DIY Bottle Cap Table
September 19, 2013
A little over six months ago my fiance decided to start collecting beer bottle caps to be used in his newest project. When E gets on these project tangents he makes sure that he does it right, so it was quite a long, difficult task to collect hundreds of bottle caps as well as find the perfect table to complete his, you guessed it, bottle cap table. We asked all our friends and family to save their caps for us too which allowed for the table to have a wide variety of different beer selections. E had somewhere around 300 bottle caps collected which worked out great because it allowed us to throw out the flawed caps and choose the best ones considering we only used 200 of the caps. The process of making this table took about a week, but the finished product was well worth the wait.
Bottle Caps
Small Table
Wood [Used to create a border]
Polyurethane Coating
Parks Super Glaze Epoxy Resin
Caulking [Use depends on whether your table has cracks]
|| Directions are written by the table maker himself ||
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|| Directions are written by the table maker himself ||
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Well first off you need to get yourself a good table for cheap. You could make your own, but I went the route of getting one at a garage sale. The table I got was made out of simple wood, with the top being made of 2 x 6 boards. What I did was to first to seal up all the cracks with caulking that matched the wood color ( in this case brown). This would help prevent the epoxy from seeping through the cracks later on in the process. After sealing the cracks, I went about building a frame to hold to bottle caps and epoxy in place. I decided on a simple box border design, wrapping around the contours of the table. I used cheap 1 x 2 boards that we had laying around, and cut out a box frame. After using light screws to form the frame, I painted the wood with rustoleum black paint, to help seal cracks. After that, I went ahead and screwed in the four corners to the table.
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13 COMMENTS
I love it!!! :) I make coasters with Kyle's bottle caps, it's so fun. :)
ReplyDeleteIm saving bottle caps for the same thing!! It takes awhile, we want to do a whole long table!!
ReplyDeleteYours looks amazing!!
This is impressive!! It looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteCool!
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Wow, that turned out really well! I've seen so many Pinterest fails of this project, and I felt so bad for the people who waited so long to save those caps only to have something go wrong with the epoxy! So I'm glad this worked for you guys!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is so cute and crafty! My husband would love this!
ReplyDeleteThat came out so cute!
ReplyDeleteI freaking LOVE this!! Such a great job!!
ReplyDeleteOMG THAT IS SO COOOL!!!!
ReplyDeleteXO
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This is so totally cool and I just love it!!! Thank you so much for sharing and joining us at Best of the Weekend! Pinning! Hope you are having a fantastic week and look forward to seeing you this Friday.
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That is fabulous! Thanks for sharing at my Pin Me Party!
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