Epoxy River Table

[mals]

Has anyone made an epoxy river table? I have been asked to look into making one for a charity event and have no experience with this type of thing.

Mals

[Large Wooden Badger]

I helped my son make one for his school project.  Pretty straight forward.

[FrankAtl]

Lots of decent YouTube videos on doing it. Might want to check that out.

[Latech15]

If you follow any woodworking channels on social media, they cover it very well.  It is amazing how they killed an idea so fast by over advertising it.  It wasn't a thing, then everybody and their mother did it, and now it is cliche' to do it.

[Admiral]

Personally, I don't "get" the concept; I'd rather have wood grain speak for itself; but it has become a "thing."

[mals]

I am not a fan of the idea but I may need to do it anyway. I have watched the videos but they all seem to go so smoothly, they sure make it look easy.

Mals

[mound]

It seems over on the reddit/r/woodworking forum people post those things almost daily.. To the point the "innerwebs" are done with them as a fad

But you should be able to find examples and blog posts detailing how it's done

[Redman]

Well they might be an over and done fad but they are new to me. A quick search came up with lots of interesting live edge tables with the wood grain showing. Some resembling to me satellite images of the earth.

[Gary G™]

The first one I remember was tastefully done by Doug Stowe—it was small river rock between central edges. Later, folks started using Acrylics in the stream.
Anymore, lots of them look like two boards with a plastic stick in between.

Doug’s table:
https://www.finewoodworking.com/readerpr...ding-table

Early river table with Acrylic:
This guy has figured out how to market himself yet his work, older than many, seems to stand apart.
http://www.gregklassen.com/

[stillgotten]

It's the first I've heard or seen it but I liven under a rock, some are pretty cool but most are just meh.