Round Tabletop and Base

ONE: TABLE BASE FORMING

Video Overview

See how the form for this outdoor table base is created. The base will have 3/4-inch thick walls and be 27 inches tall. The mold is complicated because of the curve of the base. A CAD file is sent to a foam fabricator who makes the mold with a CNC machine and coats it in epoxy resin

Step 1 – Design Details

  • The original design needed to support a 2″ concrete tabletop with an integrated lazy susan in the center.
  • The original table base was wet-cast and needed to be anchored to the floor.
  • In the following project, the table mold has been re-used with a fiber-reinforced concrete mix, and it doesn’t need to support such a massive tabletop, so the finished table base weighs a lot less and is considerably easier to form up.
  • In the original pour, the form would have been bolted together and cast as one piece.
  • For the fiber-reinforced version, each half is sprayed separately, and then the two halves of the form are screwed together and the structural backing mix is packed in by hand.

Step 2 – Foam and Epoxy Mold

  • Each half of the mold was modeled in the computer, and from a CAD file, a CNC router cut the foam to the right shape.
  • The foam was then finished with an epoxy and sanded by hand.
  • The outside of the foam is boxed together with 3/4″ plywood to provide structure and help the form register when the two halves are put together.
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Each half of the form is initially cast separately to allow efficient placement of the fiber reinforced concrete mix before the forms  are seamed together.