Fire, Epoxy, and Free Wood

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Automotive painting tip: spray the ground with water before you start painting. It encapsulates any dust or debris on the ground and keeps it from spraying up onto the surface.

Ok. I’ve done the DIY paint booth. I can give you a few pointers. 1) You need to use PLASTIC drop cloth. Fabric drop cloth has loose fibers that can blow around. 2) You need to put the drop cloth at top, sides, and bottom, and they need to be taped together to seal the area. Also, tape around your ventilation unit. 3) Your “doorway” needs to be double flapped. By that, I mean that an overlap isn’t enough. Where the curtain parts to allow you access, you need another drop cloth over the gap to prevent the gap from opening up and letting dust in. 4) You need more slack on your air hose than you actually need because you need to tape it down and seal the drop cloth around it. 5) You should be wearing booties over your shoes. They’re not just for protecting your shoes, they’re also to keep any dust and crud from your shoes from getting blown around. Basically, be as OCD as possible when it comes to prepping the area. Maybe bring your wife out to check the area? Lol

Shouts out to Scott for the honesty! And shouts out to Cam for being able to accept critical feedback without getting puffy chested

This is a perfect example of "trusting the process." That ending is IMMACULATE

I love how Scott feels like a Friend, not just a guy you've hired but someone who adds to the show.

Engineer's painting tip: After you set up your booth, run a hepa air filter inside the booth for several hours to remove dust and debris from the air. Keep it running while the piece is drying to keep the air as clean as possible. Also, if proper ventilation allows use plastic drop cloths for the walls instead of cloth. Cloth gives off lint and dust particles, but plastic is much cleaner and won't contaminate the space. Make sure the floor is clean (wet helps) and wear a fresh clean suit. If your booth is sealed from floor to ceiling, then most contamination will come from your clothing. Also make sure the ceiling of your booth is closed so that contamination can't float in from outside. Once your booth is set up and clean, make sure you run the air filter for a few hours before you start.

If you haven’t figured out the dust problem yet from your DIY spray booth, it could be because you were using organic material drop cloths which have minuscule fibers. When the drop cloths are moved or bumped, they will drop fibers in the air and end up in your work. Could consider using plastic or spray your drop cloths with resin or another substance, which could bind all the small fibers, but still allow flexibility in the cloth. Just a thought, not sure I’m right. Also, your intake side of your booth if opening is at the top, your particulate matter is falling from the ceiling and ending on your work while being sucked through your vent at the bottom. Sealing your booth at the top and adding an additional filter at the bottom would create a lower entry point and exit point for your air intake and output and may keep particulate matter towards the bottom of your booth.

I love that you show the mistakes when making your projects. The best lessons come from mistakes. Mistakes always give a person a new perspective, changing how to use techniques for different projects.

Scott's been a great addition to the shop. It looks like you guys get along really well. That's the most important thing 🙂

It would be interesting to one day see a table where you take advantage of the bubbles from the epoxy and turn them into a feature

The small accident on your first table is what made it so good. This one looks like it has a big black line through the middle of it. You should make it more organic with more “accidents“ more organic transitions from black to natural wood. Amazing work ethic.👏

I hate tubers that stand in front of the camera and talk about what they are going to be doing and showing a fire for ever. That’s the reason that I really like Blacktail, you talk in the background while showing what you’re doing! Excellent, keep them coming!!

I will never make big resin projects or slab furniture, but your understated humor still makes this one of my very favorite channels.

From a fellow woodworker who was an auto body guy in a past life... canvas is fabric and holds dust and the like, bringing it into your booth. Plastic makes for a cleaner booth. Also, if you wet the floor a bit, it will hold down a lot of dust and light debris that you're finding in your finish. Makes the early and in between stages a lot easier on you. 🤘 Also, more. love these outside-the-box builds. Keep rockin on, man.

I would LOVE a table from a series like this!!!

Your dedication to perfect is off the hook

It's always impressive how you persevere and continue through errors and accidents to create something stunning

If you intend to do this DIY spray booth again, look into buying a small wedding tent with all the wall panels. The fabric drop cloth do nothing but release the kraken when it comes to finish work. The PVC wedding tents don't do that, plus they have a canopy which is huge as a significant amount of debris is dislodged from the ceiling from the airflow of the paint gun. I saw another commenter mentioned wetting down the ground (you would be amazed at how much dust gets kicked up). Having a dedicated spray hose, or get a hose cover that is single use. The spray gun is clean, the painter suit is clean, but everyone forgets the damn hose for some reason. If you really want to get obnoxious with the prep and clean you can hook up a negative and positive to your suit and your part. If you think your suit is up to the challenge, try taking a really clean part and rubbing it on your suit. Wait until you see how much debris collects on the suit just from static. If you must stick with the drop cloths, buy a garden pump sprayer and fill it with water, right before you do the final tack spray the drop cloths to the point they are wet. Keep at it, there are so many lessons that are learned only through trial by combat.

I am a certified fan of this channel. A major that I worked with in the Army once said to me. "I know that you make mistakes but I just can't catch you at them." To which I replied "Sir it's not about making mistakes, it knowing how to fix them." That principle is what keeps me coming back for more of BlacktailStudio projects. You make mistakes but watching you fix them is as informative as watching you start the project. It is so enjoyable to watch your programing, you don't talk so fast that I have to hit rewind 2 or 3 times and you really do create some outstanding pieces. Look forward to seeing more. Thanks.