Resin wood tables

[Gazza-1971]

whats the best water density in the wood you use - i can get my hands on stuff but was confused about how much it needs to be kiln dried

[Lazurus]

For the spheres that I turn I just use air dried timber, usually burrs, I guess it depends on what you are doing and how stable the wood is as if it is a river table or shelf if the wood was to shrink it may pull away from the resin - If I was doing a table I would do the usual of keeping the wood in the room the table was going to be used in for a couple of weeks or so to stabilise, other wise I would aim for 10 - 12% if the location is unknown.

[nepia]

I have a table with resin inserts.  Time hasn't pulled the resin away from the wood but as the wood has dried to indoor humidity levels rather than outdoor and under cover levels the surface has become fractionally uneven with the resin standing very slightly proud.  But there's no evidence of lateral shrinkage pulling the wood off the resin.  The wood is yew.

[Lazurus]

Yew is inherintly one of the most stable woods when drying I have found, also it is a great choice due to colour and grain for this type of furniture, one of my favorite timbers to work with.

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys ,it was me that made the table for Jon , shame about the shrinkage Jon sorry that happened,how is the glow in the dark , just making another yew resin table but not using glow in the dark

[nepia]

No apology needed Mark; your workshop isn't centrally heated!  And the shrinkage really is minute; I only mentioned it to make the point that it can happen; you can barely see it - you have to run your hand over the surface to notice.

The glow's still great. It's a regular talking point; I love making the wife turn Strictly off so I can darken the room to show off the table!

 

[Ratman]

You guys got any pics to shows us then?

[nepia]

I'll put the table in the window tomorrow to get better light and fully charge the glow; it's a bit faint in this weather away from the window.  It still glows a bit though.

[se7enthdevil]

6 minutes ago, nepia said:

I'll put the table in the window tomorrow to get better light and fully charge the glow; it's a bit faint in this weather away from the window.  It still glows a bit though.

get a blacklight torch and charge it that way jon....

 

it does a much better job than daylight.

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys the glow in the dark is so bloody hard to photograph so I don’t have any pictures unfortunately hopefully Jon can take some tomorrow 

Cheers Mark