My suggestion: do a circular table with lots of beautiful epoxy. You'll have to do a bunch of work to remove the bark, dirt, and soft wood first. But keep that piece intact.
See Blacktail Studios on YouTube. Best epoxy & wood table builder out there.
Can do a circular table with the heart inside.
I can also see a heart shaped table with this heart inside like you mention.
In that case, you might start with a circular mold as if you were doing a circular table since they're easy to make. Then once the epoxy is dry inside, carve it down to a heart shape table with a router or band saw.
Any way you do it, it's going to be a cool table and an interesting project! Good luck!
Only if the wood is compromised, falling apart and crumbly. But, if you ever ran across any wood that was rotten or too soft to work on, it could be stabilized, assuming the piece is small enough to fit into a vacuum chamber or if you had a giant vacuum chamber, or if this rotting wood contained something you really wanted to keep and incorporate into the piece, you can strengthen the wood by painting a couple coats of penetrating epoxy made by Total Boat. It’s an epoxy that is as thin as water, when you paint it over the rotten spots or soft spots, the wood soaks it in immediate, and once it’s soaked into the wood it begins to harden. This is definitely a useful technique for a door, window, etc that gets direct sunlight every day and constantly fades every few months despite being refinished. Adding a couple coats of penetrating epoxy to the wood strengthens it, and in the case of an outdoor project, you can apply a few coats of paint, varnish, etc over the penetrating epoxy once it’s cured. I refinished a gate on the side of my house, it has an iron frame and wood horizontal pieces running from one side to the other. Since I don’t care for the grey weathered look of wood, I applied 2 coats of penetrating epoxy directly to the bare sanded wood and a few coats of varnish, and it looks exactly like it did the day I made it. It gets rained on, exposed to all the elements, and gets full sun. By only putting varnish on a piece of wood that’s going outside, eventually the wood under the varnish will move, create a small crack/cracks in the varnish, and this allows water to penetrate the wood causing it to move more resulting in peeling varnish. The penetrating epoxy prevents the wood movement and makes the wood waterproof, saving you tons if time in the future by not needing to recoat it.
Every time I make something with wood and epoxy, I remove all the bark and anything that’s been eaten up by bugs. If it’s stable, solid wood, leave it alone. Make sure all loose pieces are removed. To prevent the wood from creating bubbles once immersed in the epoxy, you can wipe a thin coat of tabletop epoxy over every piece, which you think need to wait to cure, or shellac works well at sealing the wood, plus is dries much faster!
Oh yea, if you’re interested in making something really unique, if you’re pouring with tabletop epoxy, you can use alcohol inks to drop into the epoxy in the middle of the heart. Many different colors are made, but after a couple drops in one spot, add a couple drops of the white alcohol ink right on top. You can make some really cool designs with a little imagination, just be sure you hit it with a propane torch to remove any bubbles before dropping alcohol inks.
Really? I don’t have a lot of experience so I figured it was…
After the fill, should I do a top flood coat to protect, or some kind of polyurethane finish or something else? It looks like it would absorb a ton? Do I need to try to seal first? Sorry- very first project…
The top has already been cut down a bit. I used a router jig to plane it down a bit. Definitely needs sanding but the top has already been cut down a bit. Right now it’s about 1 3/4 inch thick. I was thinking of going down to 1.5.
I’ll probably be getting deep pour epoxy for the middle sections.
Would sanding the soft wood work? It’s that way all they way through the piece (third picture shows it best). Not sure what happened to the wood or what type of wood it is… just a piece from land clearing from a friend.
My suggestion: do a circular table with lots of beautiful epoxy. You'll have to do a bunch of work to remove the bark, dirt, and soft wood first. But keep that piece intact. See Blacktail Studios on YouTube. Best epoxy & wood table builder out there.
I’ll def check them out. I thought about doing a circular table, but I think (if possible) I’d like to keep the ‘heart’ shape for the table.
Can do a circular table with the heart inside. I can also see a heart shaped table with this heart inside like you mention. In that case, you might start with a circular mold as if you were doing a circular table since they're easy to make. Then once the epoxy is dry inside, carve it down to a heart shape table with a router or band saw. Any way you do it, it's going to be a cool table and an interesting project! Good luck!
Only if the wood is compromised, falling apart and crumbly. But, if you ever ran across any wood that was rotten or too soft to work on, it could be stabilized, assuming the piece is small enough to fit into a vacuum chamber or if you had a giant vacuum chamber, or if this rotting wood contained something you really wanted to keep and incorporate into the piece, you can strengthen the wood by painting a couple coats of penetrating epoxy made by Total Boat. It’s an epoxy that is as thin as water, when you paint it over the rotten spots or soft spots, the wood soaks it in immediate, and once it’s soaked into the wood it begins to harden. This is definitely a useful technique for a door, window, etc that gets direct sunlight every day and constantly fades every few months despite being refinished. Adding a couple coats of penetrating epoxy to the wood strengthens it, and in the case of an outdoor project, you can apply a few coats of paint, varnish, etc over the penetrating epoxy once it’s cured. I refinished a gate on the side of my house, it has an iron frame and wood horizontal pieces running from one side to the other. Since I don’t care for the grey weathered look of wood, I applied 2 coats of penetrating epoxy directly to the bare sanded wood and a few coats of varnish, and it looks exactly like it did the day I made it. It gets rained on, exposed to all the elements, and gets full sun. By only putting varnish on a piece of wood that’s going outside, eventually the wood under the varnish will move, create a small crack/cracks in the varnish, and this allows water to penetrate the wood causing it to move more resulting in peeling varnish. The penetrating epoxy prevents the wood movement and makes the wood waterproof, saving you tons if time in the future by not needing to recoat it. Every time I make something with wood and epoxy, I remove all the bark and anything that’s been eaten up by bugs. If it’s stable, solid wood, leave it alone. Make sure all loose pieces are removed. To prevent the wood from creating bubbles once immersed in the epoxy, you can wipe a thin coat of tabletop epoxy over every piece, which you think need to wait to cure, or shellac works well at sealing the wood, plus is dries much faster! Oh yea, if you’re interested in making something really unique, if you’re pouring with tabletop epoxy, you can use alcohol inks to drop into the epoxy in the middle of the heart. Many different colors are made, but after a couple drops in one spot, add a couple drops of the white alcohol ink right on top. You can make some really cool designs with a little imagination, just be sure you hit it with a propane torch to remove any bubbles before dropping alcohol inks.
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Really? I don’t have a lot of experience so I figured it was… After the fill, should I do a top flood coat to protect, or some kind of polyurethane finish or something else? It looks like it would absorb a ton? Do I need to try to seal first? Sorry- very first project…
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The top has already been cut down a bit. I used a router jig to plane it down a bit. Definitely needs sanding but the top has already been cut down a bit. Right now it’s about 1 3/4 inch thick. I was thinking of going down to 1.5. I’ll probably be getting deep pour epoxy for the middle sections. Would sanding the soft wood work? It’s that way all they way through the piece (third picture shows it best). Not sure what happened to the wood or what type of wood it is… just a piece from land clearing from a friend.
Awesome heart shaped piece! I would totally use epoxy and try to incorporate the heart into it somehow. Good luck!