This was a fun (and extremely fast) little side project and my first experience with epoxy resin. Some friends that we spend time with at our lake house every year requested a custom beer pong table, and I came up with this design.

First I created an SVG of the lake using an export from OpenStreetMap and some depth contours from another site (which may or may not have been completely made up, but looked reasonable enough to me). Then I cut all of the lake edges on a piece of white oak plywood with my Shaper Origin, and used a regular router to clear all the material from each layer.

Then I poured a deep pour epoxy with blue and green transparent dye (black and blue for the text portion), used a thrown-together mini router sled to flatten everything, sanded, and finished with Odie’s Oil (my first time using that product as well). The underside has an oak plywood apron and folding metal table legs for easy storage.

I knew the combination of plywood and epoxy was going to be a tough one, since there was little room for error in the flattening and sanding process, and indeed I sanded through the plywood oak veneer in a few spots. But for a 4 day project it serves it’s use case well!