The Worst Wood To Build With

Summary by Krater

The creator attempts to build a massive round table out of a walnut cookie slab. He details the fabrication process, encounters challenges with dry ice blasting, epoxy filling, wood grain sealing, and a table base collaboration with another woodworker, ultimately concluding that trapped moisture ruined the slab for table use.

From the video

Answers: How do you build a large live edge walnut cookie table with epoxy?

• live-edge walnut cookie table
• epoxy wood finishing
• dry ice blasting wood
• wood moisture detection

What it concludes

• Pure Space dry ice blasting cleaned the slab well, but the $1,500 minimum charge makes it impractical for average woodworkers.
• Sealing end grain with epoxy prevents black epoxy from bleeding into the wood and staining it.
• A Wagner Orion moisture meter is essential for checking wood moisture content before starting a build.
• Trapped moisture pockets in the walnut cookie slab made the finished table unusable.