Step 1: Selecting the Wood Material
After you place an order, we will immediately initiate the first step of the customization process: selecting wood from our curated solid wood panel library that matches the dimensions required for your epoxy resin tabletop. These panels retain unique textures such as original wood grain, knots, and natural edges.
Step 2: Layout Design
Based on your size requirements, we will use a metal frame to present the design of the epoxy table. We will take multi-angle detail photos and provide short videos to visually showcase the wood’s color, grain, and texture. Once the wood is confirmed, we will create a corresponding rendering based on your epoxy table design for preview and approval.
Step 3: Cutting Panels to Required Dimensions
After confirming the selected wood for your epoxy table, we will strictly follow the design drawings to begin cutting. We carefully remove soft parts, residual bark, and any potentially decayed areas, retaining only structurally sound solid wood core material. This step is not just cutting—it is a “purification” of materials, ensuring every inch of wood that will bond with epoxy has a stable and solid base.
Step 4: Cleaning and Sanding the Surface
After precision cutting, we perform comprehensive and meticulous sanding on each piece of wood for the natural-edge table, ensuring both sides and all natural edges achieve a perfectly smooth feel. This critical process ensures bubble-free, flawless bonding during subsequent resin pouring.
Particularly for natural edges, we apply detailed treatment: typically using progressively finer sandpaper from coarse to fine until reaching 600-grit ultra-smooth texture. Such refined sanding preserves the wood’s original texture while allowing epoxy to bond seamlessly with the edges, creating a glossy, transparent side effect.
Step 5: Securing the Frame
Once sanding is complete, craftsmen build a custom pouring mold frame strictly according to the tabletop dimensions in the design drawings. The carefully prepared raw wood panels are placed inside the frame, ensuring their natural edges and shape fully match the design intent. Hot-melt adhesive is then used to meticulously seal every joint between the wood and the mold. This seemingly minor step is crucial—it effectively prevents epoxy leakage during pouring, ensuring clean, well-defined edges after molding.
Step 6: Edge Sealing
After precise cutting and sanding, craftsmen apply 1–2 layers of specially formulated epoxy resin primer. This step, done by brushing or pouring, ensures the resin thoroughly penetrates the wood edges and fills microscopic pores. After application, the work piece rests in a temperature- and humidity-controlled clean environment for 12–18 hours, allowing the resin to reach a “semi-cured” state and form a flexible yet dense gel film. This prevents bubbles caused by resin seepage during pouring.
Step 7: Mixing the Resin
We use a bio-based epoxy resin co-developed with Entropy Resins, specifically designed for river tables. Its raw materials come from renewable resources (such as plant oils), replacing traditional petroleum-based ingredients to reduce environmental impact while maintaining epoxy performance. It offers significant advantages for wood applications, including high transparency, excellent anti-yellowing properties, fast degassing, short curing time, and eco-friendliness. Although all resins may yellow over time, for colors more prone to yellowing—such as clear—we use an “advanced transparent resin formula.”
Step 8: Pouring Epoxy Resin
During the mixing stage, we combine Part A and Part B of the epoxy resin in scientifically accurate proportions, add custom pigments for precise coloring, and use vacuum degassing equipment to completely remove micro-bubbles from the mixture—this is key to achieving crystal-clear transparency after curing. When pouring, craftsmen pour the resin slowly and evenly into the mold at a steady speed, ensuring continuous, smooth flow to minimize new bubbles. Immediately afterward, a high-temperature torch is swept across the surface to precisely eliminate any remaining tiny bubbles through controlled heating, guaranteeing a crystal-pure visual effect in the finished product.
Step 9: Waiting for Curing
After precise pouring, the table is placed in a temperature- and humidity-controlled clean room for 5–7 days to naturally complete the curing reaction. This process is not merely waiting; it is the key phase where the internal structure of the epoxy gradually crosslinks and molecular chains tightly align. Over time, the resin’s mechanical strength, heat resistance, and chemical stability continue to improve, ultimately forming a dense, stable composite layer. We respect the material’s natural transformation rhythm, patiently awaiting its metamorphosis from liquid to solid, soft to tough—delivering a piece built to withstand the test of time.
Step 10: Demolding
Once the resin has fully cured and stabilized, we carefully separate the entire epoxy tabletop from the workbench, then remove the surrounding mold frames, preparing for precision trimming and milling. This step protects the cured result while laying the foundation for subsequent surface finishing. Using professional equipment and techniques, we completely remove mold marks while preparing for the next stage of fine sanding and final shaping.
Step 11: Milling
Lumixwood Table Studio currently operates two large professional-grade CNC machines dedicated to structural shaping and surface precision control of resin river tables. First, we use a high-precision circular saw to trim the four edges and position the dimensions accurately, ensuring straight, neat edges. Next, a gantry machining center equipped with a custom diamond milling cutter head performs millimeter-level flat milling across the entire tabletop. This process treats the wood-resin composite interface simultaneously, eliminating height differences at seams and establishing a perfect flat base for fine sanding and finishing.
Step 12: Sanding
After basic milling, we sequentially use sanders with 80, 120, 150, 180, 240, and 320-grit sandpapers for progressive fine sanding, avoiding grit skipping to ensure uniform, smooth surface texture. This process not only gives the wood surface a delicate touch but also creates an ideal bonding base for the subsequent epoxy coating. A smooth surface helps the resin spread evenly, preventing bubbles and unevenness, so the cured resin layer shows enhanced clarity, purity, and superior physical properties.
Step 13: Epoxy Sealing Layer
After fine preparation of the wood base, we pour a high-transparency epoxy coating onto the tabletop surface. Through precise mixing ratios and constant-temperature curing, the resin forms a crystal-clear visual interface, fully preserving and highlighting the natural wood grain and color gradation. This coating also provides excellent physical performance—surface hardness reaches above 5H, offering wear resistance, scratch resistance, and protection against daily chemicals. Under light, the resin layer refracts a warm luster, making the wood grain appear to float in three-dimensional beauty, harmonizing artistic expression with practical protection.
Step 14: Surface Treatment
After fine sanding, we apply multiple gradient coats of environmentally friendly water-based paint. Each coat is applied in a temperature- and humidity-controlled environment, forming a dense yet transparent protective layer. This not only gives the wood surface a jade-like smoothness but also effectively resists daily scratches, liquid penetration, and UV damage. The paint film maintains the natural breathability of the wood grain, keeping the tactile experience close to nature, achieving a perfect balance between long-term protection and authentic texture.
Step 15: Polishing
In the polishing process, craftsmen use a professional high-speed polisher with different grades of polishing wax and compounds for progressive refinement. By moving from coarse to fine abrasives, we remove tiny particles and micro-scratches from the painted surface, eventually forming a dense, glossy protective layer. This process not only gives the tabletop a mirror-like clarity but also significantly enhances stain resistance and durability.
Step 16: Final Inspection and Packaging
In the final quality control stage, our professional QC team systematically checks every detail of the finished product: resin layer transparency, smoothness at the wood-resin joint, edge and corner sanding precision, paint uniformity, and overall structural stability. We maintain a “zero tolerance” standard, ensuring each piece meets design promises in aesthetics, craftsmanship, and long-term durability before delivering this art piece, born of skill and time, into your hands.
Step 17: Shipping Packaging
To ensure absolute safety during transport, we use a four-layer professional-grade protective packaging system:
- Custom EVA edge and corner guards tightly wrap the table edges.
- High-density pearl cotton provides full-surface cushioning.
- Thickened five-layer corrugated cardboard boxes with reinforced paper corners offer structural reinforcement.
- The entire assembly is placed inside a custom wooden crate equipped with shock-absorbing brackets and humidity control devices.
This protective system has passed multiple simulated transportation tests, effectively resisting handling shocks, temperature/humidity changes, and accidental impacts—ensuring the artwork arrives at your space in perfect condition