you know how sometimes you have an ideathat you know is bad but you do it anyway so i initially had this idea afew months ago i was working on something in my garage and i saw a fewbroken crayons sitting in the house and i thought i wonder what would happen ifi melted and inlaid these in some wood in fact this shot is my initial testfrom that day flash-forward a couple months i'm in mynew shop i finally got things mostly organizedand now i can give it a real shot so if i'm being honest i was probably about75% certain that this would work at all actually that's not true if you asked meto break it down beforehand i would have
said that there's about a 5% chance thatit'll go flawlessly a 5% chance that it will completely fail and a 90% chancethat it'll work out but that there will be some compromises along the way a fewbumps and bruises and maybe a couple of regrets kind of like life oh and naysayers let me save you thetrouble this is a terrible idea it's impracticalit's gimmicky it's arguably a waste of wood but it was also a lot of fun andthat's worth something a lot actually so so far you just beenseeing me mill up my walnut and prep it for gluing into one larger slab here i'mover using some dominoes because i want
to make sure that both of the boardsstay perfectly coplanar after i gloom up after it was dry took one more reallylight pass on the planer and that was really just to get rid of any gluesqueeze-out so this one board is gonna give me thetop and both of the legs so what i'm doing in this shot is sort of dividingit into sections so that i know where each of the break points is gonna bethat way i can plan out where i want my crayon river to flow where i wanted tostop and start and so forth the next thing i did was take a sharpie androughly trace out said river then my first idea was to use the edge of mysander to start carving out the path and
as you're gonna see in the next shot iended up abandoning this method but the reason that i went with it is that ithought it was gonna come out looking more natural but it was kind of slow soi figured i'd just route it instead and this worked fine it has a sort ofplanned organic look that feels random enough while my main river was cooling idecided to play around with blending techniques on some plywood there was adefinite middle ground that i was going fori wanted the colors to blend a little but not too much kind of like a marblingwhere any to meet also if you watch
closely here you can actually see thewax turn back into a solid kind of cool once my wax was significantly solid icame back with a card scraper and remove anything that spilled over the edge andyou can see in this shot that the wax actually sits below the top of the woodand the reason for that is that i thought it would be easier to geteverything level with the planer rather than by hand and i'd rather remove thewood with the plainer than wax going through the planer caused one littleblemish but luckily it's pretty easy to repair this stuffand i can hear what you're thinking why not leave the cran wax low and do thetop in a clear resin or epoxy so i
actually tried that on a test piece andit ended up causing more problems at least for me what it ended up doing waspulling up the wax entirely and i think you could get around that if you did areally thick coat of epoxy but that would have a totally different look somaybe for another day all right now let's turn this thing into a table or awaterfall coffee table more specifically actually that might not be technicallycorrect but in any case a table where the grain stays consistent where ittransitions from top to leg and doing this is pretty simple to explain butit'll be even easier with an animation so basically i'm going to cut a pair ofbevels where the legs meet the top then
on one of the legs we'll flip it aroundand back bevel it and then do the same to one end of thetop after that we can tilt our blade back upto 90 degrees and cut our legs to their final length and then we can assemble itall so this pretty much all went exactly asplanned except that cutting wood generates heatand heat melts wax so this is where the one major blemish of this table occurredbut we'll try to fix that later try being the operative word there now this clamping situation might look alittle weird but what i'm doing is using
the tape method that you seem to useplenty of other times and then using a strap clamp and some squares to applypressure to make sure that the joints are at 90 degrees after it was dry icame back and reinforced these with some dominoes and you could definitely get bywithout this but i had an idea for an extra little color pop by shortening thedomino's and bearing them below the surface and then filling the mortis withsome more current and while i'm doing that let's take a minute to think thisweek sponsor expressvpn so if you're not familiar with a vpn it stands for avirtual private network and people use them for all sorts of reasons personallyi like that expressvpn protects me
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don't doubt that it could i was sort ofworried about overworking things at this point so i figured best to just livewith the gap then to make things worse after that it was on the sanding andfinishing and when you stand it's gonna really dull the cran but after you puton your maker brand simple finish with wax gonna come right back to life you one of the most important processes oractivities that enables growth at least in my opinion is experimentation that iswhen you have an idea be it good or bad you have the luxury toexplore it and see where it might lead
and that was something that was reallymissing from my life a few months ago because i've working full time whilesimultaneously trying to meet all the deadlines in my upload schedule icouldn't really play with things basically knowing that any misstep couldset me back a couple of days meant that i couldn't afford myself any missteps inother words the freedom to fail and of everything that's changed for me thatarguably could be the biggest difference maker in wherever i end up in a fewmonths or a few years from now it really feels like for the first time in my lifeanything that i want to do or try a crayon special thanks to josh loguebrent young andrew hayden robin mohamed
andreas pallidus and the rest of mypatreon members for making these videos possible if it weren't for you iwouldn't be able to do a lot of the things that i'm doing experimenting withstupid ideas like melting crayons into a table i wouldn't have the confidence todo it because i wouldn't have the freedom to fail so thank you for givingme that freedom and if you want to find out how you can support the show toojust click the patreon link in the description and as always no pressurealright thanks for watching thanks for subscribing and i'll see you in the nextone