During the summer of 2020 I was laid up from foot surgery and couldn’t work. There’s only so much sitting around I can do, so I decided to work on this project for my house. My wife had found a tall cafe table to put near our pool table, and we decided to give it a bottle-cap top. My first step was to router out the original top of the table to the proper depth, then sand it down and paint it black. After that, I began installing caps in a hexagonal pattern, working outwards from the center, securing each cap in place with clear silicone caulk.

After I had installed all the caps, I covered them all with an epoxy pour.

A close up of the caps

Here is the finished product. After the epoxy had fully cured, I sanded out any imperfections, restained and sealed the wood edge, and then polished and buffed the top to a gloss finish.