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dstraate
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:46pm
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Hello All,
Finally set down a counter top on the cabinets that I pulled from a demo. Right now it's just river rocks in thinset.
Another forum member mentioned using poly acrylic as a finisher, but I can't seem to find anything about products or specific application on the web. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this and would mind giving me a couple sentences to shout out a product and a basic idea on how/why to apply it. Might get a chance to do this project Friday night (Yee Haw!)
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Montanan
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:28pm
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I'm not sure if this is what the other post was talking about, but we're doing a bar top with bottle caps and it will be finished with a clear epoxy that your pour in as liquid and then it sets up as solid. It will hopefully look as good as this:
botte cap table in epoxy
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Another example of the clear coat look we're trying to achieve.
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Montanan
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:29pm
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P.S. The product used here was "US Composites Kleer Kote table top epoxy." We haven't tried it yet.
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Montanan
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# Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:40pm
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Here's a link to another approach to finishing/sealing a river rock counter:
http://sixbusyrabbits.blogspot.com/2010/07/countertop-river-rocks-and-oak-trees.html
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dstraate
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:16pm
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Thank you much, I really love the job the busy rabbits did. Mine is a bit more, rugged, err, rustic, err natural. (Trying to figure out what to tell the wife)
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bobbotron
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:07pm
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If you do epoxy, make sure the ambient temperature is good, and wear a respirator. That's a big surface, you'd get a ton of off gassing.
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Bevis
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# Posted: 17 Oct 2012 06:58pm
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Montanan, yes that is what I was talking about in the other post.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:51am
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We want to do this on a table top we need to make-any suggestions or helpful hints? I'm guessing it takes a while to cure so probably a project that is gonna have to wait for warmer temps in the cabin again(after we leave).
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dstraate
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# Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:07am
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Alright, I guess we're going with Aqua Mix Gold Sealer, and gray grout. I'll be back with pictures Tuesday.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:10am
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Good luck!!!! Hope it goes smoothly 
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Montanan
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# Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:02pm
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Looking forward to seeing the photos! Here's another cool look, I think:
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:54pm - Edited by: trollbridge
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That is cool. What we are going to do is a tabletop that in the center will have an old bucksaw blade and a bunch of old square head nails scattered around-maybe some other stuff too. It is a table that originally had a glass insert for the top but when I bought it at a yard sale it was missing the glass.
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