I picked up this piece of scrape wood from a sawmill we visited a few years ago with the idea of doing something with it one day. I think it may be walnut but not sure. It was warped pretty badly & I knew that it would need to be planed before any finish work could be attempted. I finally bought a planer & passed it through a number of times to level it out. After that, sanding & filling the cracks with resin eventually completed the project. FIlling the pinholes took amny applications over a couple of weeks. So this attempt was a good learning experience as the wood was not the easiest piece to work with but in the end, it turned out nice.

I had to make a mold for the resin application. I purchased resin tape & cut a few pieces of particle board for the base & used clamps to hold it together. It worked well. Even though I had a good flet work space, I still had to weigh the board down just to get it completely flat.

I then was able to start pouring the resin in. I had to reposition the mold & clamps to fill the cracks on the ends.

I used Odie’s Oil for the finish as it’s a non-toxic, food grade, all natural oil.