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    Resin to the Rescue

    Dec 29, 2020 5 minutes
    By Rob Johnstone

    One of my favorite country songs (and I have many) has a verse that goes, “I’m just an old chunk of coal, but I’m gonna be a diamond someday.” I love that verse for so many reasons, but I was thinking of it when I found this piece of maple lumber that was really, well, awful. It was spalted, fractured and had a bow along its length. But it also had a fascinating shape with curious and intricate details. A chunk of coal indeed.

    Around the time that I was thinking about the board, I also learned about a deep pour epoxy resin product from Timber Cast. The two seemed made for each other, and I decided to make the board into a coffee table. The next question was how would I go about that. At first I thought I would just fill in

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