Just showing off my finished bar top. It starts with the finished top and then shows how it was made. I hope everyone enjoys it. More pictures of the entire bar will be to follow when it is done. Keep an eye out for Blake's Bahooka in the Home Bar section.
Anestiki
Planks of staggered Red oak glued together
Flush trimmed with router 3 layers of bartop
Cut out pattern of river with a jigsaw (same pattern but back 2 inches was cut on middle board to for channel for LED strips
Blue veneer for water effect
All 3 layers together (notice small channel in 2nd layer
building up layers of silicone to make mold for when I pour epoxy
stained wood with water based black cherry stain
1st layer of aeromarine 300/21 epoxy used a total of 12 gallons total!
added glass rocks, moai acrylic heads, etc during different pours to give it multilayered effect
glow in the dark tiki figure embedded at end of river
aku aku and stardust casino token in river too
finished product after 3 flood coats and let it cure for 1 week
flipped over bar top and routed from underside along river predrawn to open up empty channel
Had to pull out silicone so LED lights would shine through (didn't bind epoxy, but was hard to get off the wood.)
I used a dremel saw to cut right down on top of silicone and then pulled it off
Adding LED lights (Phillips HUE lighting) from underside, then put onto baseboard on bar
