IMPOSSIBLE Floating Spiral Table Build - How Does it Work?

[@Lori_M]

I would love to see an inlaid gaming/coffee table that flips over on an axis. One side is an inlaid gaming table for chess, checkers, cards, etc., with storage compartments for gaming pieces. The other side is a standard coffee table with built-in cork drink coasters and inlaid place settings (maybe?). Once you flip it to the side you need, have a cool locking mechanism to keep the tabletop steady and firm. What do you think??? Maybe with matching seating? And if you're feeling ambitious, make it for an outdoor setting!

[@classicjazztbone]

“To the table saw!” then cuts to the jointer… 😂 that’s how my brain usually works, too!

[@vrabel1030]

I scrolled down to say the exact same thing! Lol

[@kurshinburshin9784]

Plus 1 on commenting the same thing lol

[@robm9772]

Beat me to it.

[@brianscott3021]

That’s what I was thinking

[@bg2608ret]

Huh, was just thinking I’m glad I’m not the only one who does that 😖

[@WearyChickenhawk]

Love the use of the PAPR instead of a dust mask! Brilliant, but waaaay too expensive for home use, so I'm jealous.

[@RickFinch-k6j]

best way I've found to assemble segmented glue ups (I do a lot of hexagon/octagon picture frames and cedar bongs) ;ay the painters tape out on the table sticky side up, (fold the ends over to hold it to the table) then lay the segment out on the tape apply glue and just fold it up. the key is the angle, the angles need to be just about perfect. if you want to spiral it to the center you have to keep increasing the angle. e.g. 22.5 to 22 to 21.5 to 21 to 20.5 to 20. I'm not sure of the exact angles and how many of each you'd need. guess that depends on how tall you want it and how fast you want it to spiral to the center.

[@wuerfel_schmied]

I think with a giant acrylic tube inside instead of the small sticks it would look much better. I know, tube in that size is expensive, but it would look awesome.

[@John_Malecki]

It would look awesome, and also cost the same as a mortgage haha acrylic aint cheap! You nailed that part

[@fdort3971]

@JohnMalecki I'm going to reference chocolatier stuff here...if I want to make a fragile chocolate bowl...the first thing I do is blow! I use a food safe balloon and blow it to the size I want. I figure out a way to support it...then make and pour the chocolate on the balloon...once the chocolate hardens...very carefully pop the balloon and pull it away... In your case...your balloon could be a parchment paper covered cement form...to make it more structurally sound...do hidden dowels in every piece...less blow out!

[@TheWoodFly]

Fabricobble lvl 100! I was also thinking clamping a pipe or rod on the inside while carving could dampen the vibration enough to keep it together. Great music selection, good humor and no blood. I'd say another win!

[@jasonmorgan6825]

My new favorite channel...

[@hybridmotionjunkuribayashi4913]

My initial thought watching this was, "sweeeet!". Then I had a thought... What if you inlaid metal into the lining of the wood that then connected to an clear epoxy stand at the bottom to still give the "floating" effect? Either way, love the floating series you're doing. Keep up the awesome work

[@paedahe4975]

If only it truly was a floating table. The acrylic kills the look. That being said, it looks good from far away.

[@paedahe4975]

...and it looks good in photos when photoshopped like in the thumbnail.

[@JJFliesAndMakes]

Agree, I was thinking about metal frame just sorrounded by wood and big thin metal plate as base. Same principe as street floating "magicians" use.

[@hybridmotionjunkuribayashi4913]

@@JJFliesAndMakes I had the exact same thought... Except a clear epoxy base.

[@Andrewlang90]

Well, until we perfect magic, acrylic is the only trick we’d got

[@bclance]

You were looking for “rabbet.” Also, I’ve been a fan of the channel for a while, so I’m not saying this to troll, just sharing a faithful viewer’s two cents : I like these builds, but hate when you edit out the acrylic in the thumbnail. Makes it feel really clickbaity and cheapens the actual end result. All in all, sick piece. Hope you and the fam are doing well.

[@WesHamstra]

I agree

[@linkpalmer]

I honestly think it would have looked better with wood or steel where the acrylic is, and lean into how weird the table is. The acrylic looks like a last minute addition

[@emmanueleferrarotto2986]

"We have never done this before" and "i hope it works" usually make the best videos^^ Like this one Great job all

[@prestonbowden]

John is an artist with the sharpie

[@wheathinzz]

Let’s see the new shop already!!

[@CreampieSamuri]

WHAT IS THAT AWESOME RESPIRATOR SETUP JOHN?!

[@McClaw19]

It's a 3M Versaflo

[@gagewoodcock2479]

Cool Idea and love the channel! A couple of tips to improve the whole piece. 1. Dowels in the original glue up will provide immense more support and make working on the piece easier. 2. Instead of screwing the plexi legs on create a mortise in the end grain and insert the leg as a tenon. Keep up the great work!

[@adrianbunge]

Could have also used biscuit joints

[@mattyallwood]

That Segway to the advertisement was genius!!!!!

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

It's segue

[@Icer73]

If your wanting to find out more on how to do the segments. I suggest watching or even trying to get ahold of a fellow KZbin called “Frank makes”. He does quite a few projects with segmented pieces. For example he made the Death Star, an eye with iris. Just to mention some. Hopefully that helps out a little bit for future projects

[@kernelpickle]

The acrylic doesn’t look bad, but those screw joints on the inside sure do. That stuff is easy enough to carve up and shape any way you like, and he could’ve just did a mortise on the underside of the of the wooden (leg?) base and hidden it a little better that way. I also think it would be cool to do something like this with a very small base like that, but hide something very heavy inside to weigh it down. Then transition to lighter/less dense wood further up the table until you reach the top. Then for the top, make everything as thin as you can get it, but keep a lip on it as best you can so it still looks deceptively chonky. Then you can use clear poly or acrylic for a thin base that looks invisible. Like a wine glass basically.

[@EdHadder]

John Malecki Is Awesome 😎

[@allenpeachy3987]

Not trying to be critical, but wondering if there would be a way to attach the acrylic feet without screws. Some kind of tenon end on the acrylic, up into the bottom of the SQUIRRELLY Spiral 🤷🏾‍♂️ ? Nice build.

[@John_Malecki]

After using the screws I couldn’t agree more haha

[@BWITZ0]

he could try running some acrylic dowels through the wood to support it

[@warrenmunn3224]

Building the shape around a disposable container/barrel and doing the external carving while the barrel is inside, then just cut/destroy the barrel to extract it.

[@josephbelcher6814]

Love the table. If you make another one, I think ambrosia maple would look really good.

[@John_Malecki]

It would!

[@ChrisPage68]

I dated her in school.

[@mitziseyfferdt3866]

Tensegrity rocking chair 🤩⭐️

[@abbypeterson274]

An outdoor seating table that has swings as seats and a dynamic looking table that is actually static would be a cool project.

[@colinpeake6612]

Nice build guys. I think the lumber you're using is ash.

[@theimpulse77]

I bet a foam cylinder could've been used to support that spiral enough to rough out that line with the jig saw. Not sure if you could find that foam cylinder, but a sheet, cut and turned would do it.

[@spencerklaus6648]

Make a video on Purple Heart and the best techniques for working with it, planing/sanding/sealing etc!

[@SpencleyDesignCo]

Awesome job on this one!

[@bg2608ret]

Guys I really enjoy your videos, some better than others, but there all good.👍🏻

[@anthonyraye5831]

I think you should make a place we’re to store your golf clubs in the winter... and make kick ass like you always do...they have some on the market by they are Junk and don’t hold all the stuff like shoes umbrellas extra clubs shag bags... you’d crush that

[@compunurse]

The groove around the top that accepts the inset or insert is called a rabbit unless you were in England or Australia or it’s called a rebate

[@tknoerle1451]

Love your sawtable squirrel! 😎👍

[@MCsCreations]

Beautiful work, John! Nicely done! 😃 The only different thing I would do is to use dowels for every part, from the beginning! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@gospoda2]

A center steel post to a base would have been sweet as well. Then just have that carved wood floating just above.

[@paedahe4975]

Rebar bored through the middle of the wood section, hidden by a invisible spiral joint.

[@jordanchambers1265]

I was hoping for a better looking support. Maybe like plywood or what not secured to your leg through a rug or something that would keep you secret. Not sure what securing method I would trust my coffee cup to, but nice work

[@nolanstevenson3510]

Rabbit maybe for inserting the top. You would have been good just saying a recess

[@levibaker4587]

That's what I was thinking

[@John_Malecki]

Yea that hit me after thinking hahah good call

[@benengel1687]

Rabbet lol

[@teejay9373]

Thumbs up for golden doodles! 👍🏻

[@b3ardedbarbarian]

11:45...a rabbet maybe? Another squirrely yet badass table!

[@chrisbouchard4780]

Time for a new shop chef episode. And many more

[@Handy_Space]

great job)

[@BlackShuck95]

Would have been cool to have a long acrylic rod going into the bottom of the top down to an acrylic bottom in my opinion, would have been nicer that the little rectangles of acrylic. Do like the setting it alight thing tho

[@23demolitionderbyman]

rabbit for the top is what you ment I believe sir Squirrely Squad ASSEMBLE!!!!

[@matthewwilliams5253]

Hey from Australia champ !

[@John_Malecki]

Hey from America bud

[@bubba19816280]

Mortise, No a Squirrelybob. Love your work

[@Jubjub9000]

Just when i'm thinking, i bet this guy would be fun to work with, he says "lets chuck some PanterA on and lets rip"! freakin legend.

[@elc7795]

Looks awesome! I wonder if using a sonotube in the middle for the initial glue up would make it easier to glue and clamp?

[@MaxRide1]

ideas: floating dining table (big 6 or 8 seater) - really push the limits of the floating mechanism a "floating" light/lamp of some sort (either on the ground or .... even better, -hanging- floating from the ceiling!) floating bench (like a park bench) finally... a floating staircase (though that might be a bit... ambitious)

[@BulletWulf]

Please recreate your first tensegrity piece, but updated. It'd be a nice little throwback. Using stronger cable, and off-setting the triangles by 60 degrees. Have the outside wires either angled outwards from the centre beams of the base towards the vertices of the top panel, or from the vertices of the bottom panel towards the vertices of the top panel (so each of the 3 vertex has 2 cables leading to it)

[@jamiekrautkremer7936]

Ultimate floating furniture… the floating sofa! Float with friends

[@daveyio87]

I think if you were to do this again, maybe use a tenon for every piece as you glue it up? It sounds like a pain and time consuming but would it make it stronger?

[@John_Malecki]

Yea that wouldnt allow me to be able to carve as much as i would like. Edge to edge glue up is plenty strong. Clamping this was rough

[@daveyio87]

@@John_Malecki i didn't think of that. I'm getting into wood working, I'm a Master Automotive tech so this is a new animal but fun!

[@uniqko]

good

[@himynameisjeff]

This would have been just as cool if you put a post in the middle with some kind of base, and more stable. Either way, super cool. Definitely gives me some ideas

[@adicken1911]

Can you do a comparison on your old bosch miter saw vs the makita you have now?

[@AlexanderElse]

Did you think about joining the acrylic to the table using tenons? Would it work for this project? I think it'd look good to have the acrylic disappear into the wood rather than be offset and attached with screws.

[@John_Malecki]

I agree Alexander. My original plan was to mount them to the top, so i didnt think of morticing them in, but if i did it again i wouldve slotted the swirl somewhere for both.

[@AlexanderElse]

@@John_Malecki I should've read the comments. Someone else already asked the same thing. Love your work.

[@angrymater13la]

I would love to see that style doing in a torched finish

[@linkpalmer]

What about a winter outdoor bench with built in seat warmers/space heater, sponsored by pit boss?

[@BxTekNurd]

My tips would be, Use dowels on each piece and if you were to use the acrylic, id make them the entire height of the table.

[@ItsAlex-aj]

Hey, newbie woodworker here, i just got one question.. how did you account for wood movement for the top? As far as i read online, they say you should never attach a top so snug.. anyway another GREAT creation from you!! You inspire me so much!

[@matthewchristensen9384]

You guys should make a pool table

[@EdHadder]

I Love These Videos 🐉💖🐉🖤

[@ModernBuilds]

Third break had me laughing!! Killed it 🔥🔥

[@gioazzarello1333]

Yoooooooo you need to get Matt outlaw (731 woodworks) to the ranch!

[@MrAustinBaxter]

Could you do something similar but inset a steel rod thru the middle by either drilling thru the wood and sliding it over like beads or makeing to curved peices of wood with slots in side to sandwich over the metal?

[@TOTHEPOINT82]

I feel like"Woodworking Terminology Groove" is some type of T shirt opportunity.

[@Maninawig]

"Sometime it sucks to be awesome" will be carved on your tombstone.

[@jmyyer]

Love the squirrel push block !

[@mikescombatgames]

I’m still interested to see a tension floating dining room table. 👍😬

[@alexanderkessels5254]

Could you build it around a large cardboard tube for initial stability so that when you clamp it there is an opposing force other than the small face of touching pieces ?

[@Andrewlang90]

In machinist terminology, that would just be a counter bore. I know Yinz wood guys have cooler terms, but counter bore is all I gots

[@gaffyh1745]

I think an acrylic or resin cylinder down the middle would look cooler, Or better yet like a resin DNA double helix in the middle.

[@leelatt]

Using a cement form tube in the center might have provided support while gluing and shaping up. Then remove after the work is done?

[@loopinnerthe]

You like floating things. You love to make clever floating illusions. Soooo.... you need to make some kind of sinking illusion thing. Perhaps a really solid looking table but the legs are hollow and filled with springs and when you put stuff on it it just concertinas down to the floor...

[@thompsonfamilyhuntingadven4036]

Rebate the word or “some kind of woodworking terminology” yinz was looking for was a rebate. P.S my 11yr old said “that’s cool, but weird. And he’s cool and funny, but he’s weird too”.

[@exotictones1054]

That's cool as hell john.

[@shoutdowncreative2705]

hows about making a goblin/fairy daybed for your kiddo? i know they are still very young, but still might be fun to do. or maybe a play castle with hinges so it closes to store all of the associated toys inside when not in use. something like that perhaps? or maybe partner with some kitchen knife company and as a follow up to last year's "cutting board for the masses" theme, u could make blade blocks to hold the kitchen knives and give those away. or some matching deck furniture for u and sam? or maybe an oversize checkers set (board and checkers) out of 2 different species of wood with a nice epoxy inlay of course. (i'd say a chess set, but that might take too long for 1 video)

[@flappoid]

The finished piece pretty much equals in aesthetics that of the background music.

[@mkcrew225]

Impossible chair. Missing 2 legs. Might do a steel substructure with a wood cladding over it so it looks like wood. Could make it similar to how the "floating" street performers do theirs.

[@IllGetMyTools]

Good work my Man. Your are definitely the flooring table afficianado!!

[@zielsryan]

Floating office chair?? For the boss man himself?

[@007naumankhan]

I think to avoid the breaking try to use dowel or biscuits or something similar to keep them together.

[@IdovShai]

Amazing! I like your design style

[@austinrogers8058]

I could listen to the riffs you use in your videos on shuffle.

[@feltron]

Love the gi Joe esque shirt. Also when he said policy genius I thought he said Paul is a genius. I thought who's Paul?

[@John_Malecki]

Ya who the hell is paul

[@kindalost1]

🔥🔥Floating lamp

[@seanmullenix7448]

I might try this

[@RunarMagnussen]

How about a floating work bench!

[@Rockhopper1]

cardboard concrete former covered in saran wrap then build your wood over that as a buck. Use diagonal strips of wood (yes its a head***k ) with a dowel or rabbet. On the area on the floor I would do a coil which underneaths is a gym weight screwed to the bottom . However there is another trick you can use and that is to run a thin guage steel cable through the blocks with a tensioner on the top not too much so it implodes but enough to lock the blocks together if you use a stepped keyway on each block, similar to a dovetail. but hey you are innovating kudos to you and the guys.

[@marian20012]

I didn't know Will Sasso has woodworking channel.

[@TheGeekiestGuy]

It's dope to see John showing that creativity. I dig all the projects but this wacky stuff is nice. Stay safe out there, boys. I'm gonna watch some of the older tutorials as I try and fix the hack job some numbnut "handyman" did to my house. 🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@williamburton757]

I feel like the most stable way to do it, if you want to do full wood, would be to construct it with horizontal layers rather than vertical - and the best way I can think to do that is plywood. So maybe take a sheet of 1/4 or 1/2 inch, create a template for a maybe 2 inch thick arch of whatever length the math says works for your shape.... trace and cut them out cookie-cutter style from the ply sheet, and glue them together in the same step fashion, but shifted horizontally to the side with each piece added.... Then, instead of like 2 inches by 4 inches for surface area being glued between each piece of wood, you'd have like 2 inches by 10 or 12 inches, which should give you about 3 times the strength between layers. Would also make it a lot easier for you to use clamps while the glue is setting so you'd get a much stronger bond.

[@buzzboy1000]

Very nice! I love your squirrel wood pusher.

[@codynelson5302]

Hey John! You should make a hidden compartment drawer!

[@twistedgamer6]

I was surprised you didn't domino it together before gluing it up once I realized how it was going together.

[@wonderwood1967]

No criticisms. this would be difficult under the best of circumstances. If I build one, I think I'll glue up an entire cylinder and just carve out the portion I don't want. I know, its a waste of wood but I have more wood than time.

[@Ghostpepper92]

You should make a floating dragon chair or table

[@AB_in_CO]

You guys are crazy cool. Took another risk and it paid off because it is outside the box and awesome. Question, what is the reason to burn the acrylic?

[@watermelonbleach]

Nobody answered you in a year? I believe its to make the sides clear instead of frosted.

[@farmgrowncountrystrong]

First thing I thought: This guy really likes his floating furniture. First thing he said: People say I have a weird obsession with floating furniture 🤣

[@John_Malecki]

It’s a fun way to get creative and think outside the box.

[@farmgrowncountrystrong]

@@John_Malecki I agree!

[@firemanj35]

What about a couple of epoxied metal rods?

[@cashkruz319]

Would using dominoes to connect all the pieces have been necessary for a stronger structure? Would that be overkill? I was wondering that as you were building, then you added the download the arm. I'm a total novice with wood working, so just curious. Either way, I second your obsession with the floating furniture and can't wait for more.

[@Lori_M]

I was also thinking dominoes. Glad I wasn't the only one!

[@midnightsun2010]

3x3 Custom Tamar made a 3way bridle joint in a video not too long ago. You should try to make one and then incase it in the center of clear epoxy for a side table of some sort. Metal legs would look cool too :)