Epoxy river table

[mmoses]

Finally finished this desk. The river is copied from a stretch of the Big Hole River in Montana.

The wood is pecan. Welded the legs. One of my first welding projects.

I'm pretty proud of how it turned out out. The top is finished with Rubiomonocoat

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[sendit]

That turned out really nice looking.

I have some pecan from a tree my great grandfather planted in the early 1900's. One of these days I'll make something out of it.

[stickfigure]

looks great.

[bowtecmike]

Looks great. Any pics of the progress?

pray for rain

[mmoses]

Looks great. Any pics of the progress?

pray for rain

Yes sir

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[bowtecmike]

Awesome, you have skills

pray for rain

[mmoses]

That turned out really nice looking.

I have some pecan from a tree my great grandfather planted in the early 1900's. One of these days I'll make something out of it.

I love the look of pecan! but man, sanding it takes forever!

[mmoses]

More pics

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[hog_down]

that's some talent! looks great!

[mmoses]

Now that I'm at a computer I type a better write up.

Started with the pecan slabs. They were over two inches thick. I built a router sled using MWA Woodworks plans.

Took off almost 1in of material to make them flat. That was a mess! I had the door open, fan blowing out and the air filter running. Still, that dust was everywhere!

I glued the slabs together with a little help from dominos. I started with 2 channels on the bottom to help keep the slabs flat. I ended up adding an additional one by the time it was done. That with the metal legs should do the trick.

The river is a copy of a section of the big hole river in Montana. I took a map and imported it into a cad program to cut out a 1/4 in MDF to make a template to router it out. The template was cut out with the Shapeoko.

Taped the template down and used a flush-trim bit to cut out about 1/2 of material.

The epoxy is Ecopoxy with black pigment. This was for the river and any knots or checking.

After the epoxy dried, I put it back on the sled to flush everything up.

After days of sanding, it was time to finish. There was some checking in one of the ends so I threw in a walnut bowtie! First time hand-cutting a bowtie, I think it turned out good!

Finished with Rubio Monocoat Pure.

This desk is actually going to Montana, so it got crated up yesterday!

[mmoses]

Awesome, you have skills

pray for rain

that's some talent! looks great!

Thanks! Pictures don't do this justice.

[Fla Hunter]

I like it

[UncleBubba]

Awesome!

[Dusty Britches]

I like it!

[hooligan]

That looks awesome, I wish I had the talent to do something like that!