I finished this coffee table for Patrick that I started a while ago. With all the rain in Sydney earlier thie year it became really hard to work on wood and keep things dry.
The finished table with a few pours of molding epoxy resin to hold it all together.Near the end when there were just a few remaining holes and a meniscus that had hardened around the edge where I dammed the epoxy I made a couple of small mixes which I coloured with a tiny bit of fluoro pigment - yellow, pink and deep red violet
Much earlier in the process(there's more info and images from earlier in that here))
Blogger loads images in an order they alone understand. Anyway this shows the main pieces of timber assembled before I started filling the slots. The timber with the larger slots is frome a staircase stringer(the piece at the sides where the steps and risers are set) The pine piece with slightly smaller 'X' slota must ne for something similar, I guess.
The pieces of old kitchen chairs I used to fill some of them turned out to be made of peeper tree, the smell of (a relative of black) pepper was very strong when cut or sanded. Pink pepper trees grow feral along railway tracks in Melbourne. I've also seen members of that family grown ornamentally. They aren't tall or straight but grow quite massive, (and chairs don't require long straight pieces)
Epoxy doesn't stick to polyethylene so these bits of shopping bag were great to stop the base from sticking to the workbench, or the top while I finished them and they dried
I floated 2 pieces of shiny aluminium leaf onto thefirst pour on the top. This is when it had dried enough to pull the dam from around it
Polyethylene separating the pieces
A couple of close-ups of the finished piece
