Table river with your own hands. How to make money on the manufacture of tables from epoxy and wood? Features of the business of manufacturing tables based on epoxy resin

Slab - a cut of a tree trunk, the edges of which remain intact in the finished product. The term was borrowed by the carpentry industry from the stone industry. Initially called slabs monolithic slabs, which were obtained by sawing stone blocks. In the woodworking industry, slabs are called a solid longitudinal saw cut of a tree - an array that excludes gluing and other types of joints.

The exposed section demonstrates the unique natural structure of the material - color transitions, small knots, natural growths - burls and burls. When processing a slab, the natural lines of the saw cut are preserved - the free geometry of the slab repeats the natural bends of the tree trunk. The edge is not only not leveled, but its natural original relief is additionally emphasized.

More often, slabs are made from the lower part of the tree - it is distinguished by a large width and increased strength. Saws are especially valued in places of bends and branches of the trunk. Thickness wooden board like as a rule, 5-15 cm. The most impressive look are slabs from solid woods - elm, oak, larch, walnut, poplar, acacia, mahogany, ebony, rosewood, teak, wenge, merbau and others.

The material is used to make a unique designer furniture and interior items: massive tables, kitchen worktops, chairs, benches, bedside tables, bar counters, shelves, headboards, racks, window sills, lamp bases. The production of products from slabs is singled out as a separate design direction Live edge - "living edge", "natural edge". It implies an underlined miraculousness and an emphasis on the uniqueness of wood.

Today, the furniture market is experiencing "slebomaniya". Interior items made of slab create an atmosphere of native closeness with nature, therefore they are extremely popular among residents of megacities. Live edge elements look organic in loft and eco interior styles. They are also used as accents in minimalism, eclecticism, rustic and ethnic interiors.

Particularly popular are combined tables made in the style of Live edge made of slab and figuratively cut glass or layer epoxy resin, called the "flowing river". Slab tables look extremely impressive in the interiors of offices and meeting rooms, as dining, coffee and magazine models.

The author of the idea is Greg Klassen, a furniture designer from the USA. When creating tables, he used waste from sawmills and construction sites - wood with defects that does not meet standards. furniture production. He turned the apparent shortcomings of the material into advantages. Intricate patterns of glass imitated riverbeds with ornate banks and crystal clear water.

Each river table is unique. It is logical that the price tag in this case is also exclusively "cosmic". However, the master never hid the technology of making his masterpieces, so the table-river became the public domain. If desired, almost anyone can do it.

Stages of self-production of a table from a slab of wood with a fill

Tool preparation

In order to make a table-river from solid wood with your own hands, you do not need professional equipment and skills. You will need:

manual frezer;
desktop a circular saw;
eccentric grinder;
electric drill.

Material selection

As a base, a slab of elm, or elm, is especially popular - it is durable, does not rot, lends itself well to processing, has a dark brown core, light underbark and moiré wood texture. The residual moisture content of the array should not exceed 10%. Pre-heat-treated wood acquires an even more juicy and bright shade.

The cheapest resins - such as ED-20 - are capricious in work, viscous, and have a yellowish tint. Epoxy with good value prices and quality - two-component cold curing compound Cristal: colorless and optically transparent. Due to the low viscosity of the composition, bubbles come out of its volume on their own.

The resin can be given any color with the help of special tinting pastes. At the same time, it is not recommended to choose compositions on water based as they promote the formation of bubbles.

Preparation and processing of wood

Depending on the functions of the table, determine the size and make a sketch. The slab is milled, after which the tape grinder carefully sand the traces of the cutter and polish. At the same time, the natural curvature of the edges is preserved as much as possible.

Thereafter manual router with a special carriage, the slab planes are aligned, which will be installed parallel to each other. At this stage, the largest irregularities are removed and boards of the same thickness are obtained.

After that, formwork is made from a chipboard sheet. The joints of the materials are smeared with transparent silicone sealant so that epoxy does not flow between them. To prevent the resin from getting on the outer surface of the countertop, the edges of the slabs are glued with masking tape.

After that, the "channel" of the river is primed with a thin layer of epoxy. This closes the pores and stabilizes the wood. The resin is prepared according to the manufacturer's instructions.

In order to prevent air bubbles from forming in the voids, the epoxy is poured in small doses - layers ~ 1 cm thick every 24 hours. If air bubbles form on the surface, they are heated with a building hair dryer and they burst. Gelling time of Cristal epoxy is 60 minutes, full polymerization is 1 day, full curing is 5 days. After that, the formwork is dismantled.

At the final stage, the tabletop is ground with a step-by-step reduction in grain - from P40 to P320. Before final grinding and polishing, the legs are screwed to the product. Finishing wood sanding - P600 grain, resin - P1500. After that, the wood is coated with a protective oil, usually in 2 layers. Its shade is selected taking into account the type of wood and the color of the "river". After drying, the countertop is rubbed with lint-free textiles.

Loft style table made of oak slab and epoxy

Price finished table will depend on the selected material (beech, oak, elm) and will average 50-70 thousand rubles. Budget can be viewed in our catalog.

She started with furniture restoration, then switched to interior items from wooden pallets, and now she has become interested in making loft and live edge furnishings - the team has collected all the designer fashion, including hit wood and glass countertops. We tell how they are produced and how to catch the current trend.

From restoration to production

The appearance of a full-fledged carpentry workshop in the restoration workshop was a natural step in the development of Lemon Oak. For renovation, it was often necessary to make parts of furniture that were lost over time, dear to the heart of the customer. After the team caught the trend for interior items from pallets, or pallets. The mini-factory is still engaged in it today and still approaches the choice of material with a pedantry that is not characteristic of this direction. For example, they do not use raw materials that served as containers for the transportation of petroleum products or household chemicals. “Wood absorbs odors. I think it’s not pleasant to sit on a sofa that exudes the spirit of a powder,” explains Alexei Nikolaev, head of the company.

Masters use pallets not only ready-made, but also assemble them on their own, after which they must be polished and coated with Italian paints - resistant and not having a characteristic amber. Aleksey admits that the price of one item in his company is higher than the market price. From handicraft workshops, a sofa made of pallets can be bought for 5,000 rubles. In Lemon Oak, this will cost 11,000 rubles without upholstery - it is ordered separately, and the price ceiling in this case is 15,000 rubles. Such objects are still popular with commercial spaces - cafes, hookahs, and less often - with private customers who understand how such furniture can be integrated into the home space. One of these clients was a well-known Samara architect, for whom they made a large corner sofa.

Lemon Oak is constantly studying the market, and the result of one of these studies was the launch of a line of loft-style furniture - today only the lazy do not do it. True, the start came at a time when the Network was not yet flooded with such proposals. However, Alexei still emphasizes exclusivity today. “I come up with the design together with the designer and the client – this is a team effort. If the customer comes with a photo finished product, we still redo everything - no copies, ”the CEO voices his position. The situation in the competitive market is not easy. Alexey complains that many people trust students or non-professionals who do it cheaper, but the quality of their products leaves much to be desired. A loft is a loft, but a “raw”, uncouth look and a “raw” work are two different things. In Lemon Oak, according to the manager, they don't allow themselves the latter.

How to make a table with a river

You can put together a table with a glass river in the middle from any tree, the craftsmen are sure. Most a budget option- pine. However, there is one minus that many turn a blind eye to, and some do not believe in it to the last.

The point is that pine gives off resin, and your table is one beautiful moment can "freeze". Plus, for the sake of which the customer is ready to endure this amber madness, is the price: an average-sized table will cost about 30,000 rubles.

Glass, too, at the request of the client, can be any, but by default its thickness is 4-5 millimeters. "Lemon Oak" uses tempered glass. Firstly, with such a thickness it is super strong. Secondly, even if the unexpected happened suddenly, it will not break into large pieces, but into small ones - like a car. The palette is wide. One of the last orders Coffee table with blue glass.

In general, the manufacturing process of such an item differs little from the production of an ordinary table. At the final stage, when everything is assembled, a stencil is made along the contours of the array, then a template is made, according to which a panel of the required parameters is made in the glass workshop. This is where the fun begins. Alexei says that in his lifetime the glass has never risen as it should - always the craftsmen have to adjust the inner edges of the array to the finished surface. Glue is not used - everything is held due to a clear fit. Even transport the item assembled.

Favorite instrument

Alexey knows by heart all the processes that take place in the workshop, but admits that he is primarily the manager and ideological center of Lemon Oak. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t make something worthwhile out of the boards. At the stage of forming the equipment park, he, as an experienced leader, trusted the pros - his craftsmen.

AT modern design premises, more and more often began to use extraordinary and exclusive interior items that can focus on themselves all the attention of the people present in the room. Such an original interior solution includes tables decorated with epoxy resin.

This interesting thing you can do it yourself, turning an ordinary piece of furniture into a genuine work of art.

In the furniture industry, epoxy resins are not used in pure form, since the magical qualities of epoxy are manifested as a result of its contact with a special hardener. By changing the ratio of these two connected parts, you can get a composition of different consistency. Depending on the purpose for which it will be used, it can be:

liquid essence,
viscous or rubbery substance;
solid;
high strength base.

The manufacturing process of any furniture with decor using epoxy resin involves coating the wooden base with this polymer and carefully polishing the product after the resin has hardened, as a result, a product with high wear resistance will be obtained. From the correct ratio of ingredients will depend general properties the entire composition. The wrong amount of hardener can significantly reduce strength. finished product, as well as its resistance to environment and household products. Therefore, it is so important when preparing a mixture for work to observe the ratios recommended by the polymer manufacturer, most often these ratios are 1: 1.

According to the method of use, epoxy resin can be hot cured or cold cured. When creating pieces of furniture at home, the second type is most often used.

Compared with regular tables from natural wood, tables with epoxy resin treatment have whole line advantages:

the composition of the resin, when dried, has practically no shrinkage, holds its shape well, retains original color, does not deform and is not subject to mechanical damage;
exclusivity of each product and unlimited design options;
the ability to use various additional materials for decor (coins, tree cuts, shells, stones, sea stars etc.);
the possibility of adding multi-colored dyes to the mixture, including phosphorescent paints;

impermeability to moisture and dampness;
excellent tolerance chemicals cleaning.

The main disadvantage of these tables is the very high cost of the product. To cover one copy, depending on the size and shape of the product, it can take up to several tens of liters of a polymer substance. Another possible unpleasant drawback is the presence of air bubbles that form in the epoxy mixture as a result of non-compliance with instructions and technologies during production.

The very first and one of milestones in preparation wooden structure to pouring with epoxy resin - thorough removal of dust and all other contaminants from the surface of the tree. After that, the surface of the table, which will be poured, must be primed. If this is not done, then the resin, absorbed into the porous wood, forms air bubbles that will spoil appearance products.

Only after the preparation stage is completed, is it prepared required amount mixtures of epoxy resin and hardener. On the this stage the most important thing is strict observance of the proportions specified in the instructions for use. AT ready mix depending on the chosen design, dyes or additives can be added decorative materials. Next, the resulting mixture is applied to the prepared wooden surface.

If a certain design is conceived on the tabletop from additional materials, then they need to be placed on the surface of the table even before pouring. Moreover, lightweight materials such as wine corks or shells, must first be glued to the surface in accordance with the intended pattern. It is necessary, so that during the pouring of the mixture they do not surface, thereby turning a well-thought-out composition into a disorderly and uninteresting structure. If unwanted air bubbles appear during pouring, they can be removed using building hair dryer by directing a jet of hot air to the problem area.

The mixture will begin to set after fifteen minutes, but the final stage, namely the grinding of the product, can only be started after the resin has completely hardened. It is advisable to withstand the product for a week, since after this period it will have completely settled down and will be ready for use.

After grinding, it is desirable to cover the product with several layers of protective varnish. This will prevent the release of toxic substances into the atmosphere, which in small quantities may be contained in resin compositions.

To create a table with original countertop, decorated with epoxy resin, you can take absolutely any type of tree, including a variety of fragments, saw cuts, chips and even sawdust, the main thing is that everything, even the tiniest particles of the future countertop, be thoroughly dried. In epoxy resin, old and rough wood looks amazing. For decoration, you can also successfully use sea and river shells, pebbles, dry herbs and flowers, coins, and other inclusions that can give the product a special originality or a certain theme. And by mixing luminescent dyes with epoxy resin, you will create a magical glow effect.

In modern interior design, extraordinary and exclusive interior items are increasingly being used, capable of focusing on themselves all the attention of the people present in the room. Such an original interior solution includes tables decorated with epoxy resin.

This interesting thing can be done with your own hands, turning an ordinary piece of furniture into a genuine work of art.

Properties

In the furniture industry, epoxy resins are not used in their pure form, since the magical qualities of epoxy are manifested as a result of its contact with a special hardener. By changing the ratio of these two connected parts, you can get a composition of different consistency. Depending on the purpose for which it will be used, it can be:

liquid essence,
viscous or rubbery substance;
solid;
high strength base.

The manufacturing process of any furniture with decor using epoxy resin involves coating the wooden base with this polymer and carefully polishing the product after the resin has hardened, as a result, a product with high wear resistance will be obtained. The general properties of the entire composition will depend on the correct ratio of ingredients. The wrong amount of hardener can significantly reduce the strength of the finished product, as well as its resistance to environmental influences and household products. Therefore, it is so important when preparing a mixture for work to observe the ratios recommended by the polymer manufacturer, most often these ratios are 1: 1.

According to the method of use, epoxy resin can be hot cured or cold cured. When creating pieces of furniture at home, the second type is most often used.

Pros and cons

Compared to conventional natural wood tables, epoxy treated tables have a number of advantages:

the composition of the resin, when dried, has practically no shrinkage, keeps its shape well, retains its original color, does not deform and is not subject to mechanical damage;
exclusivity of each product and unlimited design options;
the ability to use various additional materials for decor (coins, tree cuts, shells, stones, starfish, etc.);
the possibility of adding multi-colored dyes to the mixture, including phosphorescent paints;

impermeability to moisture and dampness;
excellent tolerance of cleaning chemicals.

Manufacturing process

The very first and one of the most important steps in preparing a wooden structure for pouring with epoxy resin is the thorough removal of dust and all other contaminants from the surface of the tree. After that, the surface of the table, which will be poured, must be primed. If this is not done, then the resin, absorbed into the porous wood, forms air bubbles that will spoil the appearance of the product.

Only after the preparation stage is completed is the required amount of mixture of epoxy resin and hardener prepared. At this stage, the most important thing is strict observance of the proportions specified in the instructions for use. Depending on the chosen design, dyes or additional decorative materials can be added to the finished mixture. Next, the resulting mixture is applied to the prepared wooden surface.

If a certain design is conceived on the tabletop from additional materials, then they must be placed on the surface of the table even before pouring. Moreover, light materials, such as wine corks or shells, must first be glued to the surface in accordance with the intended pattern. It is necessary, so that during the pouring of the mixture they do not surface, thereby turning a well-thought-out composition into a disorderly and uninteresting structure. If unwanted air bubbles appear during the pouring process, they can be removed with a building hair dryer by directing a jet of hot air to the problem area.

After grinding, it is desirable to cover the product with several layers of protective varnish. This will prevent the release of toxic substances into the atmosphere, which in small quantities may be contained in resin compositions.

Variety of options

To create a table with an original tabletop decorated with epoxy, you can take absolutely any type of tree, including a variety of fragments, cuts, chips and even sawdust, the main thing is that everything, even the tiniest particles of the future tabletop, be thoroughly dried. In epoxy resin, old and rough wood looks amazing. For decoration, you can also successfully use sea and river shells, pebbles, dry herbs and flowers, coins, and other inclusions that can give the product a special originality or a certain theme. And by mixing luminescent dyes with epoxy resin, you will create a magical glow effect.

A tree that has been eaten by bark beetles or damaged by dampness looks very unusual in resin. Natural damage filled with epoxy with the addition of dye or luminous paint can create unrealistically beautiful space patterns on the countertop. All kinds of holes, cracks and paths in wood can also be created artificially, creating your own pattern. All small holes fill with the prepared solution using a construction spatula. After curing, excess resin is removed using a grinder.

The process of manufacturing countertops by pouring is the most expensive and time-consuming, and also requires special care in work. It is used in the manufacture of countertops with attachments, as well as to create original design pieces with fantastic ideas and unusual solutions. Like the famous American designer Greg Klassen, which creates original models of tables with " natural landscapes". The “river” or “lake”, frozen in the tabletops of his amazing tables, amaze with its grandeur and incredible beauty.

About how to do wooden table with a do-it-yourself epoxy river, see the next video.

Tables have always been considered an integral part of the interior and occupied almost a dominant role, since we need them not only as an interior item, but also as a very comfortable surface that serves as a workplace for us.

An object: Glass Rivers And Lakes Flow Across Beautiful Tables
Country: United States of America (Washington)
Design: Greg Klassen(Greg Klassen)
Size: 52x19x33

Glass rivers on your table

They are different forms and sizes, in our time, an immense amount of materials from which they are made, but wood occupies the dominant role. Glass Rivers And Lakes Flow Across Beautiful Tables Beautiful Tables. A very intriguing title that gives free rein to our imagination. This is a table by Washington DC artist and furniture designer Greg Klassen who created this stylish table through which the river flows. The perfect combination natural and industrial forms. Most tables are made of maple, sometimes with the addition of walnut or birch bark. The river flowing across the table is made of glass, and the legs are made of steel.

Truly unique furniture is hard to find, Greg Klassen, the man who designs and builds all of his pieces from start to finish. For the convenience of your home, tables with glass rivers are designed different sizes; in proportion to the size of the table top, rivers flowing through the table change shape and size. The perfectly cut layer of glass that covers the river allows it to remain 100% functional, although at first glance it looks too pretty to be useful. Table surfaces with water simulation and amazing texture will give you a pleasure to work with; water you can confidently rely on).