Thank you so much for watching this video everybody! I hope you enjoy it. If you want to bid on the "Auction for Charity" piece here is the link: Auction - www.foureyesfurniture.com/auction Support the show here - www.patreon.com/ChrisSalomone Check out our woodworking plans / project courses here - www.foureyesfurniture.com/plans
Check out the link I have a 5 inch beard from chin and can see and breathe perfectly fine You do dup over audio so it's not a problem I know there are brands with built in radio systems for safety but the cost gets up there. For the cost of a slab it's worth your health
There are masks that fit over your entire face which might work better if you have a beard. I've seen one that even has forced air ventilation to both make it easier to breathe, prevent fogging and keep you cool.
When the video comes out I'll post a link to the organization where people can donate...and I'll try to remember to put that in the voice over when I record that video too, to let people know. Thanks for bringing that to my attention :)
The author does like to from scratch, ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
The charcoal looks amazing. You are a great storyteller and an incredible woodworker. Your videos are so unique compared to every other woodworking channel. You know that feeling you get when you are drawn in by the story of a great book? I get that feeling watching your videos. Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
Wow...really appreciate that. That's some high praise. I'm glad people are liking the less straight forward voice overs. I will say it makes it more fun to put the video together. Saying "next I cut this, then I cut that..." gets pretty boring for me.
"You are a great storyteller" Sure...getting you to shut up is the thing...Seriously, you bang on about every decision. There's no gaps just a constant opining. Sometimes it's better to let the work do the talkin (or at least some of it). It ends up making you sound pretentious.
An artist ... AND a mathematician? You are astonishing. I'm a former English teacher...& have no idea how you figure out the precision of angles and weight distribution, etc., etc. But I can't stop watching your entire process. It's wonderful to watch skilled professionals at their best. Thanks.
I could totally design and 3D print some of those clamp blocks for you! I work in industrial 3D printing so I could make em out of a neat material like nylon carbon fiber or something tougher then traditional 3D prints. I really love how this table turned out and was split on the darker colored legs until you showed the side by side. Fantastic work as always!
I'm normally pretty purist when it comes to staining and finishing, but I have to say, the charcoal was the right call for the top. And again, you were absolutely right to paint the bottom because it just didn't pair well otherwise. You surprised me honestly, because I don't know that I would have even thought to do either of those things myself. But in my humble opinion, you did what was best for the piece. Looks kinda brutalist now, and it's truly beautiful. Nice work.
I about spit out my drink when he said local red ironbark....I live in Sydney and I know for sure red ironbark eucy is definitely NOT local to him! I wonder who is growing it on streetsides to be recycled there?
As an subscriber for a couple years now i just want to say your videos keep getting better and better. Keep the drawings. Keep the tips. Keep your design input. The loyal minority who stay silent appreciate all of that. And any pressure you hear from critics don’t know what they are talking about or are throwing in their two cents when all they make are cutting boards. Keep it up man. Also can we get proof of life for Shaun
Gorgeous table Chris! I really like how the charcoal turned out, and I completely agree that people get too attached to the look of natural wood without considering the greater picture: the aesthetic of the finished piece in a well designed space.
Thank you for another great video. Your artistic capabilities shows well in your videos. To the question of the table, it doesn’t matter if I like it or not. This isn’t a commissioned piece. The only one that has to like it is you. That’s the great part about doing non-commissioned builds. I will say that the fact you took the time to think about that grain coloring and find a way to make it more appealing to you speaks a lot. That’s a level of detail that you don’t always see (and one I’m guilty of ignoring). Your joinery is at such a high level. Thank you for the inspiration!!
I love the drawings. I love your humility. I love your style. I want more. I learned on the first big table that I built that the sanding method you present really is the best. I mark my surface with a pencil to make it easier to see where I've been, but yeah...slow is fast in this case.
Love it! I hope it was easy to change the dimensions. That's something we try to cover in the plans, but there are always variables depending on what a person wants to do.
Your voiceover technique shows Great comedic wit and delivery. (I was going to say for a woodworker, but I stand by the statement as written. You have a gift, my friend!) Your woodworking skills and choices as well as discussion, thought process and arguments are interesting and add to the overall enjoyment for me. I liked how you "thought out" how to anchor the tabletop and the drawings that showed alternative ways that would have also have worked, and why you chose the final attachment design. Even though I cannot relate to the precision and beauty that you design and execute, I love your stuff and am always entertained and informed when I watch.
You've become one of my favorite UA-camrs pretty fast. It's not a lot of woodworkers on here anymore that actually build stuff. Seems like so many are just showing 5 tools you never cared about or whatever. And most of them don't even have anywhere near the subscribers you do so you're definitely doing something right. Thank you for continuing to build. Yes I'm having a four eyes marathon 😂
For a respirator, your best bet might be one of those full face, forced air things that wood turners wear. Trendair and 3M Versaflow are two common ones.
I've used the Trend Airshield Pro for many years and found it to be great - though sometimes a little loud, and it can move around a bit due to being top heavy. I'm now using one of the 3M Versaflow units and it's so much more comfortable - but granted much more expensive.
The contrast of the wood treatments look great. I appreciate the post production time you put in as well as those line drawings and renderings. Next level!
One of the reasons to build your own furniture is to make it look the way you want it to look. I didn’t either build or commission this, so it doesn’t matter that I’d have gone for the redder color. The design, comments, and video are all very nicely done.
19:37 - don't think I've seen anyone else comment on this, but this sort of transparent editing "transition" showing the holes is really neat. It's such a subtle, but really appreciated detail.
Going slow and taking your time is such an underrated tip. I feel so rushed most of the time I'm in my garage shop because my time to do any woodworking is so limited, and I want to maximize my time spent working on a piece before one of the kids needs something or my wife finally realizes I'm nowhere to be found... I've rushed my way into a fairly serious injury and learned a hard lesson. Now, I realize it's okay not to get as much done as possible and I've learned to just enjoy making a little dust occasionally. Keep up the good work! Love to keep seeing your sub count grow every time I rediscover your channel.
Wow! At first I thought it should have been left natural as well but I completely agree with how different some of the graining can look - same issue that you can have with oak. I really love your finish selection for both the top & legs. My only regret is that you haven't named a fly "Marty"...
You know, until the end I wasn't sure about the black finish. But after I saw the finished table I only could applaud your decision! Great vision and please do more of these exploratory videos!
This video has some magic in it, as it is not only technically informative to novice and pro woodworkers, but the delivery, through creative editing in the narration, specifically the gift of the way you speak to us, is so easy to listen to. Thank you.
That charcoal finish makes the piece unique! It’s probably not something I would have done, or like, but it is unique and I know that there are people that love that look. Great video as always. You’re right about the fact that if you don’t come to like it, sand it off and finish it a different way. As long as you learned from the experience that’s all that matters.
I've been sanding hardwood floors for 20+ years. Your sanding technique is spot on. Slow and steady, and let the machine glide and do its job. Nice work!!
Please stop apologizing on your decisions, anyone who doesn't like them are allowed to leave. This piece is turned out to be beautiful, thanks for that!
Stunning piece of furniture, and love the choice of finish. Also love the level of psychology in the video 😉 Talking about how others ask to smash this and click that is a great way of indirectly planting the seed. Just as people are reaching to grab their phones to say, “But talking about it is the same as asking”, you smack them with the fact that what matters most is just watching the videos! I couldn’t agree more, and can’t wait for the next one 😊
@@Foureyes.Furniture When people tell me to "SMASH" the like button, I feel like they're telling me to mindlessly obey them. It makes me want to "smash" the unlike button. When people ASK me to upvote IF I liked the video, I feel like they respect me, and I make a point to help them out with an upvote.
Don’t apologize for your opinions - you have a talent and eye that speak for themselves and that I appreciate. Some of us depend on people like you to help us experience things we would never have imagined or put together on our own.
@@Foureyes.Furniture Exactly, viewing minutes matter, but plenty just assume that more people subscribed = more views. Not true at all. There are plenty of channels I'm subscribed to where I only watch a portion of their output. Then there are others where I will religiously watch every one. Being subscribed just helps me with the feed as I find notifications unreliable and annoying!
I always try to find some time to admire your work sir. Thank you for your time making these videos and thank you for your compassion to do charity work 👊
Lover the staining. On the 'black' and 'brown' combination, I stumbled on a great combination for staining and preserving timbers in the garden - charcoal or chestnut horizontals or verticals; a brown, eg cedar, for verticals or horizontals - I've gone dark for diagonals. Works well for all sorts of projects from open strong screens to support wires for espalier apple trees to heavy-duty planters
Very cool result. When you were leading in to finishing the base, I immediately thought of ammonia-fuming too, but also iron oxide ebonizing. So, painting it black was a great design choice in my unimportant opinion. 😁 Thanks for your videos!
You said something that to me holds very true as a wood worker. And that is yes when building or even restoring a piece of furniture we often build it or restore it to "our" specifications. But sometimes those specifications have to be some what flexible to the piece we are working with, or else that piece just becomes a piece of garbage or fire wood. It's like with a headboard I made years and years ago when I was still a teen who was still just starting out. That piece of wood had a flaw in it, that caused me to have to change the design of the headboard to incorporate the flaw on the corner from the wood having a split in it that resulted in that corner sloping off. The guy who bought it loved it, and said it added character to the piece, but I was never happy with it but I was not about to scrap a piece of $40 dollar wood over a flaw.
Amazing designs! I hope you don't mind a little suggestion to save a little time, but for those aluminum mounting brackets you might just cut the corners (no pun intended) on the brackets to the routed shape so you won't have to chisel the sharp corners. This might also in the future prevent the wood from splitting in those sharp corners from any stress between the table and legs.
Huge +1 for the slow down tip. I've been a hobbyist woodworker for almost 30 years. I improved a lot over the frist 5-10 years as I added tools and learned new techniques, but then the quality of my work kinda' stalled. It was good, and there were few things I couldn't make, but the overall quality of the finished product was stuck. I had seen lots of really nice furniture, so I knew it was possible, but I couldn't pull it off, and I didn't know why. Fast forward 10 years, and in my 40's I simply grew more patient. I didn't know much more about woodworking than I did a decade earlier, but I was making fewer mistakes, doing fewer touch-ups, and getting noticeably better results. I didn't slow down because I thought it would make me a better woodworker, but because I was in less of a rush. Even then, it was a couple years before it occurred to me that my projects were consistently better and not really taking much longer, all as a result of slowing down. Maybe I'm denser than a block of chechen, but I eventually identified the secret sauce.
If you've ever seen a carob pod, it's dark on the outside but golden on the inside. I think you're doing justice to the species by using a charcoal finish, even if the inside is still lighter.
I believe that this is the first time I've ever commented on a you tube thingy. I really enjoy your work and in particular your attention to detail. I recently bought a cnc machine and have been making waney edge tables for a while before that. Epoxy isn't to my taste and yet you certainly do a wonderful job of your tables. I've been joining waney edges along the grain structures and matching adjacent planks to one another with wobbly lines rather than butting straight planks. It works really well. More than anything I'm impressed with your charitable affiliations and since you asked, I really like the combination of drawings animations and the excellence of your video editing.
Hey Chris, Just met you through the past 4hrs, in watching your videos. Thank you so much. I'm appreciative of all the knowledge and wisdom you bring to the "table", lol, back at you. Your work is exquisite, so well thought out. Your process of building ties into above thought. I catch you, your approach, your reasoning, your ability to understand the problems that come up, and how to remedy them in a Simply Genious way! Much respect! Like "high five shit". Truly it shows, that you've been through the miles, the hrs, the dedication, that all leads to success. I'm so happy to have found your channel. It's all at the level of my experience, which is to simply say; you give much value to all levels. You make things understandable, creatively, as well as practically. You do this in a manner that teaches "all types". The world of carpentry/woodworking, holds many levels of understanding, techniques and personalities. There's much wisdom on all levels for all types! Its incredible to me, the amount of knowledge, and,technique, you are passing on... just a big high five! Way to go! Keep it up! Looking forward to "hoping on board". Plans and so forth... 3 immutable laws of the universe: 1) you reap what you sow 2) it takes time before you reap 3) you reap much more than you have sown
Man, I'm so glad I stumbled across this channel. You make gorgeous pieces, have a sense of humour I appreciate, and it's all beautifully filmed and edited. Thanks for making such art!
I am totally with you on the charcoal. It came out amazing! Gotta admit, the black on the base threw me. But like others have said, it's your project and you are happy with it. That's the goal, right? 😄 I'm not going to repeat all the other comments here even though they are spot on. I will say that other woodworkers post a 28 minute video and I sigh and scroll on. You post one and I save it until I can give it my full attention. Then when I can't finish I come back when it has my full attention again. I love what you do.
I really love your designs and the care you take to explain things. Thanks for all the great shots, sketches, and tricks said and unsaid. I really like your style dude. You sir are an Urban Achiever!
Really loved the sotrytelling on this video! Quick thought, have you considered selling print-on-demand posters of your drawings as well as the actioned signed originals?
I’ve got a walnut slab where I’ve already prepped, filled imperfections, and installed a very few dutchmans. I’ve had thoughts and even sketches nearly identical to your support system for this table. It’s meant to be a dressing bench for the end of our king bed and has been ready to go for many months, I just haven’t pulled the trigger on the thing. I don’t own/use dominoes and I’m primarily a hand tool only guy; only using jointer, planer, and on occasion a bandsaw to mill my timbers so I can do more of what I enjoy with the hand tools. The only way I can see this working for me is with bridle joints where the stretchers meet the legs, but the air gap between the seat and the slab is exactly what I’m aiming for. Thanks for emboldening me a bit on this and maybe it’s time to take the project back up. After all, the slab isn’t doing anything for anyone sitting stickered and ready to grow legs in the shop 👍
Awesome build, and I like the idea of using stain to change the perceived generic outcome from specific wood species. Not to say it's always the right choice but I think this table came out well.
I so appreciate all your videos. I just joined a woodworking collective after not having access to a shop for more than 25 years. I've been desperately missing working with my hands, and your projects have been an inspiration for what directions I'll explore now that I have access to a shop again. I've much to learn, and the sharing of your experience and knowledge will be part of my journey back to turning wood into things both beautiful and functional. Thank you!
When I took a woodworking course, I used to drive the instructor nuts because I’d switch between metric and imperial for whichever number was ‘nicer’ - she’d get so frustrated and wouldn’t let me submit drafted plans for projects that had both on it, and told me to just pick ONE! 16 years later, I still use both.
For the respirator beard thing. Your need a good seal but if you get the right respirator it can cover 90% of the bearer well. Check out the channel for Evan and Katelyn and the respirators they use when doing epoxy. They might be a bit over kill but it is filtering the air. In the end it’s what your comfortable with but the better coverage the better your lungs will be
I love your videos! It was something that I felt there that I couldn’t put words to or even know what it was until I saw this video and the best way I can describe. It is a sense of humanity and togetherness and I love it. Thank you so much for your generosity and your humanity. Now that your videos, I love the comedy, the attention to detail, and just your humanity that you put into making them and into your work. You are a delight and privilege to watch and learn from
Here in "Merica we're taught that our opinion is not only important, but that it doesn't count unless we force others to hear it. Also looks great and super that you are influencing for good and sharing your gifts. Thanks for being good and acting greatly.
Your work..or should I say your professional craftsmanship, makes beautiful and unique looking furniture. I’m new to your channel, and have a suggestion. Do an abstract dinning table with different shaped, multiple species of wood with hints of earth tone resin. I bet you could build that and make the wood pop. I think it would sell high and give you even more money for your charity! Thank you for having such a huge heart for these women and children! ❤
This video showed up in my feed, and I'm glad it did. I've not seen any of your videos, but I really enjoyed the way you told the story. As someone with a large slab of walnut waiting to become a table, I appreciate the ideas and tips.
Is there any chance you might be able to show us your design process? Basically how you draw your furniture pieces in sketch-up and create different iterations and so on? I think that would be a really cool and informative video.
I like being surprised by how much I like something afterward that "I wouldn't do". I'm more in that "natural wood" camp, but I can find no fault in how this top turned out. Really impressive. The only thing I would have done different with this, was to paint the mounting hardware black. Sure, it's on the underside of the table, but I like to care as much there too. And as you say, the important thing is how you feel about it. So even that's all good. Oh, and Cam says "Make the spider table base out of wood video". Just have to put that in. Scott from Japan
Hey there, i work in India mostly with Kaja live edge planks making tables and your project gives me new elements to play with. Thanks for the wonderful work and the inspirations.
That looks sooo good. I didn't think I would like the black, but the fact that you can still see the grain is really nice! You did a great job! I'm impressed!
It looks beautiful, You are the artist / sculpter and its all upto you when its a personal project! Make what looks good to you. We are here for the journey and watching how you get to that beautiful end peice!
I'm new to your channel and I love your ironic humor and editing. Black on black without competing colors and patterning was the absolute perfect choice.
I could see going either way with the stain. But the finished product is pretty sleek and the choice to blacken the base was spot on. I dont particularly appreciate the more modern aerodynamic look but I wouldnt give that piece away if it were in my house. I would actually pick a space and try to compliment it with other pieces. I been doing furniture and do dads as I call them for 45 years. As a retired Developer/Contractor I spent my whole life building. You, young man, impressed me with your design capability and desire to strike out into unknown places you havent tried before. I wish there were more like you out here.
I love your videos. But .. can I just say that your generosity and humble nature is amazing. Your putting your drawing on auction for charity is beyond amazing. What a great idea. And this piece is beautiful!
Beautiful! I love the dark, smoke-like appearance! I love it. Your designs are so elegant, your scripts are fantastic, your stories and jokes and instructions are all so engaging! Good stuff, man!
Red ironbark is really common here in Australia but is virtually always used as a construction hardwood - fence posts & rails etc. I'm gobsmacked that Taylor would use it to make high end guitars
I'm a complete "bare" wood guy, but I also can recognize that sometimes other finishes can be just as amazing. This is one of those times. I love the darker finish and the painted base.
Nice work with the fund raiser for a local charity. I totally support the move and the inclusion of drawings and animations in the videos. I live vicariously through channels like yours!! Every so often I find the time and the project to match my skill and tool set. You're making great content. Keep up the good work!
Dude you nailed that. The Carob wood was too golden for my taste. I think the pure finish with the contrasting wood grain tone looks stunning in linear grain rather than the knotted pieces.
I like that you touched the whole metric to what I call standard. I call it standard because, If a reasonable person was to create a measurement from scratch, it would always start with a unit, then cut it in half, and then in half again and so on and so forth... and boom, you have yourself an inch. Mathematically and naturally, 12 is a magic number as when doing math in your head, it is divisible by so many numbers, therefore 12 is an advanced builder's number. Going smaller, anything smaller than 1/32" will never be noticed by a human being with typical craftsman stuff. With metric going larger goes from wee to weird to huge. Metric is not made for builders and craftsman as much as the scientists and archeologists want it to be. It is for the guys that need paper to divide 5 in half. The problem lies in the fact that all of our math teachers were already confused themselves! Fractions could have been so easy!
The one tip that I have taken from your channel (and nowhere else), is that epoxy does not stick to tape, which is also true of common brown parcel tape. Saves a lot of time and money, and making small moulds is much easier - no more expensive HDPE!
Excellent video. Accompanying commentary very engaging. And your discourse that spring from your internal debate on the final finish is perfect. Agree with your every point. The final piece is beautiful. Love the way light highlights the form and surface.
The combination of charcoal RMC and black legs came out really great... + I have to admit - I really enjoyed watching this video. I always learn something new from from your vids that I can later incorporate into my woodworking (well - that's a big word for my attempts to tame machines, wood and epoxy resin).
Thank you so much for watching this video everybody! I hope you enjoy it. If you want to bid on the "Auction for Charity" piece here is the link:
Auction - www.foureyesfurniture.com/auction
Support the show here - www.patreon.com/ChrisSalomone
Check out our woodworking plans / project courses here - www.foureyesfurniture.com/plans
Is there a way to contribute to the charity for those of us who can't afford to bid or can't afford to have it shipped across the ocean?
Grab a UK pint. You get 68 extra millilitres. 😉
Check out the link I have a 5 inch beard from chin and can see and breathe perfectly fine
You do dup over audio so it's not a problem
I know there are brands with built in radio systems for safety but the cost gets up there.
For the cost of a slab it's worth your health
There are masks that fit over your entire face which might work better if you have a beard. I've seen one that even has forced air ventilation to both make it easier to breathe, prevent fogging and keep you cool.
When the video comes out I'll post a link to the organization where people can donate...and I'll try to remember to put that in the voice over when I record that video too, to let people know. Thanks for bringing that to my attention :)
The author does like to from scratch, ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
Love this piece. The charcoal + black combination turned out beautifully. The asymmetry of the base is my favorite part. 👌
The charcoal looks amazing. You are a great storyteller and an incredible woodworker. Your videos are so unique compared to every other woodworking channel. You know that feeling you get when you are drawn in by the story of a great book? I get that feeling watching your videos. Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
Wow...really appreciate that. That's some high praise. I'm glad people are liking the less straight forward voice overs. I will say it makes it more fun to put the video together.
Saying "next I cut this, then I cut that..." gets pretty boring for me.
"You are a great storyteller" Sure...getting you to shut up is the thing...Seriously, you bang on about every decision. There's no gaps just a constant opining. Sometimes it's better to let the work do the talkin (or at least some of it). It ends up making you sound pretentious.
@@gastonlaberge2119 sounds more like invested and opinionated to me...
Boy, get a room…lol.
@@gastonlaberge2119 ... Just mute the video if you have a problem with it.
An artist ... AND a mathematician? You are astonishing. I'm a former English teacher...& have no idea how you figure out the precision of angles and weight distribution, etc., etc. But I can't stop watching your entire process. It's wonderful to watch skilled professionals at their best. Thanks.
I could totally design and 3D print some of those clamp blocks for you! I work in industrial 3D printing so I could make em out of a neat material like nylon carbon fiber or something tougher then traditional 3D prints. I really love how this table turned out and was split on the darker colored legs until you showed the side by side. Fantastic work as always!
You guys collaborate on that and i would definitely be interested in buying some as well
Another vote for collaboration on this. I would totally buy a set.
I’d also be interested in buying a set if available
Count me in for some of those if you decide to make them.
Looks like you got some takers. Better get on it! Good luck
I'm normally pretty purist when it comes to staining and finishing, but I have to say, the charcoal was the right call for the top. And again, you were absolutely right to paint the bottom because it just didn't pair well otherwise. You surprised me honestly, because I don't know that I would have even thought to do either of those things myself. But in my humble opinion, you did what was best for the piece. Looks kinda brutalist now, and it's truly beautiful. Nice work.
I’m from Australia, and I love that you are using Eucalyptus, I hope you continue making your refined and eloquent furniture with the beautiful wood
I about spit out my drink when he said local red ironbark....I live in Sydney and I know for sure red ironbark eucy is definitely NOT local to him! I wonder who is growing it on streetsides to be recycled there?
The table looks incredible!
Thank brother...love your channel BTW :)
As an subscriber for a couple years now i just want to say your videos keep getting better and better. Keep the drawings. Keep the tips. Keep your design input. The loyal minority who stay silent appreciate all of that. And any pressure you hear from critics don’t know what they are talking about or are throwing in their two cents when all they make are cutting boards. Keep it up man. Also can we get proof of life for Shaun
I didn’t care for the color choices at first but once it was finished I absolutely love it. Great job.
Gorgeous table Chris! I really like how the charcoal turned out, and I completely agree that people get too attached to the look of natural wood without considering the greater picture: the aesthetic of the finished piece in a well designed space.
Thank you for another great video. Your artistic capabilities shows well in your videos. To the question of the table, it doesn’t matter if I like it or not. This isn’t a commissioned piece. The only one that has to like it is you. That’s the great part about doing non-commissioned builds. I will say that the fact you took the time to think about that grain coloring and find a way to make it more appealing to you speaks a lot. That’s a level of detail that you don’t always see (and one I’m guilty of ignoring). Your joinery is at such a high level. Thank you for the inspiration!!
I love the drawings. I love your humility. I love your style. I want more.
I learned on the first big table that I built that the sanding method you present really is the best. I mark my surface with a pencil to make it easier to see where I've been, but yeah...slow is fast in this case.
Full disclosure: I bought your Longview plans and shrunk them down a bit for a small dining room. The recipient LOVES it.
Love it! I hope it was easy to change the dimensions. That's something we try to cover in the plans, but there are always variables depending on what a person wants to do.
Your voiceover technique shows Great comedic wit and delivery. (I was going to say for a woodworker, but I stand by the statement as written. You have a gift, my friend!) Your woodworking skills and choices as well as discussion, thought process and arguments are interesting and add to the overall enjoyment for me. I liked how you "thought out" how to anchor the tabletop and the drawings that showed alternative ways that would have also have worked, and why you chose the final attachment design. Even though I cannot relate to the precision and beauty that you design and execute, I love your stuff and am always entertained and informed when I watch.
Thanks chuck. Really appreciate this comment. Very kind of you. 🙏🏻
You've become one of my favorite UA-camrs pretty fast. It's not a lot of woodworkers on here anymore that actually build stuff. Seems like so many are just showing 5 tools you never cared about or whatever. And most of them don't even have anywhere near the subscribers you do so you're definitely doing something right. Thank you for continuing to build. Yes I'm having a four eyes marathon 😂
I love the way that the “thank you” was timed with that satisfying (visual) clunk of the metal into the perfectly cut niche.
For a respirator, your best bet might be one of those full face, forced air things that wood turners wear. Trendair and 3M Versaflow are two common ones.
This, very this. If you have positive pressure, you can never be able to breathe any shop air no matter how full your beard is!
@@jimsubtle886 just so both y’all know, you can 100% get a proper seal with facial hair or full beard. NATO has tested and proved this.
Came here to make the same comment: Check out Versaflow
I've used the Trend Airshield Pro for many years and found it to be great - though sometimes a little loud, and it can move around a bit due to being top heavy. I'm now using one of the 3M Versaflow units and it's so much more comfortable - but granted much more expensive.
The respirator @michaelcthulhu wears on his YT channel is still to date the single best I have ever made and/or used.
The contrast of the wood treatments look great. I appreciate the post production time you put in as well as those line drawings and renderings. Next level!
One of the reasons to build your own furniture is to make it look the way you want it to look. I didn’t either build or commission this, so it doesn’t matter that I’d have gone for the redder color.
The design, comments, and video are all very nicely done.
19:37 - don't think I've seen anyone else comment on this, but this sort of transparent editing "transition" showing the holes is really neat. It's such a subtle, but really appreciated detail.
As a former furniture designer (not woodworker, just designer), I'm a big fan of your design and dry wit. Keep experimenting!
Thank you very much! I appreciate that
Going slow and taking your time is such an underrated tip. I feel so rushed most of the time I'm in my garage shop because my time to do any woodworking is so limited, and I want to maximize my time spent working on a piece before one of the kids needs something or my wife finally realizes I'm nowhere to be found... I've rushed my way into a fairly serious injury and learned a hard lesson. Now, I realize it's okay not to get as much done as possible and I've learned to just enjoy making a little dust occasionally. Keep up the good work! Love to keep seeing your sub count grow every time I rediscover your channel.
Wow! At first I thought it should have been left natural as well but I completely agree with how different some of the graining can look - same issue that you can have with oak. I really love your finish selection for both the top & legs. My only regret is that you haven't named a fly "Marty"...
Haha...I'm sure it'll happen again. I'll keep that on the short list for the next casualty :)
You know, until the end I wasn't sure about the black finish. But after I saw the finished table I only could applaud your decision! Great vision and please do more of these exploratory videos!
Also - I LOVE what you did with this piece. I think the ebonized wood with the top look fantastic!
This video has some magic in it, as it is not only technically informative to novice and pro woodworkers, but the delivery, through creative editing in the narration, specifically the gift of the way you speak to us, is so easy to listen to. Thank you.
That charcoal finish makes the piece unique! It’s probably not something I would have done, or like, but it is unique and I know that there are people that love that look. Great video as always. You’re right about the fact that if you don’t come to like it, sand it off and finish it a different way. As long as you learned from the experience that’s all that matters.
You're absolutely right. That's most important. Having a good result is always a nice bonus too :)
I've been sanding hardwood floors for 20+ years. Your sanding technique is spot on. Slow and steady, and let the machine glide and do its job. Nice work!!
Please stop apologizing on your decisions, anyone who doesn't like them are allowed to leave. This piece is turned out to be beautiful, thanks for that!
Wow, the auction winner got a great deal. Beautiful table and very absorbing commentary. Thank you.
I knew this was "my wife is my ex-girlfriend" joke. The gospel of Scott Aukerman spreads further
Haha...Kulap
Of course, you watched the video!
Or , as I say. “My first wife”. We’ve been married for 40 plus years.
Never a good idea to introduce your wife as "My current wife". 🤦
27:45 GOTH TABLE GOTH TABLE GOTH TABLE YESSSSSS. i love it so muchhhhh
Stunning piece of furniture, and love the choice of finish. Also love the level of psychology in the video 😉 Talking about how others ask to smash this and click that is a great way of indirectly planting the seed. Just as people are reaching to grab their phones to say, “But talking about it is the same as asking”, you smack them with the fact that what matters most is just watching the videos! I couldn’t agree more, and can’t wait for the next one 😊
It's totally true. If zero people subscribed, but everybody watched 80% of a video...you would have a MASSIVE hit video on your hands.
@@Foureyes.Furniture When people tell me to "SMASH" the like button, I feel like they're telling me to mindlessly obey them. It makes me want to "smash" the unlike button. When people ASK me to upvote IF I liked the video, I feel like they respect me, and I make a point to help them out with an upvote.
Don’t apologize for your opinions - you have a talent and eye that speak for themselves and that I appreciate. Some of us depend on people like you to help us experience things we would never have imagined or put together on our own.
@@Foureyes.Furniture Exactly, viewing minutes matter, but plenty just assume that more people subscribed = more views. Not true at all. There are plenty of channels I'm subscribed to where I only watch a portion of their output. Then there are others where I will religiously watch every one. Being subscribed just helps me with the feed as I find notifications unreliable and annoying!
I like that you're doing your thing more confidently
I always try to find some time to admire your work sir. Thank you for your time making these videos and thank you for your compassion to do charity work 👊
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching :)
Lover the staining. On the 'black' and 'brown' combination, I stumbled on a great combination for staining and preserving timbers in the garden - charcoal or chestnut horizontals or verticals; a brown, eg cedar, for verticals or horizontals - I've gone dark for diagonals. Works well for all sorts of projects from open strong screens to support wires for espalier apple trees to heavy-duty planters
Very cool result. When you were leading in to finishing the base, I immediately thought of ammonia-fuming too, but also iron oxide ebonizing. So, painting it black was a great design choice in my unimportant opinion. 😁 Thanks for your videos!
All opinions are equally important...just like Pie between Onions :)
You said something that to me holds very true as a wood worker. And that is yes when building or even restoring a piece of furniture we often build it or restore it to "our" specifications. But sometimes those specifications have to be some what flexible to the piece we are working with, or else that piece just becomes a piece of garbage or fire wood. It's like with a headboard I made years and years ago when I was still a teen who was still just starting out. That piece of wood had a flaw in it, that caused me to have to change the design of the headboard to incorporate the flaw on the corner from the wood having a split in it that resulted in that corner sloping off. The guy who bought it loved it, and said it added character to the piece, but I was never happy with it but I was not about to scrap a piece of $40 dollar wood over a flaw.
Amazing designs! I hope you don't mind a little suggestion to save a little time, but for those aluminum mounting brackets you might just cut the corners (no pun intended) on the brackets to the routed shape so you won't have to chisel the sharp corners. This might also in the future prevent the wood from splitting in those sharp corners from any stress between the table and legs.
Huge +1 for the slow down tip. I've been a hobbyist woodworker for almost 30 years. I improved a lot over the frist 5-10 years as I added tools and learned new techniques, but then the quality of my work kinda' stalled. It was good, and there were few things I couldn't make, but the overall quality of the finished product was stuck. I had seen lots of really nice furniture, so I knew it was possible, but I couldn't pull it off, and I didn't know why. Fast forward 10 years, and in my 40's I simply grew more patient. I didn't know much more about woodworking than I did a decade earlier, but I was making fewer mistakes, doing fewer touch-ups, and getting noticeably better results. I didn't slow down because I thought it would make me a better woodworker, but because I was in less of a rush. Even then, it was a couple years before it occurred to me that my projects were consistently better and not really taking much longer, all as a result of slowing down. Maybe I'm denser than a block of chechen, but I eventually identified the secret sauce.
If you've ever seen a carob pod, it's dark on the outside but golden on the inside. I think you're doing justice to the species by using a charcoal finish, even if the inside is still lighter.
I believe that this is the first time I've ever commented on a you tube thingy. I really enjoy your work and in particular your attention to detail. I recently bought a cnc machine and have been making waney edge tables for a while before that. Epoxy isn't to my taste and yet you certainly do a wonderful job of your tables. I've been joining waney edges along the grain structures and matching adjacent planks to one another with wobbly lines rather than butting straight planks. It works really well. More than anything I'm impressed with your charitable affiliations and since you asked, I really like the combination of drawings animations and the excellence of your video editing.
What a gorgeous elegant table! Congratulations! And thanks for all the explanations.
You are so welcome! Really appreciate that
Hey Chris,
Just met you through the past 4hrs, in watching your videos. Thank you so much. I'm appreciative of all the knowledge and wisdom you bring to the "table", lol, back at you.
Your work is exquisite, so well thought out. Your process of building ties into above thought. I catch you, your approach, your reasoning, your ability to understand the problems that come up, and how to remedy them in a Simply Genious way! Much respect! Like "high five shit".
Truly it shows, that you've been through the miles, the hrs, the dedication, that all leads to success. I'm so happy to have found your channel. It's all at the level of my experience, which is to simply say; you give much value to all levels. You make things understandable, creatively, as well as practically. You do this in a manner that teaches "all types". The world of carpentry/woodworking, holds many levels of understanding, techniques and personalities. There's much wisdom on all levels for all types! Its incredible to me, the amount of knowledge, and,technique, you are passing on... just a big high five! Way to go! Keep it up! Looking forward to "hoping on board". Plans and so forth...
3 immutable laws of the universe:
1) you reap what you sow
2) it takes time before you reap
3) you reap much more than you have sown
Man, I'm so glad I stumbled across this channel. You make gorgeous pieces, have a sense of humour I appreciate, and it's all beautifully filmed and edited. Thanks for making such art!
I am totally with you on the charcoal. It came out amazing! Gotta admit, the black on the base threw me. But like others have said, it's your project and you are happy with it. That's the goal, right? 😄
I'm not going to repeat all the other comments here even though they are spot on. I will say that other woodworkers post a 28 minute video and I sigh and scroll on. You post one and I save it until I can give it my full attention. Then when I can't finish I come back when it has my full attention again. I love what you do.
I really love your designs and the care you take to explain things. Thanks for all the great shots, sketches, and tricks said and unsaid. I really like your style dude. You sir are an Urban Achiever!
Thanks Todd...I had never heard of an Urban Achiever...and I'm not sure I totally qualify, but I'll take it.
@@Foureyes.Furniture It's a reference from the Big Lebowski. 🏆
Piece of art .. u’re gifted .. keep up the good work
I like the natural finish but the black also looks awesome, either way you are great at what you do!!
Thanks Cara...appreciate it
Oh, and the charcoal finish--absolutely gorgeous.
Really loved the sotrytelling on this video! Quick thought, have you considered selling print-on-demand posters of your drawings as well as the actioned signed originals?
I briefly have...but abandoned it for some good reason. I can't recall now though.
I’ve got a walnut slab where I’ve already prepped, filled imperfections, and installed a very few dutchmans. I’ve had thoughts and even sketches nearly identical to your support system for this table. It’s meant to be a dressing bench for the end of our king bed and has been ready to go for many months, I just haven’t pulled the trigger on the thing. I don’t own/use dominoes and I’m primarily a hand tool only guy; only using jointer, planer, and on occasion a bandsaw to mill my timbers so I can do more of what I enjoy with the hand tools. The only way I can see this working for me is with bridle joints where the stretchers meet the legs, but the air gap between the seat and the slab is exactly what I’m aiming for. Thanks for emboldening me a bit on this and maybe it’s time to take the project back up. After all, the slab isn’t doing anything for anyone sitting stickered and ready to grow legs in the shop 👍
Awesome build, and I like the idea of using stain to change the perceived generic outcome from specific wood species. Not to say it's always the right choice but I think this table came out well.
Thank you very much! I totally agree. Not always the answer. But I was happy here
I so appreciate all your videos. I just joined a woodworking collective after not having access to a shop for more than 25 years. I've been desperately missing working with my hands, and your projects have been an inspiration for what directions I'll explore now that I have access to a shop again. I've much to learn, and the sharing of your experience and knowledge will be part of my journey back to turning wood into things both beautiful and functional. Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful. Love your content, and all of your builds.
When I took a woodworking course, I used to drive the instructor nuts because I’d switch between metric and imperial for whichever number was ‘nicer’ - she’d get so frustrated and wouldn’t let me submit drafted plans for projects that had both on it, and told me to just pick ONE!
16 years later, I still use both.
For the respirator beard thing. Your need a good seal but if you get the right respirator it can cover 90% of the bearer well.
Check out the channel for Evan and Katelyn and the respirators they use when doing epoxy. They might be a bit over kill but it is filtering the air.
In the end it’s what your comfortable with but the better coverage the better your lungs will be
Their full face shield are awesome love E&K! That said you can get a perfect seal with facial hair or a beard which was proven by NATO.
I love your videos! It was something that I felt there that I couldn’t put words to or even know what it was until I saw this video and the best way I can describe. It is a sense of humanity and togetherness and I love it. Thank you so much for your generosity and your humanity. Now that your videos, I love the comedy, the attention to detail, and just your humanity that you put into making them and into your work. You are a delight and privilege to watch and learn from
Here in "Merica we're taught that our opinion is not only important, but that it doesn't count unless we force others to hear it. Also looks great and super that you are influencing for good and sharing your gifts. Thanks for being good and acting greatly.
Thanks Jacob...that's an opinion I don't mind having forced on me :)
Your work..or should I say your professional craftsmanship, makes beautiful and unique looking furniture. I’m new to your channel, and have a suggestion. Do an abstract dinning table with different shaped, multiple species of wood with hints of earth tone resin. I bet you could build that and make the wood pop. I think it would sell high and give you even more money for your charity! Thank you for having such a huge heart for these women and children! ❤
Love this. You guys create the best designs. I’ve already bought 2 of your plans. Keep them coming!
Thanks man...appreciate it. We definitely will
This video showed up in my feed, and I'm glad it did. I've not seen any of your videos, but I really enjoyed the way you told the story. As someone with a large slab of walnut waiting to become a table, I appreciate the ideas and tips.
Really stellar looking table! Great work as always!
Stunning. It's very therapeutic watching an artist at work. He's very talented and smart and love his ethos on life.
Is there any chance you might be able to show us your design process? Basically how you draw your furniture pieces in sketch-up and create different iterations and so on? I think that would be a really cool and informative video.
I like being surprised by how much I like something afterward that "I wouldn't do". I'm more in that "natural wood" camp, but I can find no fault in how this top turned out. Really impressive. The only thing I would have done different with this, was to paint the mounting hardware black. Sure, it's on the underside of the table, but I like to care as much there too. And as you say, the important thing is how you feel about it. So even that's all good. Oh, and Cam says "Make the spider table base out of wood video". Just have to put that in. Scott from Japan
Hey there, i work in India mostly with Kaja live edge planks making tables and your project gives me new elements to play with. Thanks for the wonderful work and the inspirations.
Dead fly jokes make me sad.
That looks sooo good. I didn't think I would like the black, but the fact that you can still see the grain is really nice! You did a great job! I'm impressed!
Thanks so much...really appreciate it :)
Best (most instructive and eductional but also funny and entertaining) wood working videos of all youtube. Period. 🙌
Wow, thanks! That’s some high praise. And I appreciate it
It looks beautiful, You are the artist / sculpter and its all upto you when its a personal project! Make what looks good to you. We are here for the journey and watching how you get to that beautiful end peice!
I'm new to your channel and I love your ironic humor and editing. Black on black without competing colors and patterning was the absolute perfect choice.
Super cool, that you raised money for a charity project like the one you chose! This just makes me happy. !
I could see going either way with the stain. But the finished product is pretty sleek and the choice to blacken the base was spot on. I dont particularly appreciate the more modern aerodynamic look but I wouldnt give that piece away if it were in my house. I would actually pick a space and try to compliment it with other pieces. I been doing furniture and do dads as I call them for 45 years. As a retired Developer/Contractor I spent my whole life building. You, young man, impressed me with your design capability and desire to strike out into unknown places you havent tried before. I wish there were more like you out here.
I love your videos. But .. can I just say that your generosity and humble nature is amazing. Your putting your drawing on auction for charity is beyond amazing. What a great idea. And this piece is beautiful!
Thank you so much 😀
Beautiful! I love the dark, smoke-like appearance! I love it. Your designs are so elegant, your scripts are fantastic, your stories and jokes and instructions are all so engaging! Good stuff, man!
I really didn’t think I would like the dark color, but in the end, WOW!!!! Beautiful!!
Thank you so much!
Red ironbark is really common here in Australia but is virtually always used as a construction hardwood - fence posts & rails etc. I'm gobsmacked that Taylor would use it to make high end guitars
Taylor has guitars made out of some old shipping pallets that sound amazing.
Beautiful! I so enjoy your videos. You turn rough wood into unique works of art. Thank you.
Thank you very much! Appreciate it :)
Asking for suggestions and interacting with your audience is what has certainly helped build your channel. Keep it up.
The slab reformer! He did it again! Such a fine piece of work!
My first visit. I've never seen a shop with so much empty wall space. Nice presentation.
Thanks. Yeah. The walls are definitely under utilized
I'm a complete "bare" wood guy, but I also can recognize that sometimes other finishes can be just as amazing. This is one of those times. I love the darker finish and the painted base.
I'd suggest you keep your distance from schools 😉
@@itmeurdad What does that mean?
Great choice with the finish. The charcoal color was the best option in my opinion. The overall finish is awesome. Thanks for going for it.
Nice work with the fund raiser for a local charity. I totally support the move and the inclusion of drawings and animations in the videos. I live vicariously through channels like yours!! Every so often I find the time and the project to match my skill and tool set. You're making great content. Keep up the good work!
Wating 4 the vdossss , love from India , Kerala
Dude you nailed that. The Carob wood was too golden for my taste. I think the pure finish with the contrasting wood grain tone looks stunning in linear grain rather than the knotted pieces.
One of the beautifuls Table on UA-cam. Thank you for charing
I like that you touched the whole metric to what I call standard. I call it standard because, If a reasonable person was to create a measurement from scratch, it would always start with a unit, then cut it in half, and then in half again and so on and so forth... and boom, you have yourself an inch. Mathematically and naturally, 12 is a magic number as when doing math in your head, it is divisible by so many numbers, therefore 12 is an advanced builder's number. Going smaller, anything smaller than 1/32" will never be noticed by a human being with typical craftsman stuff. With metric going larger goes from wee to weird to huge. Metric is not made for builders and craftsman as much as the scientists and archeologists want it to be. It is for the guys that need paper to divide 5 in half. The problem lies in the fact that all of our math teachers were already confused themselves! Fractions could have been so easy!
This table is freaking gorgeous. And the whole video is super entertaining and fun to watch!
Absolute trip to see you blokes incorporate some Ironbark into a project!
The charcoal is beautiful! Good to see different ideas implemented. Thx
The table is gorgeous. I love your voiceover, both content and delivery. I'm glad I found this channel.
IMO, you made the right finish choices, both turned out fantastic.
Loved the video! Didn't care much for the table until you stained it - WOW! I'd love that in our living room.
The one tip that I have taken from your channel (and nowhere else), is that epoxy does not stick to tape, which is also true of common brown parcel tape. Saves a lot of time and money, and making small moulds is much easier - no more expensive HDPE!
Excellent video. Accompanying commentary very engaging. And your discourse that spring from your internal debate on the final finish is perfect. Agree with your every point. The final piece is beautiful. Love the way light highlights the form and surface.
Making that peice dark just made it awesome to look at. Thanks for sharing.
The combination of charcoal RMC and black legs came out really great... + I have to admit - I really enjoyed watching this video. I always learn something new from from your vids that I can later incorporate into my woodworking (well - that's a big word for my attempts to tame machines, wood and epoxy resin).
Thanks. I dig it too. Happy I went this way and would do it again. And glad to hear whenever anybody actually learns anything from these videos :)