Resin table top poured to resemble turquoise ocean water washing over pale sand

Custom Woodworking

Ocean-Pour Resin Table Top

A resin table top poured and worked to look like shoreline water over sand, with breaking surf along the wood edge.

ProjectOcean-Pour Resin Table Top
ServiceCustom Woodworking
LocationNot recorded — see note below
Photos4 (1 mid-build)

The problem

The brief was not a shape or a size — it was an effect. The owner wanted a surface that looked like shallow ocean water meeting a beach.

What Gary did

Gary layered tinted resin in stages so the colour shifts from deep blue through turquoise into sand, then worked white into the leading edge while the pour was still live to hold the shape of breaking foam. The cured slab was flattened and polished to a full gloss.

The result

A table top that reads as moving water from across the room and holds up to close inspection, with the foam line frozen exactly where the wood edge falls.

How it came together

In progress

Finished

Project photographs

FinishedGlossy ocean-effect resin surface reflecting the sky, with white foam worked along the shoreline edge

FinishedDark red-brown resin and wood table top with a high-gloss finish standing on a stone patio

Project location is not published because it has not been confirmed. Gary's photo archive spans more than one market and these images are not individually dated or geotagged, so no city is claimed for any single project.