Post #726886 by Anestiki on Thu, Sep 4, 2014 11:01 AM

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