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- Teal river, round
- Olive and oak in teal epoxy, 90 cm. Two live-edge slabs set into the pour, with a knot left open and filled.
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Two boards, chosen
Picked for grain and for how flat they sit. Nothing about the piece is decided yet except the wood.
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Day 1Day 12
Two boards, chosen
Picked for grain and for how flat they sit. Nothing about the piece is decided yet except the wood.
Milled and dammed
The slabs come flat, then a sealed form is built around them. Every seam is taped, because epoxy finds any gap there is.
The pour begins
It goes in slowly, in layers, so the resin does not overheat as it sets. The workshop smells of it for a week.
Petals go in
Dried roses and gold flake are dropped while the layer is still soft. Where each one stops sinking is where it stays for good.
Nothing happens
The resin hardens on its own schedule and goes cloudy on the way. This is most of the twelve days, and none of it can be hurried.
Sanded back
Flattened, then up through the grits. The left half here is still dull; the right has come back to glass.
Finished
Oiled, polished, and lit from the inside. Twelve days after two rough boards went onto the bench.
Two tables, one shape
Both are round, both are oak and olive, and both were poured in the same workshop. The only real difference is what went into the resin. One holds the light; the other swallows it.
- Black river, round
- Oak in black epoxy, 90 cm. One river through jointed boards, standing on black hairpin legs.
Why it has to be seen moving
A still photograph flattens the pour. The resin has real depth, and the light travels down through it as you move past. Filmed on a phone, held close, then steadied.
- Olive, up close
- The grain runs right out to the live edge, and the pour takes the shape the wood left behind.
- Where it ended up
- Photographed where it lives rather than in a studio, which is the only picture here that has not been tidied.
That is one table. Yours takes the same twelve days.
Every piece is made this way, one at a time. Tell us the room and the wood, and you get a price and a date back, usually the same day.