Dock 2 Letterpress

From time to time around the shop we get a little bored, scratch our chins and say "what else can we do?". After a quick trip to Ikea, we came up with the idea of printing posters and applying them to the tops of tables, thanks to the Ikea "LACK" end tables.

The tables here are our first attempts at doing so. They came out much better than I could have ever imagined. It tooks some testing of different adheisives, and different color combinations but what we ended up with are pretty cool (we think so anyway).

What we did was hand set and print a collage of wood type in 5 different colors, blue, green, purple, orange and black. We then argued over what colors worked best together and what would look best on the 2 different color tables. We picked the black finish and birch finished tables and headed to the hardware store to figure out how to coat them.

Pictured here are the end results. We used a product called GlazeCoat to seal in the prints on the tables. It is the same 2 part epoxy that bars and restaurants use to coat bar tops and tables. It is close to 1/8 inch think on the tops of the tables. It's a super shiny top coat, super durable, and let's the prints shine through. Each table is unique, none of the color combinations are the same. each piece is finished by hand and like all of our stuff available for sale in our Etsy shop.

We learned a lot this first time through and hope they take off so we can experiment more and make some more. We hope you like them as well.