Wow. That's crystal clear. No air bubbles. Clean surfaces too. I'd love to see it up close in person.

I'm aware somebody may have poured their heart and soul into doing this... but.

Big rigid container to hold the mold, (and that is a crapton of epoxy/resin), and a git 'er done vacuum pump to draw the bubbles to the top.

The bubbles are the amazing part. That log, with all its cracks, would be full of air. And a mold is theoretically possible, but I wonder if there was a lot of grinding and polishing like a diamond being cut.

I've used a penetrating epoxy, stuff is horrible / miraculous. It's about 70%VOC. It really, really penetrates, seeps into the wood like water into a sponge. Then it hardens, like stone. That could be a good way to displace much of the air in the block, and make it less buoyant too. I'd still use a vacuum pump to draw out surface bubbles. And I'm positive the was a box around the stump when the urethane or epoxy was poured in around the log.

THEN, ENDLESS grinding and polishing.

Also, it is tough to say how big that work is. Those might be matchsticks in the background.. Maybe it's a paperweight or a bookend and not a table..

Gotta have a bench, why not a good one?

It's a nice bench to be sure.

But I have a few quibbles.

Why so many bench dogs in the picture? (those removable pegs sticking up) I know the picture is posed, and meant to show off the newly made bench, but do you really need to show that you have all those bench dog holes? In practice, you are only going to be using one bench dog in most situations. You don't need a dozen of them. Just one, and you move it to different holes. Maybe a spare in case you misplace the one. Actually, you would want a second dog for the support next to the side vise.

What's with the red accent paint on the chamfer on the vise? I feel like that's just asking to have red markings get on all your projects as you accidentally bump against it. It's this guy's vise, so do what you want, but I wouldn't want that.

And the vise spinner has just a metal bolt sticking out. Carve a wooden handle for it to match the tail vise. You're not done yet.

Sorry for being critical. It's a nice bench. It really is.

The wood appears to be mahogany which is fairly soft and not all that strong.

It's almost like the guy who made this doesn't know how to use a bench.

You should start off with an old hollow core door on top of a couple saw horses. Use clamps to hold your work down. Once you figure out how you work, and what you need, look at solutions others have used in the past if you want to upgrade. If you are going to customize a tried and true design that has been used for centuries, that's great! But make each change for a reason that suits you. Don't just use some wood that you read about as being a fancy wood and think that it somehow makes the thing superior. And that red paint or gel stain or whatever it is?! Why is that on the vise handles? It doesn't look like something I would want to touch. And why on the vise chamfer itself? But I'm repeating myself. Paint doesn't belong anywhere near a workbench unless it is paint splatter from a project you are working on and your workbench is a hollow core door on a couple sawhorses.

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I can see the vice chamfer, sometimes working on a piece held in the vice you want to cut or drill on an angle and the vice jaw gets in the way, especially one this thick. The chamfer allows the piece to be clamped lower in the vice than would be necessary with the thicker jaw.

The red paint warns of potential bump and pinch zones if you happen to be working nude.;)

Oh, the chamfer is a fine idea. It's painting it that I have an issue with.

It might take awhile to built a nice bench so you could grab a commercial one to use in the meantime.

You can go crazy with base design...

Or maybe a used bench...

Bravo.

When you get too old for contact sports like jousting or boxing, you can sit in aggressive looking chairs and swap threats and lies.

Made from violin parts.

Yet another bench...

I love this one. The rounded corners are a very nice touch.

Yeah, no unwelcome shots to the ribs

Very clever...

A gentleman shouldn't have to leave his chair...

Choo Choo...

I mean, it's cool, but... it's only good for 2.5 years, max, unless you keep popping out a steady stream of boy babies.

Hey hey that's sexist. Girl babies can use it too. Or puppies. ;)

I like it, clean but not exactly plain.

For the dyed in wool Pontiac freak...

... or just a sick fuck.

Good way to get a guest to leave a deuce unflushed.

I don't see anything that looks like a flush lever.

It's an... auto-flusher.

:facepalm:

You! Go stand in the corner!

I'm not sure if it would be harder or easier for her to carry me up to the bedroom, but it sure looks purty.

Looks like the tail of a tornado.

Yeah, that may be what they were going for. Good eye.

The base is 1950s but the top is timeless.

There's a reason you don't see tables like that every day. It takes considerable effort fighting the wood to avoid having big cracks obviously showing. But I like the looks of it.

Back when America was great...

Are you horny, Bunkie? Tough shit, make an ashtray.

I think those prominent pegs would be a pain in the ass...

Didn't Steve Miller have a hit with that song?

Wait.

That was Swingtown.

Ne'ermind. Sorry.

Sorry urrbody.

Me likey big time...

Most of us don't have access to a sorting hat, so a sorting box will have to do.

I'd never get to it... I've been known to dump cans of screws into concrete pours.

What's 'hardware', if it ain't screws, nails, washers, nuts, and/or bolts?

In the concrete it goes. :haha:

whatsits and gewgaws.

Man knows his widgets and turnouts.

Will to put it by the dock to cut fish on?
Will you cut it up for chopsticks? Toothpicks?
Flock it green for a model train table?

Many many chances to change the design on the fly. ;)

7 stringer? Is that a Les Claypool bass or something?

Kidz these days are all about the 7-string guitar, it includes a low B string

Better sharpen your jackknife for this one...

Those are gorgeous. But are they comfortable?

Sent by magick

Comfortable? Haven't you heard an artist must suffer for their art? :lol2:

I've seen a lot of art, and thought that the artist should be made to suffer...

Cool table...

I like that.

Tentacle porn that literally gives you wood...

What's not to like?

Tentacles over the edge would drive me crazy.

You're losing looks like 1-6 inches of the table edge.

Table on tentacles. Not under. Not among.

Jesus, does anyone read Tentacle Furniture: Ethics & Accepted Practices anymore?

Pfft.