How to Make a Table With Clear Poly Resin

Create a modern, clear poly resin table. Use your small poly resin table as a coffee table, end table or just a conversation piece. For an extra hip look, you can keep your poly resin tabletop clear or, for a more artistic look, you can add decorative items to your poly resin while it's hardening inside its mold. Use polyester resin for your table instead of polyurethane or epoxy resins, since polyester resin is better suited for large projects with thicknesses exceeding 1/2 inch. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

1

Mix your polyester resin inside your large bowl, following your resins packaging instructions.

2

Pour your resin mixture into the cookie sheet, filling it to the top of the cookie sheets edges or to at least 1 inch of thickness. Spray your filled cookie sheet with your resin setting spray and then allow it to sit for up to three days or however long your resins instructions direct.

3

Paint your dowels and newel stair posts during this waiting period; youll want to paint your dowels since theyll be visible through your clear tabletop. Allow your painted items to completely dry.

4

Turn over your resin-filled cookie sheet and pop out the hardened resin. If it doesnt fall out easily, try peeling back the cookie sheet by the edges.

5

Fit your stair posts to the edges of your resin tabletop, matching the edges neatly. Draw around the stair posts with your dry erase marker. Mark the center of the squares you just drew.

6

Drill into the center marks you made, going all the way through the table top. Wipe away all your marks.

7

Drill into the center of your newel posts, going an inch into the posts. Insert your dowels into the holes you just drilled. Lightly hammer your dowels into the posts to firmly embed them.

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Insert the emerging ends of the dowels into the holes you drilled into your poly resin tabletop. Firmly embed them into the tabletop to complete your poly resin table project.