I built this with Dead Backyard Trees

In this video I take slabs from a dead tree (spalted maple) from out back of our house also a black locust root base and turn them in to a dining table resulting in one of my coolest projects to date!

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:19 What is Spalted Maple
0:49 Laying out top
1:28 Cutting off live edges
2:17 Flattening on planer sled
2:43 Making oval Epoxy Mold and Template
3:14 Table Glue up
3:36 Cutting Oval Table
3:54 My love/hate relationship with epoxy
4:54 Prepping for the epoxy
5:43 Pouring epoxy
6:54 Removing epoxy table from mold
7:14 Trick to remove excess epoxy fast
8:00 prepping for finish
8:23 huge problem
8:56 Finishing spalted maple table
9:46 Root Base for Table
10:06 cutting tree root for base
11:30 Cleaning up and finishing root
13:02 Attaching Root base to table top
13:27 The Reveal