Recent content by Chuck J

It is fun to share too...hope to get some blue and green epoxy down this weekend if the heat and humidity is not too intense.

Sanded down the shapes, with the level across from lip to lip you can see the gap over the center that will be floated with epoxy: Worked on the 'beaches' last night:

You can see here a little better, the wood shapes are 1/4" thick, and there is a 5/16" lip all the way around the table which will be the final epoxy level. I thought about making the game pieced recessed to hold the actual game pieces, but figured that would become a cleaning nightmare and as...

That is exactly my plan. I tried the sand in the trial plot two ways, first I put the sand down and poured epoxy on top, it kind of rolled off at first. So on the opposite end (top of that pic) I put epoxy first and sand on top. I think I like the first way better, but either way I kind of...

Through the heat and humidity last week I got the rest of the hexagons cut out. Finally had some time and decent weather this weekend. Got a seal coat of resin down and adhered all the hexagons yesterday. I set them with quick set epoxy, placed them a few at a time, put some heavy weight on...

We do not play Catan (or any board games) as much as we used to, but we are a bit obsessed with odd shapes and I have always loved the hexagons of the Catan board...but what is up with hexagons showing up everywhere these days...seems every company logo is being updated to incorporate hexagons???

Time is such a limitation...finally getting an opportunity to work on this project this summer... Milled down some construction grade Doug-fir to the dimensions I wanted for the frame: Cut the tabletop base from 3/4 particle board, glued and pocket screwed the edges with the desired lip to...