Round stone top came unglued from a friend’s outdoor table base, fell off, and broke. This was at his house in the Bay Area where I was staying.
I took it to another friend’s place. We used clear epoxy and a clamp to glue the pieces back together, filled the cracks and missing bits with more clear epoxy, sanded the epoxy to dull the gloss. Cut a round of 5/8” marine plywood, set T-serts into the wood to bolt the table legs to, used construction cement to glue the wood to the underside of the stone top, applied Varathane to the wood, bolted the table base to the wood, and I brought the repaired table back to friend #1’s house.
When I entered the house, there was a big shout of “Surprise”. My wife had arranged a surprise 60th birthday party for me, and all my Bay Area friends were there! One guy even drove up from Santa Barbara.
I had been happy spending my 60th in friend #2’s workshop doing a project with him, but the party was a nice bonus.
Here’s the table, before the final crack filling and sanding that we did the next day.
Here’s a couple random shots from the party. The weather cooperated, which was good as a rain-free day is hardly a given in the Bay Area this spring!
Here’s the table after the final filling and sanding.
After that I went down to L.A. to see some friends. One of them, who was my surrogate mother in L.A. when my wife and I lived there in the 80s/90s, gave me a couple slides of my wife and I when I was 28 yo and my bride was 31 yo.
Damn that was a long time ago.