If you watch to the veeeeery end there may or may not be a special guest after the titlecard screen! ;)

Well the Veritasium bet found me a great new channel to watch, NICE. The Table is epic!

"That cannot be fixed." "So what did I do? I fixed it." Such a fantastic attitude. Incredible!

That came out amazing! You nailed it!

I really respect you for showing the stuff that doesn’t go right because that is far and away more realistic and representational of what building a difficult project is like. Major props!

"I gave myself 30 seconds to curse loudly" This is a vital part of any creative process.

Really appreciate how you showed the break that was “not fixable”. My heart sank a little when I saw the split, I’m sure it was quite horrifying. Thanks for involving us in the emotional journey as well as the technical aspects of getting through that, it’s really inspiring.

Honestly, in all my woodworking videos I've watched with Steam bending, I've never once learned HOW it works, thank you! Great explanation!

Appreciate you showing when things go wrong. too many makers on the internet make things look like you are assembling from a kit. The bumps and the bruises are the best part :)

Love the enthusiasm in your eyes. Always amazing to see someone truly enthusiastic about what they are doing.

YAY!! You fixed what couldn't be fixed... just like all those Roombas!! Ah! Perseverance!!!!

This is a really beautiful table, and the effect it creates is really cool. One look at this, and it's clear, you poured your heart into making this. Plus, you got to work on this project w/ your uncle, so it's a win-win.

I'm from Oaxaca Mexico, and I'm learning English thanks your videos. I❤️u too much.

It's worth every minute of your time to make it come out like you want it. Never too time much if it turns out like that.

I absolutely love watching your builds. This one especially, because -unlike most epoxy videos that I've watched- you actually show the struggle. That includes bubbles in your pour. I am working on my very first pour, epoxy on a slab of Teredo wood which has been a pain when it comes to bubbles. It's on its second day of curing, so one more to go. After that I will have to do quite a bit of sanding as well since there are plenty of irregularities because of bubbles. Anyway, great watching your content. Keep up the amazing work!!

Looks fantastic. Good job in fixing it and not letting people tell you that it can’t be done

Born in a hospital in Cleveland Heights I am told per hospital and State recordings, then as a babe was transported to Brunswick (which I would equate to Oregon once that era (1950-ish) got too crowded and impossible... anti-Catholic issues I am told). The land of Ohio was and (upon a recent revisit) is great, but for the revisit reminded me of why I left... most of the people... argh... (a bunch of high school level bigots with varying levels of income which they somehow think differentiates them from others). That being that... you, lady, are inspiring me. I was just going to sell (for living alone and being unattached) this current residence but now, for you being you and sharing your you via KZfaq, am now looking at turning this abode into a place of creativity and experimentation. Keep up the good work (soon to be?) woman, but a great human person (so far) none-the-less... hahahahahaha.

Can't wait for the IKEA version, Grävity.

Your videos are fun and inspirational to watch. I am so glad you can handle "when things go wrong" so well. It is really a helpful lesson for anyone who follows you.

What a breath of fresh air I just discovered you and Im so impressed there is hope for humanity

I don't know how many times you hear that, but you are freaking warrior. Resilient. To the point that the creation is the second most impressive thing you do.

The D-rings reinforced with fiberglass weave and set in more epoxy is brilliant! Amazing work. I think this is the best tensegrity table on KZfaq right now!

The only table that twerks. :) You could actually center the strings and hide them under the table for added practicality. Looks great. Wish I could do this. :)

OMG I'm super hype about this channel, it's always nice having more makers here in YT. That table is GORGEOUS

Wonderful channel! If anyone else is going to build one, I have one time bit of advice. If you want to hide the turnbuckles, you can have a fixed loop at the bottom of the cable, Looks nice! Then have an eyelet on the underside of the table. The cable would loop through the eyelet and then run parallel to the underside of the table. Then the turnbuckle, is hidden from view, but adjustability remains.

Loved this. Please let me life my woodworkerheart vicariously through you. Also your uncle is sporting a nice kano there.

I had to pause and subscribe when you pulled out the MAKE: to explain wood composition and steam bending. Kudos for good props. :)

I love smart, creative and kind women.

I've loved this style of table forever, your take on it is so perfect. It came out absolutely gorgeous!!

That is absolutely magnificent! I really like how you use the cables to balance the tensile forces to hold the table-top in suspension.

very cool project, I like the touch of the fake tension cables on the top part. Good job!!

What an awewome uncle, he just exudes that model vibe lmao

I know I am late to the party, just found your channel. At first I thought this was not a Xyla project, but then there was fiberglass, and things were back to normal :-)

This is AMAZING!!! I saw several tensegrity tables, and this is the first one that includes more beautifying elements: bent wood and acrylic. It could've used some LED to make it overkill.

Xyla - You explained bending good and how the fibers and lignin work more simply, yet elegantly and exactly better than I have ever seen anyone (including people with university degrees) I have ever seen. I like your style and the way you roll. Keep it up.

Your Uncle Peter looks like a wonderful madman❤👍🤣 awesome fellow😎

amazing save on that broken leg! it is one of the best looking tensegrity tables around, but as an engineer I would also over engineer it and put the wire tensioners horizontally under the base of the table, it would need little pulley thingy at the base to change the direction of the cables but then the cables would be clean and would look uber stylish. I would also cross diagonally the cables to give it extra stability, I think it should work better.

That table is amazing 😍. I know I'm late to the party on watching your videos. I enjoy watching them and watching all the work put into everything. Keep up the great work. Have to say you are very fun and beautiful. Your uncle is funny as well

Getting a feel for the properties and strengths of materials is one of the things you learn from experience. That is why it is a good idea to start off using other peoples plans. Learning the hard way can be frustrating but it is rewarding.

that's great perseverance along with blood, sweat and cussing. outstanding 😀 example of how to with invaluable assists from uncle.

I've never seen an epoxy table, that's even cooler than the tensegrity

Wow that's a lot of epoxy! Love the table top.

Thank you for also always sharing when stuff doesn't go exactly to plan. It's really encouraging tbh. This channel makes me wanna be a better person in some strange way🖤

"Impossible to fix" Engineers: So we proceeded to fix it.

Kudos for fixing the broken 'leg' (I probably would have just made a new one) but that was very inventive

Amazing, you have a real talent with woodwork and resin.

A lot of your uncle has worn off on you over the years, hasn't it? I just found you on KZfaq and have watched quite a few of your videos and I am now subscribed. Thank you for posting. It gives an old disabled individual something to watch besides regular TV.

0:56 old table saws without a riving knife always give me the shivers. I'm an occasional woodworker too, but even modern table saws with all the safety features scare me quite a bit. Be careful girl, keep those amazingly skillful hands safe. :) Just discovered your channel, awesome content.

That break totally broke my heart, but I guess it comes with the territory! That's an amazing piece and now I'm going to have to look into making one! Great job!

That’s really clever. The advantage of ash is it’s straight grain. If you choose it carefully there won’t be any grain going off the edge. But more importantly you created something truly beautiful which works.

Thank you for including your mishap and how you repaired it, because things in real life seldom turn out as perfectly as they do on video. ❤

Watching this after watching your more recent videos, the "I'm going to try steam bending wood!" at the beginning only made me think, "wait... isn't that like, basically everything you do?" :P

I’ve never built one of these, but the first time I ever saw one, it immediately occurred to me that as they might be stable vertically, because of the tension involved, my guess was that they would not be stable side to side, or rotationally, and would wobble quite a bit. And when that cat jumped off, it became clear that it was indeed wobbly. If I ever do try to build one, I think I might at least try getting some triangulation happening, by having the outer wires cross each other and be fastened together. Still not sure that would be enough, but would probably be way better than straight wires. Might be harder to put equal tension along crossed wires though. But they would probably still look at anti-gravity as the straight ones. Hard to tell. I like what you did with the top. That’s a nice design.

Good job! You are very kind and talented! And your colleague reminds me of a mixture of William Dafoe and Christopher Lloyd! hahahaha I laugh a lot at the faces he makes! 😂 Congratulations on the works! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

nice to see the ups and downs of making and knowing that with every project you learn something new.

the table looks flipping amazing! it does look very classy, your design work paid off big time. also laughed way too hard at "monkies can learn too!" that's how i feel all the time in my shop lol

Wow, Xyla! That is amazing!

This is the best example of a tensegrity table I have seen so far, the top is awesome, the base (with the black paint and epoxy) looks great and the steam bent supports look great.

Stunning! I love how delicate it looks with the curves! Nice work!

Very nice build. First time I saw and figured out how these tables work. Good job!

I love you girl. I'm a mechanical engineering girl and watching inspires me to do stuff I can't, u r my real aspiration. U ignite that in me that you girl you can do it anyway. No one is gonna stop you from doing any crazy sh***❤❤❤

What a joy to see so much creativity and encouragement in a video this super

Such a beautiful piece of ash!

I loved this video! I love your "CAN DO" attitude and bubbly personality as you tackle obstacles and overcome setbacks! A successful person fails more than an unsuccessful person ever even tries!

This is seriously the coolest thing ever!!!!

Xyla Foxlin, You do some amazing work, and this table is a perfect example! And yes, it is mid century modern. The principle of tensegrity used in the table was invented by Richard Buckminster Fuller. It is explained in his books Synergetics I and II. Fuller is best known for having invented the geodesic dome. Thank you for sharing this demonstration of your amazing skills and knowledge.

awesome job. It's nice to see a young girl embrace wood, epoxy, and failure. I loved the approach to fixing the break. We yell, say things not so nice and then go for it. go girl

I'm glad you decided to make the table top fancy instead of plain. It's a cool design and it just looks more custom 👍

Such a good repair idea! Never too late to join the tensegrity party!

You really turned the tables on this one!

You should totally see if you can reach out to Physics Girl. That would be an awesome collaboration.

The fiberglass in epoxy technique to stabilize the D rings is super cool!

For filling the gaps, a trick that guitar luthiers use is to use the sawdust/shavings from the same wood. Pretty much guaranteed a colour match.

I love the finish you get on the top. Good job

The Tie fighter idea is genius.

Brilliant build! Mistakes and all - bravo!.... Hmmm got me tempted to make one as well....

0:25 Sleeping through Statics?? I feel like some people got triggered with that comment haha 1:44 Steambending sounds like something I saw from Avatar the Last Airbender 4:55 What a kind gesture from your uncle! 9:10 Me when I'm cleaning my apartment and trying to pass the time 11:55 "That cannot be fixed" Xyla: Challenge ACCEPTED I took a class in theoretical continuum mechanics (solid/fluid mechanics, elasto statics/dynamics) and it's so interesting to see the real-life application of the transformation of materials as it interacts with all these tools and heat! Wish I had the tools and the skills to create cool stuff like you, the final product looked amazing!

Her energy and enthusiasm are contagious!!!! Yes I'm a simp, but I'm totally in love!!!!!😍

I like the idea, and in the z axis you could obtain sufficient strength from the compression in the wood/carbon fiber and the tension in the cables to be practical, but it would rotate as a spring I would think, which would make a bit unstable for a practical coffee or end table as it is. Angled cables from the attachment point at the bottom of one cable to the attachment point at the top of the adjacent cable would prevent that. The added cabling would take away from the impression of the top floating though. After I typed this I saw the cat cameo at the end and that springiness. This is not a criticism, just an observation, I love your work and your table is beautiful and you are amazing. I am a bit sad that you moved to California, and will not have your uncle so close to help you with your projects. I suspect he was a bit of an inspiration for you growing up, and people like him are valuable in our lives.

Steam bending, I've always wanted to make an old timey rope tension snare or bass drum (for civil war reenacting or fife and drum corps) , bending the shell, counter hoops and flesh hoops. New 5 gallon steel gas can, hoses, wood or PVC for the steam box, and a form to bend it around, taper the ends of the wood in a lap-joint, steam, join with glue and a tack, on the shell glue and tack with furniture tacks to make a pretty design, finish, assemble, lay down some sick beats. I'm not sure what to bend the shell around, was thinking a full sized wooden plug made out of dozens of plywood disks and maybe band clamps to hold it in place.

Nice one ..can you make a canoe using acrylic making it a clear canoe?? If you do that. ..you will be the first one I've ever seen in youtube. ..that might look awesome!

It took me a while of looking at it to figure out how it was even possible … what a cool idea

as an old engineer you make me laugh and give me hope for the future

The canoe project has a very important high emotional content, however I liked this project much more because of its technical complexity. You have a high impact adventurous spirit, adjusted to these different ideas. I think your uncle's support has been very relevant, give him my regards and move on.

Absolutely stunning.

I've seen the 3D printed models. But your interpretation is amazing. Thumbs UP!

Loved it. Tbh I would have bandaged the legs with fibreglass to absolutely secure them. But that's me. It looks gawjuss just like 'uncs' canoe. Well built Xyla..

So awesome to see how something like that comes together!! I really enjoyed seeing the progress as well as the insane results

I am increasingly likely to start fiberglassing things for strength the more I watch your videos.. (also the medium story was heartbreaking and incredible)

Hi Xyla, Fine project but I would like to make some small suggestions. With that thick bottom plate you use and your finely equiped workshop why not use the router and make some holes underneath the plate where you can hide the tensioners. And use thinner and black wire to increase the howering effect! Best regards and keep on making! Walter

I've seen a couple of people on here tackle this project but this is the first one I've save and thought was beautiful

That's awesome!! Now you can trim it out in LEDs to make it glow in the dark. Replace one of the outer tensioners with a power cable to keep it masked. 😁

That is a classy table!

Wow. It turned out simply beautiful. So sad when it broke, but I checked the remaining video time... "Hmmmm. That might be enough to fix it!". So happy you didn't give up!

I’ve looked all over for tensegrity structure. Yours is the most beautiful I’ve found. Good job! I wish I had all those tools to make my own!

That's art and engineering combined. Nice :-)

Glad to see you using the organic vapor respirator with the epoxy. You might mention this to your audience in case some do not realize this requirement. Very informative video.

Nice ash for sure. Nice top, too.

Wonderful workmanship. A true pleasure to watch.

That is truly gorgeous!