Reworked Spice Table

Video

Summary

This is a fantastic example of reworking an epoxy project.

In this video, the creators created an epoxy table with bowls of spices embedded within the table top.

Embedding the spices was clearly a successful endevor and yielded a beautiful table. The garlic bowl however left air bubbles within the epoxy. However, they machined out that section and then replaced the garlic bowls with other spices.

What is truely fascinating is that reworked sections are indistinguishable from the original work.

Epoxy is truely an amazing product to work with. One of the reasons I like it so much is that its easy to rework it and still end up with a beautiful piece.

I also like this video because it shows you how well things age. You will see a table 4 years after its original construction and it is in fantastic shape.

The second half of the video is mostly wood working where they created reworked the table legs, though at the end they show the final refinishing of the whole table. Its definately worth it to watch it to the end.

Other Thoughts

The issue with the garlic looked to be two things. Air bubbles will arrise when the material one is coating (or submerging) contains air that is slowly leaking out while the epoxy cures. The other issue was the thin skin of the garlic separated and floated away from the cluster.

In this case, each of the bowls of spices could have been separtely coated in a plastic bowl that was evacuated in a vacumm vessel. Once the material is evacuated and coate in epoxy, air should not bleed out of the coated material. So, pouring the pre-coated materials into their bowl within the table might have eliminated the issue with the garlic.

This is a fair bit of extra work, so their solution to just replace the garlic with a material that didn't exhibit issues was a wise choice.