11-25-2015, 03:36 AM
I posted on someone's thread a couple of weeks back about flattening wide boards with a router.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TxJAH6-ls
Anyway, this is how it's turned out.
A bit of sander work and some wooden plugs glued into knot holes and then it's time to break out the epoxy. Excuse the dribbles, they sand out later.
Embedded some coins in the bigger areas of resin. 2015 Cook Island coins that dates the build. And started on the polyurethane.
First coat of varnish.
Board number 2 was a big chunky 2x8 that got sliced up to build the base.
Test fit.
Minor mistake. The top tapers and I lost a bit of width when I planed it down. Means the top support is about 2" wider than the actual top at one end.
Not fatal as I will just band saw off end of the top part of each end stand and refinish it.
Anyway, this gets around all the potential problems of gluing up a table top. Just use a bigger piece of wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TxJAH6-ls
Anyway, this is how it's turned out.
A bit of sander work and some wooden plugs glued into knot holes and then it's time to break out the epoxy. Excuse the dribbles, they sand out later.
Embedded some coins in the bigger areas of resin. 2015 Cook Island coins that dates the build. And started on the polyurethane.
First coat of varnish.
Board number 2 was a big chunky 2x8 that got sliced up to build the base.
Test fit.
Minor mistake. The top tapers and I lost a bit of width when I planed it down. Means the top support is about 2" wider than the actual top at one end.
Not fatal as I will just band saw off end of the top part of each end stand and refinish it.
Anyway, this gets around all the potential problems of gluing up a table top. Just use a bigger piece of wood