Industrial Designer Mat Brown creates glowing shelves by filling naturally formed voids in Chestnut planks with a photoluminescent resin. Mat Brown and Mike Warren are two different designers who have recently worked with this technique to great effect – and are sharing their secrets for creating this ‘glow wood’. He enjoyed designing and making furniture.By mixing a phosphorescent powder with resin and the filling in the cracks and knotholes that naturally occur in wood materials, you can create beautiful surfaces that illuminate after being charged by sunlight. So if you are into that sort of DIY hobby, you can expand and have a lot of fun creating your own designs to go with this table. This process can be used for any number of woodworking projects. The amount of sunlight that the table gets will affect the length of time the glow will last after dark.

Mike recommends placing the table either outside or in a room where it will get plenty of sunlight. The table is finished off with pre-made metal legs. Chipping the rot out of the lumber may be a bit tedious, but the result is worth the time spent. There are quite a few other steps in there to get to a finished table, but you can find complete instructions here, on the Instructables website. He started with some cutting and sanding, and then removed the rot and debrided the resulting holes to fill them with the resin and powder mix. This turns crappy wood into a great finished product.

This wood is from regular cypress trees that have been infested with fungus. He chose pecky cypress wood for the project. This cool project was designed by Mikeasaurus at Instructables.

Wood, and a mix of clear casting resin and blue glow in the dark powder,

Teacher) being all over this awesome Glow Table. There are some cool things out there for those who like to DIY and this

Glow in the dark resin wood table