I delivered this a few months ago, just never got around to posting it. A big burl table to go with 2 others I previously made for the same office of a an Aggie.
the slab:
tape up the back to seal it:
so i could flood the front with epoxy:
even after sanding down, there were still a lot of small defects that needed cleaning out/filling. This is probably the most tedious slab I have ever worked with. I probably did this check/pick out/epoxy/dry 24 hours/sand down excess epoxy then repeat 10+ times:
I finally got most of them taken care of to my satisfaction, but i still sprayed a few coats of finish, sanded them down and resprayed to really fill in any small defects. It wasn't perfectly flawless (which i am ok with some character showing through) but i didn't want it rampant with small spots and certainly didn't want any that were big enough that writing on a piece of paper on top would have been an issue.
You can see the small defects. This was pre-sanding/refinishing. I probably got rid of 80% of them from what you see here.
finally good enough i was happy:
a walnut base:
I found a guy in the Czech Republic who makes custom metal emblems, so i upped my game and ordered a hundred of them to start using on projects. I saw someone last year have them on the side of some cutting boards. The boards were average in my opinion, but i thought the metal logo looked sharp as hell.
the slab:
tape up the back to seal it:
so i could flood the front with epoxy:
even after sanding down, there were still a lot of small defects that needed cleaning out/filling. This is probably the most tedious slab I have ever worked with. I probably did this check/pick out/epoxy/dry 24 hours/sand down excess epoxy then repeat 10+ times:
I finally got most of them taken care of to my satisfaction, but i still sprayed a few coats of finish, sanded them down and resprayed to really fill in any small defects. It wasn't perfectly flawless (which i am ok with some character showing through) but i didn't want it rampant with small spots and certainly didn't want any that were big enough that writing on a piece of paper on top would have been an issue.
You can see the small defects. This was pre-sanding/refinishing. I probably got rid of 80% of them from what you see here.
finally good enough i was happy:
a walnut base:
I found a guy in the Czech Republic who makes custom metal emblems, so i upped my game and ordered a hundred of them to start using on projects. I saw someone last year have them on the side of some cutting boards. The boards were average in my opinion, but i thought the metal logo looked sharp as hell.