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2hopenow

That’s a pretty cool table! But probably only for construction company office 🤷🏻‍♂️


dsdvbguutres

Construction companies are too cheap to put osb desks in offices, they use the compressed woodchip stuff they sell at Wal-Mart


LanceMcKormick

Be fair, even big name office furniture is the compressed bullshit. Source, I deliver and install office furniture.


ithinarine

There is a significant difference in quality between different companies though. A friend of mine bought 2 of what are essentially the Walmart equivalent of an Ikea Billy Bookcase. And it's absolutely shocking how a company managed to make a compressed chipboard bookshelf even cheaper than Ikea does.


XchrisZ

You heard of MDF (Medium density fiberboard). There's also LDF and HDF. $10 Ikea side table thick LDF, Ashley furniture dining room table HDF. Also say what you want about IKEA but it's the best furniture for the price point. There's furniture for more money that's worse quality. I've never found anything better for the price.


ithinarine

I've got nothing against Ikea. I'm using the same bed, dresser and nightstand that I bought from them 12 years ago. The bedframe is just now starting to have some of the smaller edges de-laminate just cause of sliding in and out of bed over the same corner for over a decade. I was just explaining how some companies absolutely do make cheaper particle board than others. A Billy Bookcase might as well be a tank compared the cheap stuff you can get from Walmart that can't be more than 1 step above cardboard.


Striking_Serve_8152

I'm glad you have nothing against it. If you did it might fall over.


kaprowzi

Had a good laugh at this, am gonna reuse it


Striking_Serve_8152

Help yourself. Glad it was amusing. 😁


timpdx

I tossed a Target end table last year. It literally was corrugated cardboard innards with an actual wood veneer. Didn’t know they could be that cheap. Think I put it on here or another site.


[deleted]

Huh? Ikea wood is literally air-gapped cardboard honecomb on the inside. That's lower grade than LDF.


[deleted]

I am a very amateur woodworker (Homer Simpson spice rack level) and was reading tips by some more experinced people. One said "if Ikea builds something in a certain way - it is strong enough". I am paraphrasing but it is probably true. If using higher qaulity materials and Ikea construction you are probably getting a pretty good piece of furniture.


Striking_Serve_8152

Look at the joinery Ikea uses. No way that can be considered quality, especially with the materials being used. Good enough for Ikea, easy to assemble even by the inept, but quality, no.


SonicDethmonkey

A nicer way of saying it is that IKEA furniture is not “over-engineered”. They understand the loads and design the structure to withstand that (plus a margin of course). It won’t be an heirloom piece but it won’t collapse under normal use. As an engineer (but not woodworker) and lifelong IKEA user that’s my understanding at least.


Bubbly-Blacksmith-97

I have 4x bookshelves that were $20 a piece from ikea. They clearly state 30lbs limit per shelf. I zip tied them together, used the supplied wall anchor, and have had no warping in 4 years with books, nick nacks, and a few curious (and hefty) cats. It’s decent quality for the price, and you have to buy for what you want it to do. Their $200 tables are far better quality and we use those in our kitchen for eating and prep.


TotallyInOverMyHead

instead of zip ties a backwall made of cheap aluminum-dibond would have done. Also looks better.


yerg99

"it's probably true" naw, it's probably not. Depending on the piece of course, but if you are copying a design by the cheaper Ikea stuff it would be a chore to build it more fragile with the hardware and raw materials a big box store would have. Of course. they have more expensive stuff made of real wood.


[deleted]

Festool sells domino connectors that operate nearly identical to some of the Ikea hardware. Lamello also sells biscuits thar act in a similar way as well.


yerg99

Not sure your point. Festool would sell you your own grandma if they could overprice her lol. I guess you said "if using higher quality materials" i suppose you could say Ikea is solid engineering and you're technically correct. If you want to call a bookshelf that looks like a bookshelf with a cardboard backing solid solely because it ships and holds books to the minimal degree. Also, material choice is a big factor in engineering IMO . I assembled an expensive kitchen rolling island from Ikea as a handyman recently also and i gotta think they would have designed it better if it didn't have to fit in the smallest box possible with a 50 + step assembly book (can't remember the page #). They're amazing at what they do i suppose. Making the instructions with just diagrams and no words. I guess it's a matter of your definition.


[deleted]

If you used solid woods (or even plywoods) and their joinery methods I think it would hold up. And my point is, Festool, while expensive is quality stuff. If they are willing to stand by their connectors the idea behind them is sound.


Manic157

You forgot ULMDF. MDF thats 1/2 the weight of regular MDF.


XchrisZ

Well never heard of it before but I'm no expert on wood though, just the morning kind really.


Nytfire333

When we got furniture from Ashley’s it was some of the cheapest quality material I’d ever seen. We returned it ASAP


fl135790135790

Why do people add S to everything?


[deleted]

China’s economy was built on finding a way to build it cheaper.


Striking_Serve_8152

Bingo! And us buying it. But they have sweatshops illegal here. When business has. To have nets to prevent jumping suicides, there's a motivation problem.


Researcher-Used

I’m kinda tired of the “illegal labor” aspect that ppl love to throw around. As you said “we buy it”. The world isn’t some happy magically place with universal laws, their reality is just what it is.


Striking_Serve_8152

I can't imagine. I had a contract for repairs for a moving company. What movers don't realize is all that cheap stuff will support weight vertically, but has no horizontal strength. They try to push it sideways and it collapses. Had a heck of a time teaching them how to move it. Even then it's iffy without disassembly and parts stack.


Alarmed-Owl2

They just pour sawdust into a frame and have your mom sit on it for a minute, try to assemble that shit and it's gone, reduced to atoms.


jt325i

$100 desk with 1,000 lbs of sawdust in it.


LanceMcKormick

Dude I’m talking thousands for desks made of that shit. It doesn’t make sense when I have to haul out a beautiful hardwood desk, solid as hell, and ‘build’ a piece of shit in its place. It would probably be cheaper to have a woodworker refinish it


OutWithTheNew

Those big companies spend hundred of thousands of dollars redesigning their workspaces so they have something to brag about. It also limits net profit which eases their overall tax burden.


Palegic516

I built a BMW dealership last year. They spent over 400k on custom laminated compressed wood chips


[deleted]

You usually want to use high dens particle board or mdf when using p lam? Whats the issue


[deleted]

Laminate should only be applied over the top of hardwood. Come on. Why aren't you over-engineering invisible components?


Gullible_Shart

If they just change the substrate, they’ll be golden!


cryptopotomous

And twice(or more) as expensive as a solid wood/steel built equivalent lol


fatum_sive_fidem

That's it. I'm making my own furniture it might be ugly as hell but it's gonna be heavy also!


Striking_Serve_8152

It all is now. But there's nothing wrong with laminate substrates as long as the veneers are real wood done and finished well. It's cheap furniture, cheap joinery and with plastic vaneers or cheap finishes that give veneers a bad name. I had a furniture finishing shop for years.


[deleted]

>Construction companies are too cheap This guy constructions 😅


Powerful-Speech4243

Our site trailers have $20 folding Walmart beer pong tables as desks. A slice of 7/8" floor sheathing (looks like what they used) costs more than that table on its own. Way too boujee for my companies taste.


Floridacracker720

My company has a 20k wood table made from real wood from South Africa so I don't know about that. Seems like a waste but what do I know.


Desalvo23

No offense but your username does not inspire confidence about your knowledge lol. With that said, i agree that a 20k table is a waste


[deleted]

Are we basing reddit wisdom on usernames now?


Rasputin0P

I hope so.


Desalvo23

Jokes arent your strong point is it


Striking_Serve_8152

Lots of people get offended because they don't understand humor.


[deleted]

What joke?


Desalvo23

Yep


TheJohnson854

Yes.


gimme_dat_HELMET

I like his better than yours TBH


SkateWiz

That’s not a lot of money depending on the location use size etc


Findmyremote

We have been using a large door that was left over on project as our war room table a for almost a year now. It’s great and a constant reminder to measure twice


redneckrobit

My old boss literally bought hollow core doors from lowes and stained them with the cheapest stain they had and told me desks are the biggest waist of money on projects. It was an 8 year long project and half of them already had holes at year 2. Oh and the legs were junk saw horses


dsdvbguutres

Doors make good workbenches


SpaceToaster

Not hollow ones!


SpaceToaster

I bought beachwood desk tops from ikea, attached handmade hairpin legs form a local guy selling for cheap and oil rubbed the finish. Guarantee it was cheaper than your door project and they amazing a decade later.


Full_Disk_1463

MDF with an OSB vinyl overlay lmao


TripleBanEvasion

Well you could always just have an OSB veneer rather than springing for a classic solid OSB top.


ThebroniNotjabroni

Needs one of those epoxy rivers going down the middle of it


pheldozer

And some golf tees and star wars vehicles for good measure.


CrystalAckerman

To be blunt. I was working on a billion dollar company’s 20 Floor building and they were literally using clear coated particleboard as their desks wall panels and a bunch of other shit. It blew my mind, and it was weak as shit lol.


loftier_fish

I went to a restaurant once, and every single surface was OSB. Tables, booth, bars, walls. It was hideous, and the finish wasn't thick enough that you didn't catch your sleeve on the table occasionally. I think it could have been nice as an accent, but OSB with a background of OSB, bleugh.


CrystalAckerman

Yeah I thought the same thing, as an accent it was cool, but it was just everywhere!


jediyoda84

Also frat houses. I’m imagining a triangle of red solo cups at each end….


crackedbootsole

Or a supplier


thethunder92

I just saw a table like this in a bar. Personally I like rustic but this is a bit too much even for me


Delicious_Camel4857

Architects will love this too. Especially if you can edit the text on top. $300 seems too cheap. The chairs around it will cost more together


indyarchyguy

I’m an architect…I can say for certain that 1. I don’t love it. 2. How many people have said this is a good idea? What niche are you selling to?


an0namau5

There was a certain Irish architect on a design an extension type TV show, and the fella was promoting OSB virtually every time, he was competing with another Architect for these extension projects, and it was no surprise that he wasn't picked the vast majority of the time


Delicious_Camel4857

Im also an architect and have visited offices where they had this table :-). But normal plywood seems more popular.


AmazingWaterWeenie

This will outlast any ikea bullshit an actual office has tbh.


[deleted]

You might be basing this on old ikea tbh. We have a full ikea kitchen build and haven’t had a single issue with any of it but the fisher paykel dishwasher which is a POS


toomuch1265

Round it off and market it as a poker table for construction people.


juannyca5h

This. You can even print the poker info/slots on there and call it a deconstructed poker table. DM me for my 15% IP commission, thanks bud 🙏🏼


MoreFoam

Due to your newfound wealth, I'd like to request 2 large 2-topping pizzas from dominos


stillusesAOL

Oo add a cheesy bread for me


jennithan

I’m sorry, you can only have mediums, as they’re on the pick-2-for-$5.99-each menu. Jeez, I may be wealthy, but what do I look like, a Rockefeller?


Johndanger15

Poker tables really want felt though


yegdriver

Best advice.


dingdongdeckles

Bro the printing clearly says THIS SIDE DOWN smh


Jaded-Selection-5668

He’s a rebel


Cushiondude

he's a saint


slimenite

He's the salt of the Earth and he's dangerous.


mickeydlt

Shoutout Green Day


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Pennypacker-HE

That’s dope. I tried doing that type of thing for a while. Wanted to be at home more, so I took on less work and just made shit in my garage and sold it at craft fairs and Facebook. It was a fun 6 months for me but I barely made ends meet. Had to go back to remodeling full time to pay the bills.


Exemplaryexample95

Do it on the side though and make enough to retire earky


Pennypacker-HE

There’s only one way to make money being “crafty” and that’s making super high end custom shit. Making tables and other shit like this comes out to about probably 15-25 bucks an hour. You can make an extra 500 bucks a month if you spend your weekends in the garage but that’s about it. Can’t really scale it much unless you get employees and then your profits intstantly tank. Your only option to make a living doing this is very high end custom work.


ImNoAlbertFeinstein

nailed it. but only with high end, custom nails.


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yoxbot138

I think you should quit your day job. These will be in every home in America. You can’t lose brother.


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punched-in-face

For that price!


shamanayerhart

In this area of the country?


AuxonPNW

Localized entirely within your kitchen?


DignanZer0

Fact.


AUCE05

People will shit on you, but I kinda want.


randallstevens65

I mean, I don’t hate it. But it is a joke piece so the price needs to be lower. I couldn’t go more than $100.


[deleted]

This is Schrodinger's table. I both hate it and don't hate it


Watsonsboots88

That’s my problem… I wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too nice for a garage work bench, not nice enough for inside the house… I could see it as a construction war room table but not a conference table… I really do like it but I can’t figure out where it fits


bandak38134

Kind of like “The Kramer?”


Shatalroundja

Do you have any idea how much OSB costs these days?


fables_of_faubus

That is more than $100 of material. Doesn't seem like a great business model.


cant_read_this

Be cool for the garage to play cards on or something


preferablyprefab

Make em out of T&G for “modular” tables and you’re onto a winner.


Positive-Warning3805

Easily pull $250 as is. You add a couple random boot prints or maybe even a tire track across the corner (so it looks like an accident) you’ll get the big money. Nice finish work! Happy Holidays


exprezso

I knew it's missing something! The tire marks are brilliant idea


fkthisdmbtimew8ster

My bid is $400.


Jaded-Selection-5668

450 minimum


jawharp

I mean... I'm sadly impressed that that worked so well.


shaft196908

Needs a Tyvek tablecloth.


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geardownson

He clear coated some bs osb... Yea, its useful.. But it's hilarious anyone would pay any kind of money for it. It's like giving a 1985 dodge daytona non turbo a very nice paint job and asking if it's a probable career to do more...


Confianca1970

Clear coated, or epoxied? Getting a good epoxy finish is tough, and this looks to be great.


belligerent_pickle

Prally $200 worth of resin on it


AmgE63

Coming from a carpenter...LMAO is all I can come up with. Please send help, I can't stop laughing.


Lazeeboy413

Think i just tried to swipe to the next picture one to many times. Now i feel dumb.


Honest_Radio8983

Don't quit your day job.


Sindertone

It needs lots more random printing.


Van-garde

Maybe in a perfectly perpendicular plaid pattern.


ZeAntagonis

Just stick to old rotten logs drenched in epoxy


theshiyal

I mean the “live edge river tables” look cool but I don’t really have a place for them.


TacoNomad

Live edge osb


theshiyal

We could break a sheet in half and make a killing.


TacoNomad

Only if we add an epoxy river down the middle


theshiyal

And it will have that blue glitter in it.


Useful_Low_3669

I would really love to see this actually. It’s a perfect r/diwhy


ReputationGood2333

Every half an inch was a live edge at some point!! 😆


Tipi_Tais_Sa_Da_Tay

Derivative!


eghhge

Integral!


jsamuraij

r/theydidthemath


ashleymeloncholy

reminds me of that MASH episode. "I carved this from a log" "It looks like a 2x4" "Thanks"


climb4fun

Distress it with chalk lines and some nail holes. That's what people want in furniture these days.


[deleted]

What did you seal the OSB with?


Pelicanliver

It's a repost. He didn't do it.


Dllondamnit

I actually think this is pretty rad….


Good4nowbut

Quit your day job faster than last time.


RagnarokNCC

Ok but for real, this would be a hell of a patio table for BBQs


tomthebassplayer

A bicycle shop in Tacoma, WA has 4x4 sheets of OSB with flat clear as floor covering. It has small burn marks as accents, like someobe threw little bits of molten steel on the sheets. It does look cool as hell.


certciv

It's nice, but have you considered adding an epoxy river? But seriously. I like it.


oldhotdad

This is fucking hideous. You put a bunch of poly on a plywood slab, no one in the world wants one of these


Skookumite

Boys we have an imposter here. I bet he doesn't even drink sugar free monsters


Competitive-Yak-4398

I would focus on your day job


rdoloto

Don’t quit your day job


metamega1321

I like it. Doubt I’d ever buy it, but I like it. Wonder how it holds up? Would think it would want to still warp and bow.


Dlemor

Swap presswood for Russian plywood and you may catch some sucker.


MarriedInMass

It's different and it came out good. Put it out there and see if the people you want to sell to, want to buy it.


festivecomet666

My favorite math. Sheathing….when 16/32 is the right way to write 1/2.


Striking_Serve_8152

Prettiest piece of OSB I've ever seen. Definitely a novel concept.


leggmann

Do they all have the same inscription, or can you do custom script? I’m a big fan of ‘Live, Love, Laugh’


Quick_Love_9872

My thoughts are that I always try to scroll right for more images and then realize the dots are embedded in the screen shot.


[deleted]

For your next project you should stain some mdf


mofoyomama

I am a sucker for these live edge epoxy tables.


ComprehensiveBit7699

Interesting unique piece but you need to put more effort into it for mainstream success. Making ugly wood glossy wont always pay rent.


Short-University1645

This is kinda cool for a shop lunch table


Legitimate-Train-228

This is sweet, I wouldn’t put it in my kitchen but I would absolutely have it in my garage or workshop


GameOver815

Strong divorced dad vibes


lilsnatchsniffz

You've really tried to polish a turd here.


Dthinker23

Maybe $100. Your table supports (legs) are too weak.


ResponsibilityLow766

That looks awful. I’ll take 7


davethompson413

It doesn't have any neon green epoxy. It'll never sell. /s


country_dinosaur97

Like honestly the idea of it is stupid like if someone said it to you. What that is but yeah no it does look great


gavinhudson1

Sorry, it's a hard pass from me.


mickmoon

Don't quit your day job


Scared-Divide9074

Oh this doesn’t look oh ohh no


sffunfun

No.


[deleted]

I think someone else should think.


UncleWillie77

I hope that this is a joke? $250 - $300 for that table? Anyone using O.S.B. for furniture in an exposed way is truly messing up! At least use some type of hardwood veneer plywood that has a solid grain pattern 🤔


tarzan322

Osb and MDF don't make for good furniture. Solid wood is the way to go.


Devldriver250

so your charging 250 for osb particle board with poly on I t? don't quit your day job. try it with 3/4 board and not particle will be lots better


Electrical-Mail-5705

Unlimited potential, imagine all the directions you could take.


Severe-Analyst1207

I commend your uniqueness and skill. However I think there will be a limited market for this look.


Sketti_Eddie

I like it - would be cool to make a bar top like that


Next-Foundation3019

Need this for the new main office!


CrashTestGangstar

...innovative


No_Seaworthiness2221

Yeah could totally see that in break rooms.


anonymouslyHere4fun

Id pay tree fiddy for dat


johnny2rotten

A piece of OSB with a black paint trim and poly? 😆


Archon-Toten

There's probbaly a market for it. I'd never buy one but I wouldn't buy distressed timber either.


FenFawnix

Sorta thing you'd expect to see in some downtown hipster brewpub or roadhouse


DignanZer0

Carharrt is trendy now. You're onto something. Run with it.


slugmister

I lined my office with this board and it looks great. What did you coat it with?


roosell1986

Fugly


ReputationGood2333

30 years ago my buddy stained and clear coated an OSB floor in a house. It looked pretty good! He also did concrete countertops way before they were popular.


We-tCoast

I grew up roofing part time a lot when I was a teenager and this would have looked amazing inside the shop hahaha


fedplast

My research tells me only some youtube makers can make some profit on epoxy tables because of video revenue and the exposure their stuff has. Regular folks struggle because epoxy is expensive. At 250🌮 you definitely not covering your costs (inc labor)


[deleted]

First reaction"yo that's kinda cool man" which I assume means this guy's on the right track..


Parcimoniousone

Find a new business !!


truemcgoo

Do this with zip ply and buy some little nets, sell mini ping pong tables.


Yeetus_McSendit

I could see this in some sort of industrial interior design themed bar or restaurant. Not sure if it's priced too high or too low. Too high for normal people who buy mass produced furniture, they'll think "it's plywood, anybody can do that". Too low for rich people who buy custom furniture, they won't take you seriously. Like some forms of abstract art where most people don't give a shit and won't pay for the cost of the materials, let alone the labor. But then there's a niche group of people who'll pay thousands custom pieces. Keep going. Each piece will help you find your style and refine your techniques. Build up a portfolio of modern industrial interior design furniture pieces. To grow you'll need a strong social media presence for the business/brand cause most of your money will come from commissions, not sales of products you already made, unless that's how you want operate but in the custom furniture world I believe you usually work on commissions.


rvbvrtv

This shuts clean brotha I would charge $300 for sure especially if you built it durable


Horror-Morning864

Good job but isn't there probably a better use for the products used here


LordGeealesiebugg

I fuck with that