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I see how it works, but when I look at it I still have a hard time wrapping my head around it. Very inventive and a real conversation piece. More a work of art than furniture. Thanks for sharing!
It's like this guy has never worked with wood before in his life and pulled off this amazing piece with 20$ worth of yardsale tools. Great job! Glad you're not dismembered too!
He just very obviously is not a practiced woodworker. I got the feeling that he is an engineer or maybe a wood turner that got the idea for this table, went out and bought some cheap power tools, and set to work. If you want to better understand what I mean, check out Blacktail Studios, Jay Bates, The Wood Whisperer, etc on RUclips. Blacktail makes some amazing tables, and you would definitely be able to notice the difference in skill levels. Jay Bates and the others are great too.
Appreciate it man, at the time I was just started with woodworking indeed, now I have many more tools and look forward to making more, much crazier stuff :)
Here is a tip, never use wood as a bushing from something that spins at around 20,000 rpm. Not very smart! If you have the wrong size collet for your router, get a new collet!
It's simple, the chain from both center ends are the one who carries the weight of the table top and the chain in the four corners are only there for support in order for the table not to flip. As you can see the corner chains does not have tension at all.
When I saw the thumbnail, I couldn't figure out how it worked, and assumed the final piece wouldn't look the same. But you did an awesome job! It looks fantastic, and now I understand the physics of the whole thing.
That is really genius, the chain in the middle works as tension member connecting the upper table to the stander. And the the other chains on the edges balance the force of the middle chain. I really love it 🌹🌹🌹. Nice work bro.
Wow. What a nice project! and you did it with basic power tools! Great job! and O BY THE WAY. I would not be worried about the folks that scrutinize your work for making do with you have. As if they have never done it before. It just kills me that people will actually watch these videos and wait for you/the person making the video to do something they might not do.....then tell you about it....as if we care. Nice job!
Firstly try too imagine the table without the 4 chains on each corner then concentrate on the middle with the 2 chains. The 2 chains are taking the weight and the 4 chains on corners are keeping it from tipping over side to side.
For me it looks pretty stable. The wobbly is present because its hanging. Use regular, fiirm and quality kind of wood. 100% it will not be wobbly. Does that makes sense?
wow!! marvelous table! you have golden hands! both this and the aquarium table you did. not to mention all your amazing twisty puzzles! once Ill have my own place I would love to hire your service! keep doing gorgeous pieces of art!
this is so cool. Anyone seeing this will not want to put anything on it for fear of it sliding off, like a plate of spaghetti. I could see a slimmer one for putting decorative items on it.
Wow. Very creative. I couldn't understand at first glance but watching the video, now I see that it's very simple. Like seeing how the illusion was made. Interesting
Tensegrity there is so many many creative minds at work creating these great talking points for any/every home..I am addicted to watching you may too L.O.L.
Ah now I understand. Those chains in the middle those chains in the arc that caused the table top to not fall. And the chains on the side enables the table top to not fall down to its side(balanced the table top) well executed man. I'm looking forward building a miniature similar concept of this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
01:34 The wooden sleeve might be the reason why the bearing of the router bit exploded here 08:39 Wood is compressable, you can tighten it and after a while it can get loose again. Quite dangerous. 02:59 You have a bandsaw, you could saw and laminate a few stripes of wood into a curve. It would have much more strength.
My thoughts exactly, I think he may be referring to you using a router to cut the shapes of the oval legs, it's probably why you blew the bearings out of that bit. Routers can be used for that, but not for long cuts and and thick wood. Jig Saw, Band Saw, Scroll Saw. But nevertheless, awesome table. Great job!
Instead of using/destroying the router to make the cuts and a file to finish them, he should have used a jigsaw to make them and the router to clean them up.
Come on do not discourage him, be good to him please, you can see that he has passion to create something good so do not hurt him, it is so very easy to comment BUT it is very hard to do something like this creation and take the trouble to put it on RUclips for you to see.
It's inevitable you're going to catch hell from real woodworkers and furniture makers, but big points to you for creativity and tenacity. I could see this being done with a brushed steel or wrought iron frame and sold for thousands of dollars to yuppies.
First glance makes you think the chains have been welded solid so they are a solid structure. Perhaps if you use strong fishing tackle or piano wire it will give more illusion to the floating them. Thoughts?
looks cool, but how can you sleep at night after making those cuts with a router? why not a band or even jig saw, the run the router real quick to soften the edge?
The easy way to look at it for a sense of the reality is to imagine the long chains at the corners for what they are... decorative, besides some directional stabilizing along the horizontal plane. As in, they provide nearly no vertical force. Cut to length, they just hang there.
If the corner chains weren't there the whole table top would roll onto one side, unless it was perfectly placed to balance in the middle somehow and never ever disturbed.
It's a bit of a mind fuck this table, but once you can figure what is supporting what, you realise it 100% could support a meal and easily support a laptop.
@@MuttleyVonErich00 with this being claimed to be a dining table, this design appears to be absolutely horrible for sitting anyone at the ends of the table because the wooden supports are pretty much the width of the table and right at the very end: where do you put your legs if you sit at the end? My Dad built a table 3.5’ by 7’ in the 80’s I inherited, made of oak, walnut plywood and maple, using sort of trestle style feet at both ends, with a narrow concave rounded octagon motif (no rounding for tabletop shape) where the sturdy 2 legs with huge feet are far enough from the ends anyone can sit comfortably at either end, and are deep enough in anyone can sit anywhere along the length. In addition to sitting concerns, since the table wasn’t really meant to be disassembled (I doubt it’d be as sturdy after that, if reassembled) it also, curiously enough, greatly impacts being able to move it through doorways into and out of houses and apartments, stairways, etc. that don’t have a lot of space. The geometry works out rather well for practical daily use as well as the mobile life it has acquired once I became an apartment nomad after the house I had. It doesn’t appear that this tensegrity table is intended to be disassembled. As much as my dining room table is no flyweight, 2 people are able to move it horizontally in and out of a room without tilting (assumes an archway wide enough between rooms) for cleaning, even kids, and 2 non-wimpy people to move it tilted sideways into/out of buildings: as much as it’s made of oak, walnut and maple, MDF is heavier, while also not being as strong, so if this table as I see it can’t be readily disassembled and reassembled, it’ll be problematic to move, though looking at the video again, it appears it uses wing nuts for the screws for the end support bolts, which should make disassembly/reassembly easy enough, but yet another thing to make it less than ideal for humans to be exposed to during use too near the ends.
@@MuttleyVonErich00 play around with a tensegrity sculpture and see how precariously the forces are balanced, then talk to me. Kyle Hill covered them a while back, maybe on Because Science. Food and electronics are big on stability. Now I feel like being a jerk. This dude has lousy craftsmanship skills and wasn't even set up for this project. The finished product looks like a high school student made it and if he wants more than a fiver for it he's crazy.
It would work. The entire table is hanging from the two center chains. All of the chains are in tension so it is a very stable table. What you can’t see in a video is that all the chains are in tension.
The weakest part in supporting a heavy load is the arm holding up the "U". I would estimate that would withstand the weight of a large man, it would just be wobbly until a center of mass was stablized. Replace the wood with metal (and the chain with cable) and you could probably set a car on it.
Very interesting! But, I would have one little design amendment. If you made the base part shorter and narrower, the corner chains would stabilise the table top better. For they would be tapering in and therefore working diagonally across the table to resist the opposite corners movement.
Nice job, but I would think fixing the band saw would have been easier than hogging it all out with a router. Its amazing what a new set of guide blocks and a sharp blade will do.
Thanks for the video. I’m from Canada and I really enjoyed watching your ingenuity and craftsmanship. Please don’t be offended but I noticed use your router for some things that should probably be done with a jigsaw. Using the router to cut through thick wood will eventually cook the points (motor magnets) as well overheat the bit bearing. The harder the wood, the quicker this will happen. But as a hobbyist, I understand we don’t have all the tools that we want so we do what we can with the tools we have. I don’t know if France has pawn shops or garage sales but if they do, you can usually find some pretty good used tools for next to nothing. I would invest in a table saw, jig saw, router table, belt sander, drill press, forstner bits, wood chisels, etc. I’ve collected tools for the past forty years and I can honestly say the older, well used tools are just a good or better than brand new tools. They are built tough, easy to fix and best of all, are usually really cheap to buy! Let me know if I can help you out. Your friend & new subscriber from Canada. Peace!
It would be possible to make a stable tensegrity table, but it would need far more than the four corner chains. Maybe have those and add around eight angled lengths of high strength fishing line around the edge to prevent wobble.
It would be unstable in longitudinal direction of the table, all restraints provided only for one direction movement what about its perpendicular direction ???
@Greg's Channel - Woodworking, DIY, Puzzles if a chain were run laterally from the bottom of the loop on the top to the base on each side would that about stop any wiggling? Been wanting to make something similar, looks awesome
This video was a bit disappointing because I wanted to see what it's like to use. When you press down on one part does it tilt? Do chains ever go slack and, if so, what causes it to happen? Can you stand on it? What happens if you try to lift one end in order to move the table? Video ended early, I think! But it's a nice _looking_ table all right!
That's a wonderful table, lovely design. Invest in some equipment to help with your fit and finish. Disk sander and bobber with like 40 or 60 grit disk and barrel. Bend some welding rod to layout the curves before bandsawing. And bandsaw very close to your layout line. Great work tho!
It's so cool that you did a large format version with two points taking weight - both of which I haven't seen anyone else built yet! I had been wondering on both of those topics!
cool build.. but seam waste a lot of material... just my thought.. the part that hold all the force does not look strong enough... for long terms... not just to support a table top, but all the load that will you put on them.
It won't "swing like a swing"... it may have some lateral play, but not much (if you tension the chains properly). If you push the table top in one direction, the chains all tension against each other restricting its movement in any direction.
@@georgeslorenzo280 ok? I didn't say anything about "x cross..." and I don't know what that means... Do you know what lateral means? This table will only be "totally unstable" if the chains are not tight.
Идея интересная, хотя я думаю стол получился плавающий, почему не показал его жесткость? А вот исполнение... Не думаю, что эти дуги долго будут ходить, лопнуть по направлению волокон... А ещё это ролик о том, как нельзя работать инструментом....
How stable is it in use? Have to imagine it, because we don't see video of you using or even touching the table after assembly. I have to believe that it moves easily side to side at least a short distance, since there is no cross bracing, so that glasses are much more likely to be toppled over in the event some relatively small contact against the side of the table when sitting at it.
While the design is cool, and there was a lot if work put into it, the quality of the work is lacking. The arches are not prefectly arched. The router work was alfo. The edges are all wavy.
And there’s people out there that buy ugly shit just because of a name and status, in the end he did a good job and it turned out the way HE wanted it to
I agree that he could have spent more care with assisted tools and straight edges or some aided pattern to be symmetric. I agree that if you’re going to do something that you do it right and not that freehand, unless you’re going for an organic look, which he wasn’t.
I agree.. Cool Idea but your craftmanship is lacking something fierce. I looked hard and couldn't find a straight edge o the piece. Nice idea... Try doing your next project with a little pride in your work. Great example of physics but also a Great example of not giving to shites about your work.
Run the outer chains diagonally to opposite corners with a pin binding them where they cross. If you do this once per axis, it will stabilize pitch and yaw.
Did you just use wood as a collet adapter? Not safe at all. Wood burns at high speeds on routers with the friction and will shoot a router bit like a bullet. I had a router bit once come out and thank god it flew the other way because I would have been seriously injured or dead if it would have hit me. Cool table though. Be safe.
уже не так круто будет. потому что очевидно, что в качестве стола эта конструкция совершенно непрактична. только в качестве элемента интерьера для тех, кому жил.площадь позволяет обзаводиться бесполезными предметами мебели.
А потому что нижняя подвеска не выдержит. Там самый край доски-отломается. И вообще-конструкция очень нежная. Нужно было некоторые элементы из металла делать а вместо доски фанеру. Но вес.....
I am carpenter and my eyes are bleeding of what I see. Wrong sequences, unsafe and incorrect use of tools. Video should be called: how you should not work with wood.
Yeah, I was cringing at the use of the router to make full depth cuts through that 8 quarter lumber. I wasn't surprised to see the router eat a bearing. Cool design, though.
Exactly what I thought! The curved pices are worked out so improperly it´s a shame! Why hadn´t you use a template to make them? And the massive waste of good wood for the stand... Sorry, nice idea, but a little more planning would have been better!
What do you mean? I always use a 12” drill for making a 2” counterbore. Keeps it nice and square that way... I hope he doesn’t use the table for chili or stew night.
Right from the get go when he broke out the Dremel to rip that MDF template I thought some weirdness was on its way.... I wonder if it’s dawned on this fella that correct use of tools might make his experience better. Hope he has all of his fingers in the coming years 😬
Same...personally I would have fixed my band saw tire rather than destroy my router bearing and bit...and used the right sized collet in my router...and...I could keep going but hey, he got away with it this time so why not advertise the methodology right?
Really cool build. I LOVE the arches! I'm not a fan of the chains, but that is personal design preference. I like the adjust ability of the eyelets. good job.
I’m not a big fan of the generic chain myself, but, I was thinking maybe some ships anchor chain would give it a bit of a nautical look. I’m not experienced in the nautical world and don’t know anything about anchor chain size, I’m just thinking it give it an interesting look. I also agree with other posters that some cross diagonal support along the length of the table would add substantial support! Unfortunately, the way the arches are fabricated, the additional weight of anchor chain might result in structural failure, specifically, the 2 arches coming up from the floor!😩 I don’t want to be overly critical of this project, visually, it’s really interesting, I just think it’s structurally under designed.
Daniel McKinney Yes, the monster chain we normally think of is huge, but I was thinking of something more along the size of a 2” link, see this link, www.diytrade.com/china/pd/10089205/Anchor_Chain.html. A co-worker of mine had anchor chain that he welded into a circular fire pit for his backyard. Welded up and looked nice with the fire backlighting the chain. I agree that the larger chain is huge, would need a forklift to move the table! Smaller chain would only need 3 men and a boy to move!
it's a " mind- fuck " bit of art-work. so glad it was shared. if I was to ask..I would happily pay for somebody to fit a motorised ( cheap engine ) I would supply and the old style cycle I have. I don't have the nouce to complete this project. but I pay for some one to do it. I make the tea and learn by watching. I really appreciate that. I in Canterbury U.K. well more Whitstable..if any one has the skill set to assist me. I don't expect anything ( for nothing ). I just would be so happy if someone could oblige. I am 56 and I care for my elderly father with my lady friend of 18 years. I have her blessing and my Dads but I am in no way mechanically minded..... helping me with my PX125 VESPA that requires a bit of t.l.c. around the gearing.... is another story . Are there any sympathetic souls out there in youtube land. That can make my dream come true . ...this is just a " shot in the dark ".. my cup is half full. Thank- you for even reading this. cheers
I really like the design. But by the time I was at the end of video my thoughts are like as an show piece it's amazing and definitely stands out. Please share extended version of video with some stuff on table and with some movement. Just to understand it's sturdiness
scary to watch. glad you are more versed in using tools today lol. came out better than i would have imagined. great job, hopefully no one tries to do it exactly your way, i don’t mean that negatively. kids, if you’re gonna use a router, little passes at a time. not the whole thing.
This table is "read only". Without any sort of tension in the chains, it would wobble like a waterbed even if you simply breath on it. Nice if this was built only as a piece of art, boo if it was also meant to be practical.
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I'm thinking..... PVC and Paracord......
I see how it works, but when I look at it I still have a hard time wrapping my head around it. Very inventive and a real conversation piece. More a work of art than furniture. Thanks for sharing!
It's like this guy has never worked with wood before in his life and pulled off this amazing piece with 20$ worth of yardsale tools. Great job! Glad you're not dismembered too!
He just very obviously is not a practiced woodworker. I got the feeling that he is an engineer or maybe a wood turner that got the idea for this table, went out and bought some cheap power tools, and set to work. If you want to better understand what I mean, check out Blacktail Studios, Jay Bates, The Wood Whisperer, etc on RUclips. Blacktail makes some amazing tables, and you would definitely be able to notice the difference in skill levels. Jay Bates and the others are great too.
Imagine what he would do with actual wood working tools for the job....
Appreciate it man, at the time I was just started with woodworking indeed, now I have many more tools and look forward to making more, much crazier stuff :)
Here is a tip, never use wood as a bushing from something that spins at around 20,000 rpm. Not very smart! If you have the wrong size collet for your router, get a new collet!
also I wouldn't advise holding the workpiece to your chest and then routing...
I've seen many floating tables and chairs, but this is my favorite so far. Very pretty!
Even though I can understand the physics of it, my brain still doesn't like seeing this. lol
It's simple, the chain from both center ends are the one who carries the weight of the table top and the chain in the four corners are only there for support in order for the table not to flip. As you can see the corner chains does not have tension at all.
@@BEN1MARU27 he understands it. It's just his brain doesn't like it, maybe bcause it's look trippy or something.
@@sykrhd7093 oh shit, It was my eye who misread the word "can" lmao
Yeah it's like a illusion.
Whats the use of it?
When I saw the thumbnail, I couldn't figure out how it worked, and assumed the final piece wouldn't look the same. But you did an awesome job! It looks fantastic, and now I understand the physics of the whole thing.
That is really genius, the chain in the middle works as tension member connecting the upper table to the stander. And the the other chains on the edges balance the force of the middle chain.
I really love it 🌹🌹🌹.
Nice work bro.
Wow. What a nice project! and you did it with basic power tools! Great job! and O BY THE WAY. I would not be worried about the folks that scrutinize your work for making do with you have. As if they have never done it before. It just kills me that people will actually watch these videos and wait for you/the person making the video to do something they might not do.....then tell you about it....as if we care.
Nice job!
Firstly try too imagine the table without the 4 chains on each corner then concentrate on the middle with the 2 chains. The 2 chains are taking the weight and the 4 chains on corners are keeping it from tipping over side to side.
Absolutely.....I also saw the thumbnail and I was like yes it's damn practicable.
I wish you would have shown how stable it is. Shove on it, or something.
Rick Frazier Yeah, I was thinking the same thing too. I wonder how much it swings.
For me it looks pretty stable. The wobbly is present because its hanging. Use regular, fiirm and quality kind of wood. 100% it will not be wobbly. Does that makes sense?
Me too 😜
you see it wobble at 12:25
Raynhardx thanks. this thing is pretty wobbly.
Brilliant, Brilliant ! That looks so good.
Many thanks......all the way from London.
wow!! marvelous table! you have golden hands! both this and the aquarium table you did. not to mention all your amazing twisty puzzles!
once Ill have my own place I would love to hire your service!
keep doing gorgeous pieces of art!
It would be with pleasure ! :)
Thanks !
this is so cool. Anyone seeing this will not want to put anything on it for fear of it sliding off, like a plate of spaghetti. I could see a slimmer one for putting decorative items on it.
My brain: Ah, the physic laws of tension and force.
Also my brain: THERE'S A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX!!
Wow. Very creative. I couldn't understand at first glance but watching the video, now I see that it's very simple. Like seeing how the illusion was made. Interesting
Tensegrity there is so many many creative minds at work creating these great talking points for any/every home..I am addicted to watching you may too L.O.L.
Ah now I understand. Those chains in the middle those chains in the arc that caused the table top to not fall. And the chains on the side enables the table top to not fall down to its side(balanced the table top) well executed man. I'm looking forward building a miniature similar concept of this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
01:34 The wooden sleeve might be the reason why the bearing of the router bit exploded here 08:39
Wood is compressable, you can tighten it and after a while it can get loose again. Quite dangerous.
02:59 You have a bandsaw, you could saw and laminate a few stripes of wood into a curve. It would have much more strength.
Using a router as a saw= exploding bearings
Exactly. Never heard of a jigsaw??? The science is impressive, but your carpentry knowledge is subpar.
I watched the whole thing and still sat there going frame by frame on the end result.
You're a wizard, greg.
What’s even more amazing? He doesn’t own a saw!
Yeah, that's called getting it done with what you have
A 1/2” router but no jigsaw.
Lol he used all the saws. A band saw, a circular saw even a damn hand saw, what video were you watching?
The one where his band saw broke!
This brings tears of joy to my eyes. I love physics !
Enjoying the video so far. Should be called: How do use the wrong powertools.
My thoughts exactly, I think he may be referring to you using a router to cut the shapes of the oval legs, it's probably why you blew the bearings out of that bit. Routers can be used for that, but not for long cuts and and thick wood. Jig Saw, Band Saw, Scroll Saw. But nevertheless, awesome table. Great job!
Anyone else get forest Whitaker eye when he put a wood sleeve in the router collett?
Lol
Instead of using/destroying the router to make the cuts and a file to finish them, he should have used a jigsaw to make them and the router to clean them up.
My mind still can’t process this amazing table. Thanks for sharing
Title of this video should be" THE IMPOSSIBLE FLOATING TABLE YOU CAN'T USE" .😂😂😂
It's not floating, its hanging.
@@nathanledgerwood4529 my bad! "The impossible hanging table, you can't you use" it ok now.😀
@@AMITRANA-il4sw you can't use
Come on do not discourage him, be good to him please, you can see that he has passion to create something good so do not hurt him, it is so very easy to comment BUT it is very hard to do something like this creation and take the trouble to put it on RUclips for you to see.
The only way you can't use this is if the tension on the chains is off, but but then you got the long hooks but the butterfly nuts to adjust that
It's inevitable you're going to catch hell from real woodworkers and furniture makers, but big points to you for creativity and tenacity. I could see this being done with a brushed steel or wrought iron frame and sold for thousands of dollars to yuppies.
It collapses when pushed in the length way.
To be stable it would need angled tension lines between top and base. They would though get in the way if you wanted to sit at the table.
Now make two tensegrity chairs to match. Love it
Can you set anything on it? Like would a cup spill? Really cool either way just curious.
u worked very hard!!
who else was expecting someone to sit and use this table.
exactly.... it won't last long....
@@newzztube of course not,. It's just for show 🤷
@@newzztube It could if you tension the chains enough. Make them tight and the table wont move much at all.
Me
Tag weld the chains and now u have a table.
This is an amazing creation, plan, and execution! Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us! 😃😇🥰
First glance makes you think the chains have been welded solid so they are a solid structure. Perhaps if you use strong fishing tackle or piano wire it will give more illusion to the floating them. Thoughts?
looks cool, but how can you sleep at night after making those cuts with a router? why not a band or even jig saw, the run the router real quick to soften the edge?
The easy way to look at it for a sense of the reality is to imagine the long chains at the corners for what they are... decorative, besides some directional stabilizing along the horizontal plane. As in, they provide nearly no vertical force. Cut to length, they just hang there.
They stop the table from tipping due to any imbalance.
@@phonicmonkey8213 not sure on that one. i would like to understand the design engineering, if applicable...
If the corner chains weren't there the whole table top would roll onto one side, unless it was perfectly placed to balance in the middle somehow and never ever disturbed.
Woah this is awesome!
3 years and still no comments…
Did I miss the part where he puts things on it, like serves a meal or uses a laptop?
It's a bit of a mind fuck this table, but once you can figure what is supporting what, you realise it 100% could support a meal and easily support a laptop.
@@MuttleyVonErich00 with this being claimed to be a dining table, this design appears to be absolutely horrible for sitting anyone at the ends of the table because the wooden supports are pretty much the width of the table and right at the very end: where do you put your legs if you sit at the end?
My Dad built a table 3.5’ by 7’ in the 80’s I inherited, made of oak, walnut plywood and maple, using sort of trestle style feet at both ends, with a narrow concave rounded octagon motif (no rounding for tabletop shape) where the sturdy 2 legs with huge feet are far enough from the ends anyone can sit comfortably at either end, and are deep enough in anyone can sit anywhere along the length. In addition to sitting concerns, since the table wasn’t really meant to be disassembled (I doubt it’d be as sturdy after that, if reassembled) it also, curiously enough, greatly impacts being able to move it through doorways into and out of houses and apartments, stairways, etc. that don’t have a lot of space. The geometry works out rather well for practical daily use as well as the mobile life it has acquired once I became an apartment nomad after the house I had.
It doesn’t appear that this tensegrity table is intended to be disassembled. As much as my dining room table is no flyweight, 2 people are able to move it horizontally in and out of a room without tilting (assumes an archway wide enough between rooms) for cleaning, even kids, and 2 non-wimpy people to move it tilted sideways into/out of buildings: as much as it’s made of oak, walnut and maple, MDF is heavier, while also not being as strong, so if this table as I see it can’t be readily disassembled and reassembled, it’ll be problematic to move, though looking at the video again, it appears it uses wing nuts for the screws for the end support bolts, which should make disassembly/reassembly easy enough, but yet another thing to make it less than ideal for humans to be exposed to during use too near the ends.
@@MuttleyVonErich00 play around with a tensegrity sculpture and see how precariously the forces are balanced, then talk to me. Kyle Hill covered them a while back, maybe on Because Science. Food and electronics are big on stability.
Now I feel like being a jerk. This dude has lousy craftsmanship skills and wasn't even set up for this project. The finished product looks like a high school student made it and if he wants more than a fiver for it he's crazy.
It would work. The entire table is hanging from the two center chains. All of the chains are in tension so it is a very stable table. What you can’t see in a video is that all the chains are in tension.
The weakest part in supporting a heavy load is the arm holding up the "U". I would estimate that would withstand the weight of a large man, it would just be wobbly until a center of mass was stablized. Replace the wood with metal (and the chain with cable) and you could probably set a car on it.
Nice work. Table looks great and original. Took me a while staring at the screen to figure it out. Definitely an optical illusion.
Very interesting!
But, I would have one little design amendment. If you made the base part shorter and narrower, the corner chains would stabilise the table top better. For they would be tapering in and therefore working diagonally across the table to resist the opposite corners movement.
Very clever! Took me a few minutes before my brain explained to my eyes what was I was seeing!
Nice job, but I would think fixing the band saw would have been easier than hogging it all out with a router. Its amazing what a new set of guide blocks and a sharp blade will do.
Amazing ideas you have. Earthquake proof as well.
This table is beautiful! I like it!
Thanks for the video. I’m from Canada and I really enjoyed watching your ingenuity and craftsmanship. Please don’t be offended but I noticed use your router for some things that should probably be done with a jigsaw. Using the router to cut through thick wood will eventually cook the points (motor magnets) as well overheat the bit bearing. The harder the wood, the quicker this will happen. But as a hobbyist, I understand we don’t have all the tools that we want so we do what we can with the tools we have. I don’t know if France has pawn shops or garage sales but if they do, you can usually find some pretty good used tools for next to nothing. I would invest in a table saw, jig saw, router table, belt sander, drill press, forstner bits, wood chisels, etc. I’ve collected tools for the past forty years and I can honestly say the older, well used tools are just a good or better than brand new tools. They are built tough, easy to fix and best of all, are usually really cheap to buy! Let me know if I can help you out. Your friend & new subscriber from Canada. Peace!
Cool built. Is there any reason gor using a router over a jigsaw?
Incredible table. It really does look like it is suspended in mid air. Thanks for sharing.
No one shows tensegrity tables in use, they are shaky, try eating soup on those, for art exhibition, pottery or lamps, it would work great.
Perfect I was hunting for something like this in the comments, but looks like I don't need to bother with the facts, you nailed it for me.
It would be possible to make a stable tensegrity table, but it would need far more than the four corner chains. Maybe have those and add around eight angled lengths of high strength fishing line around the edge to prevent wobble.
@@peterjf7723 worth a shot. I´ll be making one myself. they do look great
For someone with only rudimentary shop and tools skills, it is INDEED remarkable.
It would be unstable in longitudinal direction of the table, all restraints provided only for one direction movement what about its perpendicular direction ???
@Greg's Channel - Woodworking, DIY, Puzzles if a chain were run laterally from the bottom of the loop on the top to the base on each side would that about stop any wiggling? Been wanting to make something similar, looks awesome
This video was a bit disappointing because I wanted to see what it's like to use. When you press down on one part does it tilt? Do chains ever go slack and, if so, what causes it to happen? Can you stand on it? What happens if you try to lift one end in order to move the table? Video ended early, I think! But it's a nice _looking_ table all right!
It is unstable totally to for showcase
That's a wonderful table, lovely design.
Invest in some equipment to help with your fit and finish. Disk sander and bobber with like 40 or 60 grit disk and barrel. Bend some welding rod to layout the curves before bandsawing. And bandsaw very close to your layout line.
Great work tho!
It's so cool that you did a large format version with two points taking weight - both of which I haven't seen anyone else built yet! I had been wondering on both of those topics!
excellent design and workmanship,
cool build.. but seam waste a lot of material... just my thought.. the part that hold all the force does not look strong enough... for long terms... not just to support a table top, but all the load that will you put on them.
nazhammerheart wasting material will always happen when using curves. But without them he will be just another “plywood worker”
Steam bending would be the least waste, and strongest, with edge grain throughout. This eliminates the end grain weakness. Very cool table.
A wooden router bushing?
You have to be the bravest (or craziest) person alive!
Não passa a ideia de ser funcional. Mas de ser uma ideia bem original ! Peça única.
Além do mais não parece estável. Deve balançar.
Peça de escultura praticamente.
Vou tentar construir uma em miniatura
Great...the real innovative idea.
Congratulation..
Good to fabricate similar designed for chair with support of spring suspension at center point .
this table is totally unstable lengthwise it swings like a swing
Needs to connect the two hanging chains at an angle to the base with two chains. IMO.
Yeah X cross over on ends and lengths will do the stabilizing. Str8 vertical wont as shown
It won't "swing like a swing"... it may have some lateral play, but not much (if you tension the chains properly). If you push the table top in one direction, the chains all tension against each other restricting its movement in any direction.
@@squirts1 I said lengthwise... Ehsan wrote X cross... Kindly
@@georgeslorenzo280 ok? I didn't say anything about "x cross..." and I don't know what that means...
Do you know what lateral means? This table will only be "totally unstable" if the chains are not tight.
Seriously amazed on your hard-working and result was awesome
Beautiful work. I wonder how stable the table is. Could it be used as a dinner table? Congratulations!
Genuinely brilliant... Kudos
Anything sitting on this table in an earthquake would be unaffected.
That is a fabulous design. I want one.
That is damn cool! I wanted to see the top get bumped in order to see how much it would move.
I will move, the chain is going to rock from side to side ,nice to look at but not functional
Идея интересная, хотя я думаю стол получился плавающий, почему не показал его жесткость? А вот исполнение... Не думаю, что эти дуги долго будут ходить, лопнуть по направлению волокон... А ещё это ролик о том, как нельзя работать инструментом....
I'm going to make one.😀 Hope you don't mind. I think it looks amazing!
Great design, would looks awesome with black chain. Like a medieval look.
Watched to see something of weight put on it...
This is most amazing talent. Great work. Its art
I applaud the creativity, it's an interesting design for sure. But since you didn't demonstrate it, I assume it wobbles like crazy.
if the tension is there, it actually shouldn't wobble very much at all, it's all that physics lark :D
How stable is it in use? Have to imagine it, because we don't see video of you using or even touching the table after assembly. I have to believe that it moves easily side to side at least a short distance, since there is no cross bracing, so that glasses are much more likely to be toppled over in the event some relatively small contact against the side of the table when sitting at it.
Весь инструмент продемонстрировал! А распилить можно было все одним!
Look ma, a floating table!
Creative & nice, keep up the good work 👍
That’s one of the better tensegrity tables I’ve seen.
Beautiful work.
beautiful work? That's some of most sloppy woodwork I have ever seen
Excellent use of quarantine time....
While the design is cool, and there was a lot if work put into it, the quality of the work is lacking. The arches are not prefectly arched. The router work was alfo. The edges are all wavy.
And there’s people out there that buy ugly shit just because of a name and status, in the end he did a good job and it turned out the way HE wanted it to
I'm sure you can contrive a better method in your garage. I eagerly await your video on the matter.
I agree that he could have spent more care with assisted tools and straight edges or some aided pattern to be symmetric. I agree that if you’re going to do something that you do it right and not that freehand, unless you’re going for an organic look, which he wasn’t.
I agree.. Cool Idea but your craftmanship is lacking something fierce. I looked hard and couldn't find a straight edge o the piece. Nice idea... Try doing your next project with a little pride in your work. Great example of physics but also a Great example of not giving to shites about your work.
You work with what you have.
I love your brand new power tools :)
Просто нереально! Фантастика! Мастер - гений!!!😍
Run the outer chains diagonally to opposite corners with a pin binding them where they cross. If you do this once per axis, it will stabilize pitch and yaw.
Unnecessary.
Did you just use wood as a collet adapter? Not safe at all. Wood burns at high speeds on routers with the friction and will shoot a router bit like a bullet. I had a router bit once come out and thank god it flew the other way because I would have been seriously injured or dead if it would have hit me. Cool table though. Be safe.
Neat opticaly but it's a hanging table, stability of a waterbed.
Wrong. The tension keeps it stable.
Your talent is unbeatable and the person who did the video recording did an awesome job...it's almost soothing. Amazing work!
I do both building and recording, thanks so much :)
Блин, почему никто, кто делает на ютьюбчике такие столы в конце не ставят кружку с водой на него и не толкают столешницу?
уже не так круто будет. потому что очевидно, что в качестве стола эта конструкция совершенно непрактична. только в качестве элемента интерьера для тех, кому жил.площадь позволяет обзаводиться бесполезными предметами мебели.
А потому что нижняя подвеска не выдержит. Там самый край доски-отломается. И вообще-конструкция очень нежная. Нужно было некоторые элементы из металла делать а вместо доски фанеру. Но вес.....
Nice! And I like the soundtrack.
I am carpenter and my eyes are bleeding of what I see. Wrong sequences, unsafe and incorrect use of tools.
Video should be called: how you should not work with wood.
Yeah, I was cringing at the use of the router to make full depth cuts through that 8 quarter lumber. I wasn't surprised to see the router eat a bearing. Cool design, though.
Exactly what I thought! The curved pices are worked out so improperly it´s a shame! Why hadn´t you use a template to make them? And the massive waste of good wood for the stand... Sorry, nice idea, but a little more planning would have been better!
What do you mean? I always use a 12” drill for making a 2” counterbore. Keeps it nice and square that way... I hope he doesn’t use the table for chili or stew night.
Right from the get go when he broke out the Dremel to rip that MDF template I thought some weirdness was on its way.... I wonder if it’s dawned on this fella that correct use of tools might make his experience better. Hope he has all of his fingers in the coming years 😬
Same...personally I would have fixed my band saw tire rather than destroy my router bearing and bit...and used the right sized collet in my router...and...I could keep going but hey, he got away with it this time so why not advertise the methodology right?
Is there a follow up video showing the table in use? What is it like to eat on?
Really cool build. I LOVE the arches! I'm not a fan of the chains, but that is personal design preference. I like the adjust ability of the eyelets. good job.
I’m not a big fan of the generic chain myself, but, I was thinking maybe some ships anchor chain would give it a bit of a nautical look. I’m not experienced in the nautical world and don’t know anything about anchor chain size, I’m just thinking it give it an interesting look. I also agree with other posters that some cross diagonal support along the length of the table would add substantial support! Unfortunately, the way the arches are fabricated, the additional weight of anchor chain might result in structural failure, specifically, the 2 arches coming up from the floor!😩 I don’t want to be overly critical of this project, visually, it’s really interesting, I just think it’s structurally under designed.
Anchor chains are HUGE
Aren't the eyelets required in order to add tension?
Daniel McKinney Yes, the monster chain we normally think of is huge, but I was thinking of something more along the size of a 2” link, see this link, www.diytrade.com/china/pd/10089205/Anchor_Chain.html. A co-worker of mine had anchor chain that he welded into a circular fire pit for his backyard. Welded up and looked nice with the fire backlighting the chain. I agree that the larger chain is huge, would need a forklift to move the table! Smaller chain would only need 3 men and a boy to move!
it's a " mind- fuck " bit of art-work. so glad it was shared. if I was to ask..I would happily pay for somebody to fit a motorised ( cheap engine ) I would supply and the old style cycle I have. I don't have the nouce to complete this project. but I pay for some one to do it. I make the tea and learn by watching. I really appreciate that. I in Canterbury U.K. well more Whitstable..if any one has the skill set to assist me. I don't expect anything ( for nothing ). I just would be so happy if someone could oblige.
I am 56 and I care for my elderly father with my lady friend of 18 years. I have her blessing and my Dads but I am in no way mechanically minded.....
helping me with my PX125 VESPA that requires a bit of t.l.c. around the gearing.... is another story . Are there any sympathetic souls out there in youtube land. That can make my dream come true . ...this is just a " shot in the dark ".. my cup is half full.
Thank- you for even reading this. cheers
Outstanding and wonderful work
I really like the design. But by the time I was at the end of video my thoughts are like as an show piece it's amazing and definitely stands out. Please share extended version of video with some stuff on table and with some movement. Just to understand it's sturdiness
I think it is not meant to be for it... Sure, it sway so much.
Awesome build/art.
I coupd not finish this video after you broke the band saw blade and decided a router was saw this video on the cring scale is at least an 8
That's exactly what I was thinking. He seems pretty novice cutting the plywood too.
scary to watch. glad you are more versed in using tools today lol. came out better than i would have imagined. great job, hopefully no one tries to do it exactly your way, i don’t mean that negatively. kids, if you’re gonna use a router, little passes at a time. not the whole thing.
The hair on my neck stood up when you router the rounded "legs" up in the air like that. 🚑🏥😷
My stomach did a little flip watching some of the drilling
@@NuncNuncNuncNunc that's all it takes?? Ur weak AF ...
Super Super cool.. Sooooo creative!
This table is "read only". Without any sort of tension in the chains, it would wobble like a waterbed even if you simply breath on it. Nice if this was built only as a piece of art, boo if it was also meant to be practical.
without corner chains it would flop over
Monumental ,genial,lo voy poner en práctica ,realmente será un reto,pero se entiende perfecto en el vídeo,gracias,Formosa,argentina
Nice build but it looks like you have the grain in the wrong direction on those full curved pieces. May not last too long under tension.
agree , no way this table can handle load on it
The small chains hold the top up the long keep it from tipping. Looks neat
While watching I'm trying to find the science in it.
Edit: I found it when I remembered it's construction