nice table, approachable project, with a great step-by-step process.
As a picture framer:
I see your mitres, and am fine.
I hear mention of Spray Adhesive. and I want to cry.
I love when you do aviation content.
To maximize blade life when cutting dirty wood, save one side of the machine for initial cuts and the other for final cuts. The rough cuts will be slow and rough but blades will last longer
Those radials in the pictures above the table at the end.😍😍😍 There's something special about those engines to me.
Whoa whoa whoa, what is that contraption that rotates the planer and the sander?! I want one! Did you do a video on that? Glorious stuff.
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Enshrining something meaningful like this chart makes this project extra cool. Looks great! Thanks for sharing!
This makes me wish I still had my old sectionals. I used them as a kind of wallpaper in my den, but that meant they were left behind when we moved (though I will admit the big sectional wall was pretty amazing while I had it). I love this idea, and you can take it with you if you ever move, so you get to keep all those memories. Brilliant!
Back in the 1970s, when my sister worked in a boat yard in the Bahamas, and I were but a spotty adolescent, she used a product called "Steel Flex" for boat stuff (interiors, decks, etc) and also did some interesting photo and map mounting with the stuff. I haven't seen those pieces in years and years, but your project reminds me of those days....
Thanks
Another great project Xyla!! I still have my first Detroit and Huron Sectionals from when I learned to fly in 1975. Great idea. I'ved mount old maps using a large dry mount press I had access to years ago working in a custom Art & Frame Gallery! Takes the wrinkles and kinks right out!! Beautiful job!! Always look for forward to your next project!
I don't play video games, nor watch movie trailers, nor sit through any advertisement... And here I am verifiably entertained.
One of the best personalities not just on the UA-cam, but on the planet...IMHO.
Oooh! Good idea. I have a railroad map ftom my great-grandfather when he used to work for the USPS in small-town Nebraska that this would be a great idea for.
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Excelent project!
If you still have the chart offcuts you could laminate/epoxy them onto some 4" squares of ⅛" ply and back them with cork or felt to make some matching coasters.
Question I have done work with concrete before and we use a vibrator to help level out concrete and remove air. You have to be careful cause the concrete will flow like crazy if you over vibrate, but on your big flat epoxy pours would vibration help you with self leveling the epoxy? Cool table by the way great way to preserve a memory
Have you ever seen an extra large globe that sets in a cradle. (I have seen them in libraries.) You can move the globe in any orientation. I always thought it would be really cool to apply high altitude enroute charts to the surface and then you could measure great circle routes between anywhere on the planet. 🌎
I love anything that combines my passions for aviation and making. Awesome vid! Thank you! This has given me enough courage to try my first epoxy table top. More importantly, where can I get that superb tea pot??
These are my favorite types of home craft tables. Very personalized and beautiful.
Your more advanced videos are what inspired me to make a foamcore/glass sleeping situation for my car to use on longer road trips. Sooo much lighter than the plywood that most DIY builds use. AND, I started working with composites again, after putting them in the "too hard" bucket when I was a kid. All I needed was teachers (you, easy composites, and AJ Hartman Aero) to give me the pointers and techniques to avoid the mistakes I was making back then.
Wow ... such a cool table; so *_full_* of memories!
And that Gee Bee Racer teapot is the bee's knees! Really neat!
This is such a lovely project, and a great way to preserve a meaningful memento! Thanks so much for sharing this! 🧡
I like (and need!) that planer table flip table. Have you done a video on the build of it? If not, you should.
Just simply amazing - Really enjoy your videos.
You wearing a logger? Short heel stack logger? What brand? Cool laces. Good video.
My makerspace has two planers for exactly that reason. A big fancy one for new/unused lumber and a little cheap one for reclaimed lumber.
That was a seriously cool project, and it's AMAZING that your friend who helped you with your private license was there to help and celebrate with you. Sooooo cool!
You've inspired me to look for my first chart that I used for my two stop cross country to get my license. I think it would be cool to use it as wall paper in a little guest cabin bathroom we're putting up in the woods! Would be interesting viewing whilst sitting around doing one's...well, you know. 🤣
That Army getup.. lol
What are the odds that Julia had a layover... :-)
I was thinking "I wonder what she's going to use for table legs..." lol
Positively gorgeous! Wish I had done that with my sectional from 22 years ago!
Love the back to basics theme here. It's still a lot of materials for youngsters who fancy starting a journey of making. I'd have welcomed a '4 t'Kids' section where you made some coasters and/ table mats with side of the map that is now lost forevering the epoxy-ply sandwich. Looking forward more videos........
I really like the build of this table! I need to think about what I want to put down (I don't have a cool flight map lol) and then build one for my house! Great vid as always.
Great project! Now I’m thinking of something flat to make a table top. And where to put a table top!
We have a table top at our flying club that has a 1:500,000 map of Greece (or part thereof) on it. I dont think they put quite asmuch effort into it as you did here though.
Great looking table, sometimes making something out of cheaper materials is great fun. I built a door out of the chea[ wood batons used to attach drywall and it came out great.
Not sure how I missed this vid when I came out but this is the one I needed. I have bar in my new house without a top and I want to make one with Detroit Red Wings objects I have collected using epoxy. This was a big help and answered a couple of question I have. I am going to do some small test first but feel a lot better about getting started with those now. Table came out awesome.
the notched trowel thing you are talking about, we call a gauge rake when we are doing epoxy flooring.
Great video Xyla! I would like you to consider designing and building a low-cost efficient windmill system. DYI friendly.
I love this! I want to pour a bartop and this is a great quick reference video. I also appreciate the way you make long term practical items our of what might just be a sentimental piece of paper at the bottom of someone else's desk drawer (:
Glad to see the first rule of working with aviation maps (folding, laminating or fabloning) still applies even to someone as crafty as Xyla - another pilot will immediately appear as soon as you start to help/show you how you should have done it better!
Awesome build!
I know that EVERYONE uses a eat gun or torch. But I'm curious if some compressed air would do the same thing or does the heat make the epoxy a bit less viscous?
8:40 - want to do something like this but don't have any friends? Roll it up on a tube, set the corners down correctly and hope for the best.
11:46 - To anyone wondering about the amount of epoxy needed on a project. 100cm x 100cm = 1 square meter and each 1 millimeter of thickness needs 1 liter of epoxy to cover it which means to have about a 4 millimeter thickness an American gallon is needed to cover that much. Let's say that this video's project is 70x200cm give or take, and the layer thickness is between 3 to 4 millimeters, that would mean 4.2 to 5.4 liters of liquid plastic needed for the project.
That looks so great! Awesome project. 🙌🏻
What an amazing way to preserve a well seasoned map! Drawn and paper maps are a lost medium.
A nice way to preserve memories. Although tablet electronic maps have their virtues, they're like looking out a small porthole. A paper sectional gives so much broader a picture.
Exactly! We have a weakness for places with silly names, and it's hard to see places like Marsh Gibbon just off route if you're sticking to a route.
Nothing to stop you getting a large LCD monitor to run electronic maps, and epoxy _that_ into a bar top!
I love this. What a great idea. I’m going to attempt this myself. Thank you. 🙏
That is a really neat idea and very well done. As is everything that you do. I have the same thickness planer that you do. I too hesitated on the helical cutting head because of the cost. I retired to Thailand and have tons of teak slabs to work with. I was going through the HSS blades very quickly so I switched to a carbide insert helical cutter. I've gone through several hundred board feet of teak and I have not had to rotate the inserts yet. I really do think that the cost of replacement HSS blades would come close to what I paid for the helical cutter. At any rate I very much enjoy your videos and the encouragement that you give to women to go into mechanical and other disciplines of engineering.
How would the epoxy hold up outside under a patio cover? You said it had UV protectors in it. Great idea for old sections.
this is awesome Xyla. I thought of doing this with some sectionals I have except make cup coasters w/ VORS on the center of them.
I turned mine into a livesectional (blinky RGBs on the wall). It's much more DIY than the fancy printed ones, but I like having it. Ironing the map is a great idea, it would have made mine look better. I started with Super 77 adhesive and switched to OG rubber cement. But I wasn't epoxying over it either. Hope you're getting some great flying in!
They made wonderful wrapping paper also.
Very cool project! I really enjoyed this one. That flip top sander/planer stand is pretty cool too!
Dig it! those old sectionals can pile up as they expire. I did my flight training using an E6B and a paper map- i know what you went through! FYI- I used to call flying low and identifying the roads and landmarks as flying IFR- I follow roads lol!
That was a good video and project. Thank you for sharing.
i’d love to see more one day builds. Marling Baits has a series called “wh-One Day” - super good
Great to see actual 1-day builds! Gives people new to making stuff a chance to see a finished project.
I love watching xyla make amazing stuff 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great job Xyla! The table turned out great!!
10:52 "our friends over at Botal Toat"😂❤️
10/10 video. I feel more encouraged to finish my bar top project. Never would have thought of using a spreader with teeth.
A great idea to coordinate with your decor. Well done!
Yoooo I have that same work bench with the white frame and wood top! I use it for my 3D printers since it has an adjustable height so I don't have to kill me back when they need work.
This is so cool! You're such a rockstar!
How do you avoid edge drips on the bottom of the table top when you are pouring the epoxy and letting it flow over the edges, even though the table top is raised about its' supports. Does the heat gun force/blow them off before they cure? Or do you have to sand the them off the old fashioned way? !!!!! Great job. I too have many fond memories of VFR flight before GPS in the mid 70s!! Lots to be said for dead reckoning !
The results look great! I love map tables and one with personal history is even cooler! Did you have to test the epoxy to make sure it would not interact with the ink on the map?
Looks cute.
I have some naval charts that could do with a similar treatment
10:55 "our friends over at bottle toad" 😂😂
Love seeing your aviation stuff!!
Whoa!. All that energy is so refreshing!. A friend who is a mechanic?!. Heck, I had a neighbor who was a mechanic in college. (I did not know she was a mechanic until I was fiddling with the clutch cable routing in my bike and her mother visited). Seeing me struggling, she said "I will get Angela to help you!." Thing was it broke because I got the routing wrong!. (Heck, no UA-cam at the time to see how that actually works....)
You literally had to have flown over my house on your CC. What a cool project, and a keepsake. Loved this build
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Love the table, great video homie! When you get a min, do you know anywhere I could find like a bunch of classified documents?
well my friend theres a certain forum we both know and love
Sweet bar build Xyla, nice Gee bee tea pot as well.
Xyla, looks amazing, great work and thanks for sharing! 🙂
Cool project, makes me wish I still had my student sectionals. All the ones I have laying around now are pretty clean and don't tell a story.
Still, as a map geek and a wood and epoxy geek, maybe you've given me an idea how to dispose of some expired charts... Thanks!
That Gee Bee teapot is so fun!
That planer and sander combo cart is really neat.
Very nice work. Great little project.