The Impossible Floating Table !! (Tensegrity Dinner Table)
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I don't know why but I felt like making this so I sold my dining table . Best decision of my life. This is probably one of my coolest looking projects so far !!
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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!
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.
I've seen many floating tables and chairs, but this is my favorite so far. Very pretty!
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.
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.
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.
@@benmarkmendizabal599 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?
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!
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 CZcams. 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 :)
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 !
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...
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. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My mind still can’t process this amazing table. Thanks for sharing
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.
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 watched the whole thing and still sat there going frame by frame on the end result.
You're a wizard, greg.
This is an amazing creation, plan, and execution! Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us! 😃😇🥰
My brain: Ah, the physic laws of tension and force.
Also my brain: THERE'S A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX!!
This table is beautiful! I like it!
Brilliant, Brilliant ! That looks so good.
Many thanks......all the way from London.
Incredible table. It really does look like it is suspended in mid air. Thanks for sharing.
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
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.
This brings tears of joy to my eyes. I love physics !
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
Can you set anything on it? Like would a cup spill? Really cool either way just curious.
Seriously amazed on your hard-working and result was awesome
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.
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
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
Nice work. Table looks great and original. Took me a while staring at the screen to figure it out. Definitely an optical illusion.
Amazing design , love the structure
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 CZcams 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
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
Look ma, a floating table!
Creative & nice, keep up the good work 👍
excellent design and workmanship,
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.
It would be unstable in longitudinal direction of the table, all restraints provided only for one direction movement what about its perpendicular direction ???
Thanks for creating & sharing this video 🕊 such an inventive design.
Have you never heard of thread inserts? Also replace the outside chains with thin high tensile wire and fasten them at an angle that passes behind the arches. This will aid on the visual effect of the top section floating and give lateral stability to the top.
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 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.
This is a very cool table! The physics of it are essentially just the same as a Spreader or Spreading device. The chain in the middle is tightened to force the top & bottom apart. And the two chains on the outsides, Are there to Control/ Preventing the top & bottom from being forced apart. Which creates tension, Resulting in there being a sufficient amount of the nessesary rigidity to support the table.
Having similar force or pressure from a pushing force or a pulling force &/or both. And directing that force against each other or away from each will create that tension. Or having force directed in One direction and then creating a containment or restriction for that force singular force. Will create that same tension that is nessesary to make the table, Stable & Solid enough to use.
Such a cool idea! Awesome job, congratulatuons
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.
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 ...
Outstanding and wonderful work
Loved the idea, excellent stuff
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.
Beautiful work. I wonder how stable the table is. Could it be used as a dinner table? Congratulations!
Absolutely a brilliant piece of design... 👌👍
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!
I'm going to make one.😀 Hope you don't mind. I think it looks amazing!
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.
Great work man, congratulations.
Actually I am curious as to where to find the template. That dorsal strut looks like an excellent place to put a wider/taller "resin waterfall" type piece that pairs with an epoxy "river" or fractal tabletop
It's so creative idea, i like this video too much.
Well technically the shape is original but the true origins are unknown.(ether that or I just dont know)
Ok, creative think, what is the use.... In what way is better than normal table????
Dont do it this way. The wood structure isn’t chosen smart. The curved parts asks for the wood to have a different way of cutting. The grain is cut, while it should follow the curve.
Like and too much .
You understand about two superlatives in one sentance?
Its against the law of nature.
Like off the coast.
Not off of.
I suppose you diddnt invent the language so its ok to f¥#k with convention?
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.
Woah this is awesome!
Great design, would looks awesome with black chain. Like a medieval look.
Cool built. Is there any reason gor using a router over a jigsaw?
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
Awesome build/art.
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 :)
Весь инструмент продемонстрировал! А распилить можно было все одним!
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.
Very clever! Took me a few minutes before my brain explained to my eyes what was I was seeing!
Genuinely brilliant... Kudos
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?
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.
Now make two tensegrity chairs to match. Love it
Incredible work
I'm really interested on how much movement/sway the top of this design has in comparison to other styles. i understand you tightened it so it wouldn't have much sway, but did that remove it entirely? I've seen other videos where the table has quite a bit sway
If you pay close attention to the end where he's gluing in the caps for the holes, you'll see there is quite a bit of sway. Very impractical for any kind sustained use, especially a dining table.
It wasn't tensioned yet ;) when right, its sways very little but it's not perfect. Hands on the table dampens most of that movement though !
While watching I'm trying to find the science in it.
Edit: I found it when I remembered it's construction
Bellissimo lavoro....complimenti!
Amazing idea and great execution.
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!
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
Excellent brother.... Thank lots for sharing....
Brilliant. Absolutely beautiful.
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
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.
It is very nice and an interesting design, there's absolutely nothing "impossible" or even hard to understand how it works just by a quick look.
beautiful piece of work.
If there was magnets strong enought to take the place of the chains that would be perfect...Not that still isn´t
Not much of a dinner table if you can't pick up your silverware
@@LB-vf2hm Silver is not attracted by mangtes.lol
@@LB-vf2hm Silver is not attracted by magnets.lol
Silva modern silverware is usually stainless steel.
@@LB-vf2hm most stainless steel alloys that would be used in flatware are non-magnetic
Is this design flippable? Working right side up and upside down? With a tabletop, of course.
Obviously not. If Greg use the same wood on top. Then it can be reversible.
@@RommelGregorio it would actually be stable upside down. He said with added "tabletop of course" for bottom
Excellent use of quarantine time....
Very good job...congratulations !
At first I thought you had the links welded together to have the chains stand up.
What a strange coincidence. I thought the same as you about welding the links.
Anything sitting on this table in an earthquake would be unaffected.
Gorgeous
Wonderful idea
I wished I could see him put some weight on various parts of the table top just to demonstrate it's practicality
When trying to work out how it works, just take away the outside chains-they just stabilise the top.
no shit Sherlock
@@enriquesuarez7113 I love that expression. :)
Super Super cool.. Sooooo creative!
This is most amazing talent. Great work. Its art
This looks beautiful, but I wish you had filled the holes with dowels, and maybe done brass hardware.
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Great...the real innovative idea.
Congratulation..
Good to fabricate similar designed for chair with support of spring suspension at center point .
Beautiful!