This beautiful piece of swamp mahogany was purchased from Against the Grain. A great source of slabs. I needed a dictated size, which allowed me to build a slightly smaller dining room table for our home. The base of the table had to be built first, in which swamp mahogany was also used that was harvested locally about 5 years ago.
I had to build a jig and cut 1/4” slices to form a semi-circle. After gluing 10 pieces together and obtaining my desired hand sculpted shape. Not an easy feat to get curved table base as you will see in the pictures. After the base of table was completed , this being my first project having to build a mold from Melamine , the size 1/2 inch larger than planned for the top table size of 63”long by 36” wide.
As you can see in the photographs , the slab purchased was not Rectangle. In order to get it to rectangle , additional wood mahogany had to be carefully cut and added to the slab to complete a perfect rectangle table.
The next step was Epoxy pour which is the first time I’ve ever worked with. The epoxy is pure black pigment and a total of four pours needed.
Once the waiting was over and the epoxy was dried, the table needed many hours of patient sanding. Days of sanding this table to obtain the finest and smoothest table top I’ve ever built.
The table was then finished with a Rubio Monocoat.
I want to thank my supporters who have helped me immensely in getting my table built. Building a one of a kind table and never having worked with epoxy. Thank you to Against the Grain in Central Florida and You Tube Channel – Blacktail Studios for all their step by step tutorials. Without your knowledge and sharing valuable teachings for woodworkers. I could not have done this table without your help.
Here she is – our new dining room table from start to finish. It was a labor of love that took a lot of patience and determination.
Southern Carpenter 
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