Bar Top

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by swarmee

*double post*

Second coat of shellac

[wolf441]

I have a friend that did this (going the polyurethane route) with the Ted Williams set from 1994. The cards are worthless anyway and it makes a really cool bar top display with players covering multiple eras.

[Dpoolem3]

I owned a large pool hall some years back

and we did the epoxy route for one of the bars and put money instead of cards in the bar top...turned out great, the bills looked just like they looked before the epoxy(or whatever it was they poured over them to form a thick barrier between the paper money and coins embedded in the bar

[MarcosCards]

Thanks for your feedback guys. I think I’m going to test the polyurethane technique with some junk cards in a small, shallow plywood tray. I suspect that, like with any project, I’ll make mistakes on my first try. I’ve also read that, for some reason, small bubbles slowly appear in the acrylic — and need to be watched for and popped with a needle.

When I complete the final project, I’ll be sure to post photos of my man cave’s new bar top!

[Dpoolem3]

When we did ours

we used a hair dryer to smooth it out and get bubbles out....don't ask me how, I am allergic to the president of mexico Manual Labor, but one of my arcade techs built it and I remember him down there with a hair dryer smoothing it out and getting bubbles out