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  • LCHIEN
    Internet Fact Checker
    • Dec 2002
    • 20920
    • Katy, TX, USA.
    • BT3000 vintage 1999

    glow in the dark table top

    Here's an interesting idea


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    Loring in Katy, TX USA
    If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
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  • lrr
    Established Member
    • Apr 2006
    • 380
    • Fort Collins, Colorado
    • Ryobi BT-3100

    #2
    Pretty cool. Somewhere I filed away an article on pouring a concrete picnic table. Square recesses were in the mold to provide openings in the top that looked like drink coasters for each place setting. A clear resin, or maybe a piece of clear acrylic, filled the top of the opening, and LED string lighting was strung under the top. You could use the controller to set the colors/fades, etc. which came up thru the clear openings.
    Lee

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    • phrog
      Veteran Member
      • Jul 2005
      • 1796
      • Chattanooga, TN, USA.

      #3
      Won't that kill the ambiance of the candlelight?
      Richard

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      • LCHIEN
        Internet Fact Checker
        • Dec 2002
        • 20920
        • Katy, TX, USA.
        • BT3000 vintage 1999

        #4
        Originally posted by phrog
        Won't that kill the ambiance of the candlelight?
        who needs candles when you have a glowing table?
        Loring in Katy, TX USA
        If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
        BT3 FAQ - https://www.sawdustzone.org/forum/di...sked-questions

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        • Richard in Smithville
          Veteran Member
          • Oct 2006
          • 3014
          • On the TARDIS
          • BT 3100

          #5
          Wouldn't work for me....I don't like to eat in the dark.
          From the "deep south" part of Canada

          Richard in Smithville

          http://richardspensandthings.blogspot.com/

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          • capncarl
            Veteran Member
            • Jan 2007
            • 3564
            • Leesburg Georgia USA
            • SawStop CTS

            #6
            I never thought much of working with pecky cypress, about like working with a dry sponge. Some like it though. It is abundant in my neck of the woods. Hope I am not called on to work with it! I occasionally see slabs of it 24" wide or more.
            cat

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            • gsmittle
              Veteran Member
              • Aug 2004
              • 2784
              • St. Louis, MO, USA.
              • BT 3100

              #7
              Originally posted by LCHIEN
              Here's an interesting idea
              I just finished researching radium paint and its health dangers. That glowing table top gave me the willies!

              g.
              Smit

              "Be excellent to each other."
              Bill & Ted

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              • woodturner
                Veteran Member
                • Jun 2008
                • 2047
                • Western Pennsylvania
                • General, Sears 21829, BT3100

                #8
                Originally posted by gsmittle
                I just finished researching radium paint and its health dangers. That glowing table top gave me the willies!
                I think this is photoluminescent - the material absorbs light, then radiate it when it is dark. No nuclear radiation or radium.
                --------------------------------------------------
                Electrical Engineer by day, Woodworker by night

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                • gsmittle
                  Veteran Member
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 2784
                  • St. Louis, MO, USA.
                  • BT 3100

                  #9
                  Originally posted by woodturner
                  I think this is photoluminescent - the material absorbs light, then radiate it when it is dark. No nuclear radiation or radium.
                  The last use of radium paint that I can find is around 1964. I was just amused by the coincidence of researching glow-in-the-dark paint and the glow-in-the-dark tabletop.

                  g.
                  Smit

                  "Be excellent to each other."
                  Bill & Ted

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                  • eccentrictinkerer
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2007
                    • 669
                    • Minneapolis, MN
                    • BT-3000, 21829

                    #10
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                    I just found one of those tables on the Chernobyl Craigslist!

                    Last edited by eccentrictinkerer; 01-31-2015, 11:38 PM.
                    You might think I haven't contributed much to the world, but a large number
                    of the warning labels on tools can be traced back to things I've done...

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