There must be better ways to do this but the dollar store pot i've been using to melt doesn't allow for much precision, so it just gets everywhere and then solidifies within a second or two. With such a short set time, tons of bubbles just under the surface are inevitable, but a pass with a heat gun and a smaller second pour minimizes them - nice thing about sulfur vs. epoxy is if you don't like how things are going you can always remelt it and try again. Some kind of vibrating table arrangement might reduce the need for a second pass but there was no time to try it for this one. Then just sanding, hours and hours of sanding.

This one still got that gross fresh tattoo look but this is about as good as progress pictures get. it's about to look way nastier, and unreadable, for a couple days as i put in the sulfur layer and sand it down until it looks fancy and not like a troll came on it

going to work on a silly one

Fitting an old thing to another old thing = new thing? Must investigate

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You can't see it in these murky cellphone photos but this was a pretty nice piece of sycamore scavenged from another furniture maker's burn pile. Badly warped when I got it, flattened there was only about a 1/2" thick slice of wood there, but a single 18"x50" slab of quartersawn; I don't even wanna think about how old the original tree must have been. As a first try at the collapsing-leg quick-release system shown below, it was kinda eh as a table and has been supplanted by more developed examples, but the top was still a pretty nice piece of wood so I'm glad it found a second life here.