Thread: A bit of eye candy

different people different tastes. Very ostentatious but that america.

Bringing the legs into the house my first thoughts wouldnt a temporary ramp and trolley work here.

Ugh, epoxy.

This fashion needs to die, fast.

In 20 years time a 100K timber dinning table will be made with 100% epoxy. Please not another epoxy pour.

i don't mind a good epoxy pour provided that they are done tastefully or using woods that otherwise won't be used in a specific application. Eg burl timber in long dining tables, sure we've all seen burl side/coffee tables. But i quite like the look of a gnarly peice of timber crafted into a dining table.

River tables, epoxy chopping boards, "resin art" on the other hand... needs to exit stage left.

Finding a client thats loaded is the woodworking skill that has so far eluded me.
30K US for a slab top table is good work if you can get it. Not quite to my taste but I guess they make what the punter wants. Making furniture and getting paid so good luck to them.
Regards
John

I think it's very ordinary and offensive to the wood to use that much epoxy. Imagine how the wood feels.

Where was the pallet wood?

Apparently cottonwood is 'usually used for pallets or firewood'.

Originally Posted by orraloon

Finding a client thats loaded is the woodworking skill that has so far eluded me.
30K US for a slab top table is good work if you can get it. Not quite to my taste but I guess they make what the punter wants. Making furniture and getting paid so good luck to them.
Regards
John

For North America, 30k ain't much to spend on such a large project. That slab alone here would be 30k, even if it's pallet wood.

Every time I see such projects I cringe, epoxy is really toxic. It has a nice pleasant peanut smell but really messes you up over time. They'd be breathing in the off gassing for weeks. I've worked with the stuff for years, many years ago, and now I wouldn't even go in the building if I knew what they were up to.

Dumb question. Will wood movement cause any problems in the future? The wood and epoxy are expanding and shrinking at different rates. Will it crack where the wood meets the epoxy over time?

Originally Posted by Wongo

Dumb question. Will wood movement cause any problems in the future? The wood and epoxy are expanding and shrinking at different rates. Will it crack where the wood meets the epoxy over time?

I didn't want to get into picking apart the project but I suspect there's going to be a fair bit of stress over the seasons that may, or may not, end with a crack or two. The epoxy won't have any give in it when the poplar wants to move. And when you go from a summer season where the doors are thrown wide open, and then closed and the air conditioning cranked at night. Then to a winter season where the humidity is near zero... With those wild swings of humidity there's going to be mms of movement.

The legs alone will have a lot of movement in them... I wouldn't have gone with laying up 4 layers of 2". There's a good reason billiard table makers use 1" on such bulky legs. I could see the glue lines opening up.

But some how I doubt we'll know as there won't be a follow up vid outlining what went wrong.