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From the part of the log, you can create an original coffee table, while retaining the texture of the source material. To emphasize it, you will need no less interesting legs. With this role, the arms of the ax will be excellent. The table itself will eventually work out smooth and becomes a decent decoration of any interior.
Materials
To create a coffee table from a tree trunk with your own hands, you will need:
- part of the tree trunk;
- saw or hacksaw;
- plane;
- Sander;
- epoxy resin;
- rag;
- thermal gun;
- sandpaper wound grain or grinding machine;
- Topor - 4 pcs.;
- marker;
- finish coating for wood;
- stationery knife;
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- drill;
- carpentry glue;
- Saws.
Step 1 . To start, take the cut part of the tree trunk. It is enough for you to contact a small local woodworking company and get a suitable size of a log piece with a bark. For transportation, so as not to spoil the cabin car, take the old bedspread or rag.
Step 2. . Carefully inspect a piece of log. In this case, his surface, which was to become a tabletop, had obvious tubercles that needed to be removed. From the bottomside there was a strongly speaker and displacement center of gravity of the protrusion. It was necessary to cut.
Step 3. . To make a worktop and end part of it perfectly smooth, use the plane.
Step 4. . The countertop must be carefully polished. Starting with paper 40, and finish fine-grained. To speed up this process, take the grinding machine and, changing the nozzles on it, treat the surface.
Step 5. . Removing from the surface of the future coffee table dust and trash remaining after grinding, proceed to the processing of epoxy resin. To start, paint her lower part of the table. Pre-working surface or floor check with a rag.
Corre Cut the layer of epoxy resin and, giving it a bit to dry, fill with all the cracks and notches. Please note that the resin will be absorbed by the pores of the tree, and therefore it will be necessary to apply two layers. Leave the worktop to complete drying. Usually it takes 48 hours.
Step 6. . Turn the countertop. Remove the glass and frozen droplets of the resin. Repeat the procedure with the surface treatment with an eposquid resin and from this side. Please note that in this case there was a natural deepening in the wood, which was completely pouring the resin. It is necessary to do it extremely careful if you want no bubbles. To do this, after the fill, blow the place with a heat fluff or propane burner. Empty fill in small layers, just a pair of centimeters, giving dry everyone. Otherwise, epoxy resin can crack. The resins will also need two layers. Keep this part will be at least 48 hours.
Step 7. . Treat toporiest. To begin with, cut them at an angle of 22 degrees. After the surface of the sandpaper and cover the protective layer of varnish or treat them with epoxy resin.
Step 8. . At the bottom of the table top, tick the location of the legs. Cut on these sections a bour with a stationery knife and put it up with a screwdriver. In the tree array itself, deeper holes for the legs make using drill and drills.
Step 9. . Fill into the holes joinery glue into the holes, insert the feet of the table and secure them with self-draws, turning them at an angle.
Step 10. . To protect the floor covering from scratches, at the ends of the legs, fix special furniture mounts.
Your original coffee table is ready!
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