This Red Oak slab started off as a 10’ by 28” warped piece of scrap wood. I was able to rip the slab down the center and then crosscut it in half. After the milling process, I found many cracks that had to be dealt with before moving forward. Cracks in the live edge and end grain were stabilized with epoxy. Of course, this led to more milling. Having boards milled before an epoxy pour is very important. Inconsistencies seem to not just add problems, but multiply them when dealing with epoxy.

There are plenty of people out there that are very vocal about disliking epoxy in furniture. Truthfully, I am not always head over heels with it. In my opinion, it’s pretty cool to be able to use epoxy to save wood from the scrap or fire pile and turn it into furniture, guitars, or anything else you can think of.

The epoxy center on this piece was sanded to a very high grit and then polished with multiple buffing compounds. The Red Oak was finished with an oil/wax finish that gave a lot of contrast to the high gloss epoxy. The top is held up by the stout metal frame base.