Project Information
Was gifted a couple of short Keiyaki boards (Japanese Zelkova) one with curl/burl/spalt. Had the idea to do a epoxy fill for stabilization and a river table. Bought the wrong epoxy (Total Boat Self Leveling) that can only be poured 1/8" at a time… and it took too too long to finish, but the results were really good!
Quite a few lessons learned on this one, primarily with finishing… I didn't want the wood encased in Epoxy as I like a natural finish, but sanding high enough to remove swirls from the epoxy left the wood too polished to accept anything except BLO. These were wet sanded to 1200 and finished with four coats each of BLO… then sprayed with six coats of Gloss Poly with more wet sanding between.
Tried my hand at bending iron bar to match the hairpin legs, short work with a pipe bender (like it was made for it).
Finished with copper scones, dimmer switches and Edison bulbs.
Quite a few lessons learned on this one, primarily with finishing… I didn't want the wood encased in Epoxy as I like a natural finish, but sanding high enough to remove swirls from the epoxy left the wood too polished to accept anything except BLO. These were wet sanded to 1200 and finished with four coats each of BLO… then sprayed with six coats of Gloss Poly with more wet sanding between.
Tried my hand at bending iron bar to match the hairpin legs, short work with a pipe bender (like it was made for it).
Finished with copper scones, dimmer switches and Edison bulbs.