Rainbow River of Melted Crayons on Coffee Wooden Table

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Rainbow River of Melted Crayons on Coffee Wooden Table

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Today i will try do something new for me. I have never worked with epoxy. And i decided to make such popular "river table". As i didn't have enough experience in work with epoxy, i decided to make some small coffee table. I learned a lot of new and that was a great experience! I hope you will like the result!

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First of all i cut a table top using my edge milling machine. I used such a simple jig, it allows you to cut just a perfect circles.

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Then i draw the silhouette of the river. You can draw any silhouette you like, just let your imagination free.

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My first try unfortunately failed. I was planning that the will be lights. So i placed light and fixed them with hot glue. it looks not bad? How do you think?

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Then i selected some of my favorite crayons and melted them into the waterway. It became a little bit messy, but it's not a big deal. the most horrible thing was that the lights didn't shine as bright as i was planned. So i decided to make one more try. I melted everything away. Removed the lights.

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My little helper helps me to fill the waterway with new crayons! That was really fun) So we fill the waterway with new crayons. And then i used my heat gun and melted them.

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When the crayons melting, they are mixing their colors. You can mixed them with toothpick.

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When the wax cooled up, i scraped away the overflow wax, leveled the surface. I cleaned and covered the corners with metallic adhesive tape. So my epoxy will not run away. I also made a borders with hot gun.

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Now it's time to make epoxy and fill the waterway. I let it dry over two days

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While the epoxy was drying out, i decided to make a legs for my table. I used legs from old cracked stool. I cut out all unnecessary with my DIY MITTER SAW. (You can find the video on my channel how i made this). And sanding the legs on my DIY DISC SANDER

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I make a crosspiece for table legs

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Then i add some wood glue and fixed it with the clamps

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Now it time to sanding epoxy. After sanding i polished the surface

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I cut out all sharp edges with milling machine.

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After all i apply two coats of lacquer. And it becomes shiny and glossy :)

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The only thing i have to do, it attached table top to the legs.

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Стол Река из восковых мелков и эпоксидной смолы! Журнальный столик своими руками!

So that's all! My coffee river table is ready! That was not easy and i made some mistakes, but i think that it's not so bad for the first try)) What do you think?

So guys thanks for watching! Hope we will meet again in my new projects!