What are you guys using for tables for your composite work?
We have a large butcherblock style top with glass on top…unfortunatly, the wood top has warped, and I don’t really know if we CAN make it straight again.
Can I just use the wood top, and ditch the glass?
My problem is, we might need a hard surface for the pre-preg work we do.
hmm.
I built my benches out of trailer fenders…not the wheel wells but the sides…they are bent with an opposing 1" lip on each end (lengthwise) so I have a back stop and it folds over to hide the barstock frame…I wax the hell out of it and nothing sticks to it.
I also have a 4X4 melomine table top 3/4" thick…its white and non porous so if you wax that a bit nothing sticks to it either.
All of my benches and work stations were cheaply built (money wise not quality)
Rif, the butcher block tables in my classroom came from the old wood shop and the students had been carving graffitti into to them too many years.
During a summer, I rented a drum floor sander (Home Depot) and got up there and sanded it all off all 3x large trash cans full of the dust! Even the school dist. told me I couldn’t do this with a floor sander…
Then came many splash & rolled on PER surfboard resin…look great now, but give them a semester without me there…:mad:
Also you can get a sheet of HDPE or LDPE as no resin sticks these cheap sheets, they can take knife cuts (same plastic as food cutting boards) and nothing sticks to them.
Will look into all of that. Or just coating it in prepreg and cooking it 
But now just to get it flat again…seems to be impossible.
We actually might have made it worse today! shrugs
soak it in A LOT of water. put something REALLLLYYY FLAT and heavy thats bigger then the table and let it dry. might work if you dont care about the table at this point ;)… my .2$'s
I dont know if this helps but the shop I used to work at used a large “welding” table. 12’x12’ it was 12" off the floor. the steel table was level and always waxed. It was easy to clean up after a project just a scraper and then waxed again.
Granite would be good for this, although price wise its not the cheapest. Stays flat and its shiny and to clean it up just takes a good waxing. It can also be repolished if needed. Just bond it to a piece of plywood ontop of your bench with tile adhesive or silicone mastic.
Long Formica radiused edge premade table tops. I built a 2x4 frame with shelves underneath as well as drawers and then 6 rollers/casters.
Makes everything nice when it can roll.
I use a plastic white 1/4" board to do my knife work on.
i always wipe the surfaces down with the release rags before I pitch them to keep the tops free of debris sticking too !