[Woodworkers] Resin Table

[chuck.steger at gmail.com]

   I am making my first resin table. I decided to start with a nightstand
size table since it's my first time doing a resin table. I chose a board
with a big crack in it. The crack is not wide enough to call a "river"
table, so we'll call it a "creek" table. Making the form for the top and
pouring the resin went well. It released from the form fairly easily. One
lesson learned was to screw the top down from the bottom. I didn't expect
the wood to float so I had to improvise and weigh it down with some bricks.
Most of the brick removed easily but one was epoxied to the wood pretty
good. I tried to belt sand it out but red brick is real hard! I ended up
chiseling out the brick which worked well (dulled my chisel!) since I'll
have to sand down anyway. Which leads me to my questions:

   What do you use to level the table and sand the resin? I tried a belt
sander but it loads up real quickly. Will the resin dull my planer knives if
I send it through the planer? I have a drum sander but if the belt sander
loaded up, wouldn't the drum sander? I thought about putting it back in the
form and use a router to level. The top wasn't totally level but I could use
wedges to level, then route. The underside of the top has a good 1/8" to
3/16" of resin and I'd like to take that down to the wood. One YouTube video
said they liked Micro Mesh sanding pads because they are porous and vacuum
easily but that would be a lot of sanding to remove 1/8" or more.

   Advice? Thanks!

 

Chuck

 

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