Side table. Spotted gum.

Hi Maurice. I took the liberty of adjusting your photo to make the joinery more visible. I do like exposed joinery.

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  It's great to see the craftsmanship and wood choices being shared here&mdash;mahogany always adds such a rich look.   I recently needed a sturdy side table myself for my workspace, and after searching for something both functional   and solid, I found the Woodensure side table. It’s made from quality solid wood with excellent joinery, similar   to what many of you are describing with your own builds. The durability and design really stood out to me, especially   for supporting heavier items without any wobble.   Sometimes, a well-made piece can save a lot of time and effort compared to building from scratch.</p>

The reply did seem a little spammy to me too.

Lately I've mostly been having chunks of spam in ramen noodles with lots of stray veg, bean sprouts, gochujang and a couple slices of cheese on it.  Really nice meal.

Peter Martin wrote:

@John in NM,

Stray vegetables? Like cats? That's what I use, since I can't afford Spam.

Yeah, all those orphans in the fridge, left over from other meals, unused and just waiting for a nice soup of random stuff.

Wayfair of the Sub-Continent?

Misses to whole point of WoodCentral, but charming that that little table makes the model so happy.

At least he's able to control his participles.

I view river tables as a gimmic.  Flashy, of course, but lacking a lasting aesthetic.  Gets even worse when they mix pearlesant stuff into the epoxy to mimic a Van Gough painting or a bad acid trip.  Works for bowling balls but not dining tables where you have to hunt for the salt or pepper shakers or need to be cover it with cloth to try to prevent scratches in the plastic. 
I've done a couple of tables with center "gaps", but the concepts of a unitized space were preserved.  

I did, however, see one table that was way cool.  That was were the center of the table was actually an aquarium, fish and all.  High maintenance, of course, but mesmerizing indeed.           .

I knew nothing about river tables until about five years ago when a more well to do neighbor over the fence in the next development talked about wanting to woodwork. he had a tree cut down and the tree service offered to slab it for him with a chainsaw mill for a fee, and he wanted to put epoxy in it. I know these tables are much longer in the tooth than that, but I ask YT to never show me a video again from any channel that has a woodworking theme on YT - it's aggravating and I want other junk media, not a bunch of affiliate promoting schlubs like the people everyone gushes about. 

At any rate, I looked it up and then it wasn't that long before someone pointed me to the guy who was a pilot or something who probably still has the biggest following. he was shilling some kind of finish and giving a calm talking discussion and the comments were full of gushy people. I get that the guy is making a bunch of money. The tables look stupid. The tout is what, who can spend five figures on a slab so that the table can be multiples of that, and it's square with a fabricated metal base? it's just another version of bro or dude ranch woodworking. 

Everything I've ever seen that had a lot of epoxy in it, including train layout water scenes, doesn't look good forever. Add slab wood to that over time and how long will it take for these dippy tables to look bad. Probably longer than it takes for them to go out of style. Not sure if the importers will ever get a foothold in this because much of the gimmick is probably signaling that you have the money to spend $10-$60k on a table from an it person. More traditional style stuff appears to be in the toilet value-wise, but my generation and younger has no interest in building a lifetime of "me and 15 tons of stuff are inseparable". 

I picture the $50k river table buyers being like Derek in Step Brothers.

For me, the true value of sites like the epoxy slab table maker is that it can be a sleep aid for old insomniacs. The Blacktail Studio videos are long and the narration is stable and soothing in a good baritone voice. Just keep the volume down or the FB ads will blast you awake. I also like to doze off with the Helmsberg Saw Mill videos. There is minimal narration. They have a unique mill setup with offset circular saw blades that hum constantly. The repetition of cut after cut puts me under quickly. He even acknowledges the sedative effect of his videos.

Dave Bair wrote:

For me, the true value of sites like the epoxy slab table maker is that it can be a sleep aid for old insomniacs. The Blacktail Studio videos are long and the narration is stable and soothing in a good baritone voice. Just keep the volume down or the FB ads will blast you awake. 

That's the guy i was thinking of. I am turned off by the type of table, but the guy has a superb model from a business perspective and when I referred to it above, I almost called him "the bob ross of epoxy tables", because his delivery is smooth. 

His business has everything in it you could want for youtube. For the type of what he does, even if I don't like it, he does a good job. he's a likeable guy and he's not picking boogers or wearing shirts with holes in them - he has a snappy appearance. His delivery is smooth, he can continue to make content quickly, and there is an element of what he's doing that seems achievable - the average person can imagine themselves doing the same thing even though they'd find nothing but trouble for quite a while if they tried to make something as well done. 

there are certain things you see that you just immediately think "that guy's going to sell half a billion views or more" if it's YT. Anyone remember the aiwa compact stereos in the 90s? It may take someone of a certain age group to appreciate that comment, but the first time any of us ever heard one of those in a bedroom, and at the time they incorporated a CD changer and had bass - within a minute, you instantly thought "they're going to sell 5 million of those if they can make them". Like the style or not, the blacktail guy's videos have it - and of all of the aspects they have for youtube success, it probably only takes one or two of them to draw in each viewer, even if it's just for sleeping.