Bottle Cap Table with Poured Resin Surface

Step 2: Find the table.

You can do this on any sized surface. I've seen huge bars covered in pennies or old photos, but unless you want to deal with storing wheelbarrows of bottle caps, a bistro-sized or small end table is good for starters.

We used a Noresund IKEA table purchased in the As Is area at our local IKEA. I believe it is now discontinued. Sorry.

Link to Ikea store: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/10073835

Comments

[Kryptonite]

I have a table that's 4 metres by 1.5 metres... if only there was enough bottle caps on this Earth.

[americangypsy]

See Step 1 -- and drink more beer! Seriously, every time I went to a party, I used to gather up all the bottle caps I could find. I'd walk around all night with jangly pockets. But you're right -- it's a bit of a compulsion. But I've seen entire bars covered with pennies, and I've thought about doing something covered in playing cards. Wine labels, old photos, glass mosaic -- you can do this project with lots of things. I just thought bottle caps would look cool, but get creative about things that might be more readily available.

[arualanne]

I did a coat once where I flattened out bottle caps and sewed them on like scale mail over it. I got my caps, not by drinking more beer, but asking the bar tender at Ruby Tuesdays to save the caps for me and providing a bucket for them to be thrown into. Of course it was a lot of clean up and it stank when I got it, but It provided all the caps I needed. I think I ended up sewing on more than 300 caps.

[Kryptonite]

I'm 14.

But I can deffinitely take a hint from your first idea!
XD

Yeah I used to collect _^steal joker cards, but I've lost them now, do you think they'd make a good idea?

[russian5]

Haha, that never stopped me from drinking beer. Not that I'm suggesting that you follow in my footsteps, but "it's not illegal if you don't get caught".

[Kryptonite]

 Hehe, that's my motto with a lot of things, but my liver doesn't think so.

[EuropeanAmerican]

According to my latest blood test, my liver agrees with yours >_<

[Kryptonite]

Ooh, damn. I had my first glass of alcoholic drink today. Our pineapple juice had been left too long and had fermented!!! Man my head hurts.

[EuropeanAmerican]

Your head probably hurts because of the ethanol. If you drink too much, you'll go blind. That's why making liquor, as opposed to beer and wine, is dangerous.

[Kryptonite]

Well a glass shouldn't be too bad... I hope.