[Woodworkers] Resin Table

[Ron Odum]

Wish I could help...Never made one...yet!  Saw one made out of a rip sawed
tree hollow that will look good in the living room...

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:23 AM chuck.steger--- via Woodworkers <
woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote:

>    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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