A number of years ago, I was fortunate enough to make acquaintances with a gentleman who was clearing a large fence line in our local county park as a firebreak. He was culling and selling the Cedar (Ash Juniper) logs for posts and had a couple of trees that were too large for the buyer. After talking, I offered to buy the two big tree-trunks from him to save them from going to the dump. These were large single trunk trees – which is a very rare growth pattern for these type of trees. We cut each trunk into three, approximately 3′ long, pieces and I started the air-drying process. Fast forward a number of years and I decided to make some end-tables from them and try using deep-pour epoxy. I cut 3 of the log pieces into a rough shape with my chainsaw, then made a large router sled to flatten all 6 sides parallel and square. I knew that the heart-wood of Cedar is dark red and the sap-wood is cream colored, so I thought that a blue mica-tinted epoxy would be striking. There was a natural hole in the center from rot, so I cleaned it up as I could, and got it ready to be filled with epoxy. I flipped the stump (top down) on my prepared board and mixed up 2 batches of epoxy – one of each color, lighter and darker. I alternated pouring the epoxy into the void and then let it cure. I repeated the process a couple more times, to get a thick bed. Once fully cured, I returned to my router sled to take another pass off of the top and each side to clean up and prepare for sanding. After it was sanded and i was pleased with it, I covered the entire piece in clear epoxy to seal everything up and give it a finished look. I counted the rings that I could make out and came up with over 250!