Kaleo’s Workshop

So let me start out by saying never have I seen so much rain here in the Washington D.C. area than the last month. You would think that we were in Seattle or something. Even with all the rain in the last two day, the shop has stayed relatively dry. Of which I am very happy. But the real fun came last Friday, it was the first time that I had the chance to pour a concrete counter top. Man was it really cool. It took us about 2 hours to prep and pour and clean up. First things first we had to build a frame, that was built a few weeks ago. But you have to remember when you do this that you are doing everything upside down. So we decorated the top surface with some nice stones and some petrified pieces of wood. This was all done by my Uncle Chris (you can check him out at Concrete Connexion, google it I can’t get the link up now). After which 4 bags of concrete go into a huge mixer along with some dark blue tints and some trade secret stuff. This all mixes for a few minutes and then it’s into the mold which is on a huge workbench equipped with 4 massive vibrators that shake the hell out of the concrete. Then you let it cure for 4 days which brings us to today. It came out of the mold this morning which was cool to see. But now we have to do some griding and then polish and then she will look amazing. I will snap a few photos when that all happens.A new Episode of This Week in Wood should be out by the end of the week. So look out for that.
Also please excuse the spelling, for some reason the computer that I am using won’t allow me to spell check. It’s not my money MAC.

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