Seeking Advice

[Tonyz]

Fill the holes with clear casting resin and embed interesting stuff in them like redback or some gold painted stones, ring pulls from a can, almost anything you can think of. Makes for a great talking point and something a bit different.

I have one I with a couple of lifelike platypuses I carved and embedded in the resin. Have put all sorts of stuff in burl boles over the years.

Cheers - Neil

Ive got a large redgum slab coffee table, made it before I knew anything and found this site. However we lost some good friends as they still dont beleive the frogs imbedded in the resin holes arent real but from a discony shop.

[ciscokid]

I ran into a couple selling these at a local jamboree. They were beautiful and I asked what they used as a finish. They sprayed on catalized laquer. Looked fantastic and coated the bark too.

[pal]

Hi cisco, Thanks for the info on catalized lacquer will check it out.

Regards

Pal

[Timstools]

Quote From Neil

You can however get a look on the table as though it is satin or even almost mat when viewed from above. Yet when you view it from a distance or from sitting in your lounge chair, it will reflect everything in the room in the top.

Not hard to do and in all honesty looks a great deal better, cleaner, brighter and classier than a plain satin or oiled finish. Not only would it look fantastic but it would have an absolutely amazing, almost sensual , silky soft, feel to the finish.

How is this done?
Tim