09/08/2026
Happy back-to-the-grind, post-Labor Day! Hope you all had a great long weekend and found some water to put your feet in… or maybe some lava and a glass full of b**r. Now let’s build something!
Some projects are complicated. And then there’s pouring a massive river of glowing lava through black walnut and just hoping chemistry behaves itself.
We built this beast back in 2018 for Incendiary Brewing in the old Bailey Power Plant in downtown Winston-Salem.
Instead of the typical epoxy river table, we figured a brewery called Incendiary, sitting next to the old coal pit of a power plant, probably needed something a little more… on fire.
So, lava.
The live edge of the black walnut creates the path for the backlit “lava” running through the bar top. Which sounds simple enough, except a pour this big is anything but. Mixing ratios had to be dead on, temperatures had to stay consistent, bubbles had to be dealt with and then we had to wait for the whole thing to cure and hope it did what it was supposed to do.
Epoxy does not care about your schedule.
We also wrapped that massive column and built what was, at the time, the biggest table we’d ever made. A 26 FOOT community table.
And then we had to get it there.
Down the road from our shop, into Bailey Power Plant, down a flight of stairs and somehow into place. It took a lot of people, a lot of careful maneuvering and probably some words we won’t repeat here.
Almost 8 years later, people are still gathering around it, drinking b**r, spilling b**r and putting all that walnut to work.
We’re happy this project brought us a few great employees over the years. Still one of the coolest things we’ve built. 🔥
