1000 Feet of Denim and 20 Gallons of Epoxy

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The Jable turned out great! The "Cant you just buy denim?" killed me lmao

I'm an old (87) lady that loves to watch you create! I love the look of denim for the table. It gave me the idea of making denim coasters. I got too old to sell my resin items at craft shows, so I give it all away. I think you are a great artist!

This belongs in the museum of modern art in New York. What a creative medium. Nick Schade got one of his kayaks in there. I think this is on the same level. Really inspirational stuff. Impressive. Way to stick with it! I know every Craftsman watching that video collectively groaned whenever they saw what happened to you with the runoff. Congrats. So inspired!

...that's a REALLY beautiful table!...you two should team up on many more projects like this...

I am blown away. WOW. The denim looks amazing and really pops, and the leather and brass look simple yet very elegant while keeping with the theme. I have not been this impressed by a piece of furniture since the baseball glove chair of the 90s lol. Very very well done by both of you. I'm curious what a desk like this would even cost. Four or five figures?

Wow! That looks insanely well made. I love, how you can still see the fibres of the denim, but at the same time it doesnt look "real". So weird, yet so awesome. And the leather-legs fit perfectly!

You could start a whole channel just for scraping epoxy off stuff, so satisfying to watch 😄

How impressive! I truly admired your dedication to this project.
As for jeans, I don't really have a preferred brand, I'm just happy when I find a pair that fits.

Don’t have a favorite brand denim but my hubby likes Wrangler. This table is so cool. To take a medium that gets softer and more comfortable with wear and turn it into something completely opposite… just brilliant. The leather legs are the bomb too! Loved watching you create and appreciate that you’re not all about perfection but the process of creating. 😎

Without a doubt .... that is the coolest thing I've ever seen done with denim. The leather wrapped legs were about as perfect of an accent that one could ask for .... like a leather belt worn with jeans! 👍🏻✌🏻

Absolutely love this. You could start a whole new line of furniture. I watched the entire thing but I don't know what my favorite denim is. It usually depends on the price of the clothing!

I love it and the legs are so beautifully stitched honestly they are a work of art!

I love the end result!

That table is incredible! I would've never thought if using denim to make a table. Keep doing what you're doing! Love your channel!

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I have watched most of you videos and this is one of my favorites. This was a hell of a commitment to the craft! Absolutely amazing!

Favorite brand: old school Wrangler. I like my denim thick. That desk was absolutely beautiful. You both did your craft proud. I can't believe the difference the nano coat made too.

Wow, that turned out really beautiful. I was skeptical that denim would look that great at the end but that's absolutely gorgeous.

This was so cool and hilarious to watch at the same time. You guys got me in stitches almost. That being said big guts here for these kind of unique projects and I'm definitely not judging anyone. I feel I would do so much worse with stuff like this. Especially having 0 experience with epoxy. I like how dedicated you are to your projects. Keep them coming. It fuels my creativity :)

"Picasso was a horrible woodworker." 😂😂😂 Fantastic work as always. Love the denim and brass look.

Dude, that is a beautiful table! I never knew denim could be used like that. Holy crap. I need to watch your channel more. Keep up the fantastic work. And of course, keep being a great human being!

Cam, I am yet blowed away by your unending talent. You are a true artist. Awesome table as always.

The table is nice but holy hell I was blown away by the craftsmanship on the leather covered legs. Absolutely sublime.

Love your channel and of course your amazing woodworking skills. Your funny and very detailed explanations are appreciated.

Wrangler works for me. Great floor sealing at the same time! I like that you gave this table to the right person, Shaheen Seiffert. Another craftsman of equal skills. Keep it up with these new projects that show a uniqueness that is this channel's draw!

This is just AWESOME! What a fabulous table (and what a superb craftsman you are) 🥰

This is so cool! Love the look of the denim and leather wrapped legs.
I’ve just barely begun my resin exploration, but love this and your channel!

I hardly wear denim in my day to day but I would say this table looks amazing and inspiring. Thank you for you're hard work and the video. I really appreciate it.

I don't have a favorite brand of denim but this is truly a work of art. You do amazing, fabulous work.

My suggestion for future denim tables would be to make an MDF core. It doesn't shrink much and would save you SO MUCH cost and time. Just finish the outer 1/4" or so with Denim.
Now for the possitive this is BEAUTIFUL. I want to do something similar

He deserved that table 100%. Talk about a humble man. I don't know if I like the idea of using denim, or his leather wrapping skills more! Kudos to both of you for making an amazing desk!

This is an absolutely stunning table, and a perfect idea. Denim and leather is the theme for our ranch style decor. I love it!!!!

Levi’s. There is so much creativity in this project. And every aspect of it was taken to an unbelievable level. Well done! The leather wrap on the legs look incredible. Love it.

Denble came out fire to be honest never seen anything like it an can see this being a future design in shops not gonna lie.
Well done mate. Love from Australia 😊

That desk is gorgeous! Love that denim look. Gotta roll with American Fighter or Salvage as a personal denim choice but would definitely rock that desk. The brown legs set it off too!

looking so cool! color combo and texture looks on point!

Honestly, this kind of falls into the art category. It's super unique, and kinda wacky, but also reserved and beautiful. This is the kind of stuff that's puts you in future art history and design classes dude. Well done.

Loved the final product. Denim is a timeless textile

Great job on the desk. Love the colors!

I am late to the party with this comment. Just seeing this video and your channel for first time. The contrast yet marriage the table seems to display is gorgeous. It is a representation of what an upper half human and lower half table wearing jeans would look like. So creative and very entertaining. Also nice of you to do gift the table to the fellow craftsman.

I love this. Partway through I was worried that it was going to come out too perfect and you would basically end up with blue formica. But it has that variation of colour and the creases, you can immediately tell what it is. Really cool.

I love this it’s beautiful I preferred the first one before top layer was put on I think they would have both been stunning

The camera guy is the real mvp. "Can't you just buy denim?" 😂 just imagine the cost had you done this in Levi's.

This is by far the coolest table I have ever seen. I really hope you do more with denim because I need to see more. Also, my favorite brand of denim is anything under $20

I do not have a favorite denim but this table turned out beautiful! Love seeing your work, it’s very inspiring and I would have never thought to build out of denim, that is a very unique material choice.

SUGGESTION: for quality finish with least work and least mess you cant go without custom welded wacum chamber. Get some square profiles and weld a wide flat box to be big enough to hold the denim and epoxy wood frame, but small enough to reach vacuum quicker (all that frame can be covered with glued plexi glass for visibility or welded metal sheets for strength). NOTE: the bottom and top planes will flex way more than you think at good vacuum, so you have to overkill reinforce them and maybe make box a bit higher to allow for it, or use less vacuum(if it worked with squeegee, with low vacuum will be 10 times better anyway) . This way, all you have to do is to align the dry denim, and pour many buckets of epoxy on it, before closing the top lid and depresurising few times. Top layer of denim should be ironed, or maybe left with some non sticky panel on it, so it stays flat while soaking epoxy into itself and curing, if there is a chance of wrincles sticking out above cured epoxy level.

I don't know any denim brands, but this turned out really cool. I love the contrast of the denim with the legs.

Honestly appreciate how genuine you are about feeling like you’ve messed up. As someone just starting out in woodworking it often feels like everyone on Clip-Share is making masterpieces and you’re the only one making mistakes. Thank you

Respect to you! From humble beginnings of denim you found new beauty 🏆 You mastered it! 🏆

Absolutely beautiful. Did not expect the final product to look so good.

Diesel ! Incredible end result !!! Always blown away by your meticulous attention to detail and wow this table along with the legs is STUNNING!!!

I actually love the freshly sanded look of the table after you laminated the top layer and cut it to size. I wanna rub my hands all over it, it looks like an amazing texture

Wow! I've used old carhartts to make knife handles in this manner and it is a pain in the keister. Props to you for going full send on this table! Using a variety of similar shades of browns yields a subtly beautiful effect that would translate well to furniture.

Awesome project! Since you asked for suggestions-as an aerospace engineer, my mind jumps to vacuum infusion. It’s a pretty common technique in aircraft manufacturing, and one of the big benefits is you can completely avoid the mess of epoxy.
You would basically put the whole denim stack in a sealed bag with some “flow media” as the top layer. Then you pull vacuum on the bag on one side and allow your epoxy to flow in through the other side. Once it’s fully infused, you let it cure under vacuum. Then you can peel the bag off it and ideally you have a perfect denim layup with no mess. Hope this helps!

Man, I dig watching your normal tables, but I think you just took things to a whole new level. It would be interesting to see what other materials you could make into micarta and put in a piece. Keep up the great work! 🤘🏻

Im a subscriber to your channel and i have to say i dont belive i have seen a bad video of yours yet! The denim table i found was amazing! Keep up the great work!

Levi‘s! Watched to the end and just came by to say how nice of a gesture to give Shaheen the table. Also love his dedication to the arts and crafts. Not even wanting any shoutouts or any recommendations to his work… absolute legend and what a helpful one. We need more ppl like this. Thank you for this bud!

This table turned out so good!!!!!! I love it. I would love to see black denim or even a tan or gray color denim if they make it!

The table is just beautiful. Love your work. ❤

In my humble opinion this is your best piece yet. The whole premise of it, the journey, the heartbreak, turning the corner and then giving it to Shaneen... Awesome!!!

I can never go wrong with a bootcut and high waist Levis. Incredible process and beautiful desk in the end 🤩

Levi Strauss ... love your work man I make fractal burned tables and different wood pieces and love epoxy so your channel is definitely gonna be one of my top ones I watch thanks for making great content keep up the good work !!!

That denim desk is so cool. Very high-end but I really liked the way it looked before you put that final sheet of denim on the. Maybe someday you can revisit that idea.

I absolutely love the work you do and this denim table is amazing

Now I’m wondering what a denim and wood layered table would look like

That turned out so fabulous!!! I Loved it!!

Your determination and hard work serve as an inspiration.

Levi’s are my favorite, but wow this was an amazing project to watch. The table looks so good

At first i wasn't keen on the colors design, but the end resuilt that desk/table looks incredible, I never imagined denim could look that good. I'm jealous, i wish i owned that table, great work

Gorgeous! The brass is the perfect complement to the denim. Love the reaction to the gift. (Levi's)

LEVIS... I am absolutely speechless on so many fronts. Firstly, you tried something totally new and really struggled with it, but eventually created a masterpiece. Secondly you collaborated with an absolute artist (perfectionist) not unlike like yourself. Thirdly, you rewarded him with the gift of the work of art that you both created together.
I am embarrassed that all I can do to support you is subscribing to your channel and commenting on every video of yours that I see. You are a craftsman, a gentleman and a great human being. I salute you.

Wow! This is the first video of your art work and channel that I recently came across! You do amazing work!

That is so beautiful and one of a kind. Nice work!

Man, that table looks so freaking good. That's amazing.
Very glad you gave the table to him, seems like such a genuine nice dude.
Excellent video !!

OMG! I don't know why it did but I'm so glad this came up in my suggested videos. At the beginning, I was confused why you didn't just cover a slab of wood with 1 layer of denim but I understood why when I saw the finished product... it's beautiful! This would look great as kitchen countertops too. I don't have a favorite denim but I did watch until the end. 😃

I've always liked the stone washed denim look myself. This table turned out perfect. 👍🏼

Those brass fittings on the top of the desk are just perfect. They look like buttons on a pair of jeans and tie the whole theme together. Great result.

I love “Lucky” jeans. I’d love to see a piece where you do patchwork and can see the stitching on the top layer. Something almost quilt like. Regardless, well played. One of favorite pieces of yours, and although I’m not a woodworker, I am a visual artist and have seen the majority of your pieces.

I watched it all. That's a loooot of hours put into this table! The layers of denim looks cool

Super impressive and an amazing finish! I've recently started wearing Tecovas jeans as they feel amazing and look great with their boots.

What you made is just so mesmerisingly beautiful 😍… I wish it was something money could buy!!

In answer to your question at the end of the project - black denim is my go to for denim but only because I wore it to work where blue jeans were not allowed. Blue will always be my favorite and definitely for furniture. This table, WOW gorgeous. I kept wanting to skip to the end to see the finished project but I restrained myself and was glad I did. The process and your thoughts as you worked were mesmerizing. One thought. Maybe you find a place that sells silicone sheets. You would need an extra-extra large piece to put between the resin and laminate but you would never have to worry about it sticking. It would make your job so much easier when you get to that stage.

As a leather worker and lover of denim and brass, this is my favorite project you’ve done. Amazing job!

All the love and hard work paid out. It is so immensely beautiful. Impressive.

Shaheen is awesome and an incredible craftsman. The table is beyond amazing.

Nice work, this came out better than I imagined. To answer your end question I usually go for Dickies denim. Seems to last longer than most.

I wish I was as skilled as you at literally anything in my life. Dude does something he’s never done before and knocks it out of the park.

I love the old Levi’s 501 denim but your denim desk is way more beautiful!! Thx for continuing to blow us away with your creativity!!

This is very similar to fiberglass work! I think you’d have a lot of success with vacuum bags for the clamp up. That would also be a simple way to start making non-flat forms/molds to layup curved shapes. You could also get some biaxial fiberglass and work that into the layers to get thinner parts that have structural strength. I’m excited to see what you do on this new path, there’s certainly a lot of opportunities!

I love my Levi denim jeans! Fantastic result! Love your work! A bit messy at the beginning but end result is magnificent.

That is such a beautiful desk! It screams high-end just like hyper expensive custom made japanese denim jeans.

I would really love a table like this fr. Looks so good

Blacktail Studio is my favourite brand of denim now. Seriously though, this is one of my all time fav projects you've made. So cool looking.

I don't think you fully realize what you did here. You did something that you didnt know how to do-- you faced real obstacles but you kept in good spirits knowing that it was all part of the process. I don't know you but i trust you. I can tell you are a person who doesn't give up even when things arent perfect even when things get hard and messy. good job man. this is inspirational.

I was relaxing watching you on Roku's Clip-Share channel and I was watching wood working vids. Yours popped up in the feed, like your humor and your honesty and awesome creativity.
Your channel is very chill and helps me with my epilepsy and the anxiety from the side effects of the meds. I'm a new subby now.
Loved the blue jeans table and he deserved it , the gentleman you gifted it too that did the leather work for the legs of the table.
If I was rich, I would order a table from you that seats 4 made with wood and in the middle the epoxy Aurora Borealis which is my favorite night sky.
I new huge fan from California. Love all your work.
Be well be blessed. You're awesome. Keep up the awesome work and Scotty as well he's an awesome support for you and camera man.

Favorite brand of denim? Family worn out jeans! I've made toddler jumpers out of them, and used new car chamois for collars, cuffs, knee and elbow pads. Used pearled snaps for closure. It was SO CUTE. With they let you put photos in comments and I'd share.

You are definitely an epoxy wrangler first class. Really loved the table. Shaheen's work was superb even if I would prefer to see cast iron under the denim.

Absolute Masterpiece! Simply Brilliant! ❤

I'm actually stunned at how incredibly well the texture and finish compliment each other. Wonderful piece.

Duluth Trading Company makes the most comfortable jeans in my opinion.
This was a really cool project. With those leather-wrapped legs too. Y'all made for a wonderful collaboration, and I'd love to see more of these.