A river table's cost will vary based on the wood type you use and amount of epoxy you need. For a dining room table, you'll typically spend $400-$1200 on the live edge slab, and up to $1200 on the epoxy, as it costs about $80 per gallon. The average river table we build costs around $2000 before labor.

This will give you the approximate volume of the river in cubic inches. There are 231 cubic inches in a gallon. Example. A table with an epoxy resin river of 10.75 inches by 10.75 inches that was 2 inches deep, would require about 1 gallon of epoxy.

Why is Epoxy So Expensive? Epoxy resin is more expensive to make than other types of resin. This is because the materials needed to produce epoxy resin cost a lot more than other low-end resins. In addition, the process of producing it is more complicated because there's a low tolerance for errors.

Epoxy tables have surprising compressive strength, which refers to the ability of a particular material to bear weight. Just how strong is epoxy resin table coating? An epoxy coating wood table can handle roughly 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi), though some manufacturers can create tables that are even stronger.