Anyone dabble with wood and resin?

When we decided the kids would do school at home this year I realized that they each needed a desk to work on/computer. I had bought some resin and had some kiln dried lumber. Did a lot of research and lots of YouTube. As long as you have some basic tools and know a few tricks it’s not hard - just takes a lot of prep time. Made each of the kids a table. They helped by picking their colors and doing their own pour of the casting resin.

 

Here’s the other one. They love them.

 

Then my mom said she wanted a coffee table and had an old one from her grandfather that was probably over 100 years old. I removed the top, cut it to a better length and went from there. Much more challenging but looks good.

 

I took the 20” piece I cut off that table slab and am making a 12x18” serving tray for mom for Christmas. Still in process... As always - pics don’t do it justice. Yes I have a thing for Petoskey Stones. I collect and polish them.

 

Thanks for the thought - you are spot on. The kids and I each signed our initials and dated it with a Sharpie on the bottoms.

 

Scout yes you can buy dried hardwood slabs. Spalted maple looks amazing. Next summer planning to do a coffee table for my place and maybe a dining table. Will find a nice piece of live edge slab wood for those projects.

 

The resin is not cheap. About $100 per gal for what I settled on. Lots of choices out there. The kids’ tables were about 18” x 40” x 3/4” and took about 80-90 oz of casting resin and another 30 oz of top coat resin each.