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.
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.
Nice. More than anything, they’ll remember this the rest of their lives. Way to go “Pops” Sent from my iPad using Michigan Sportsman mobile app
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.
Great job and taking time to spend with your kids. See if you can find some spalted maple and do this to it. It would stand right out. I have never tried pour epoxy but I used a hardner and turned some bowls and vases out of the spalted maple I had
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.
Another wood that wouldlook real good doing this to is box elder. When I had my sawmill I learned a lot of different tricks people used that I had never heard of before. I sawed a lot of wood by Niles for a guy whose uncle was a Japanese guy. They would cut box elder and then sink it in a bayou on the St Joe river for months to a year. Anywhere there was a imb or a change in grain a fungus would go to work and when sawed these areas were a pastel colors. They really stood out
I have a cousin that made a coffee table / cribbage board back over 40 years ago. Just in case you run out of ideas sometime Sent from my iPad using Michigan Sportsman mobile app
I see a waterfall table in your future. https://www.etsy.com/listing/808195...9546&msclkid=87355e7382a711b31ecc01db39f29918