Fresh Brew Woodworks?

So who exactly is Fresh Brew Woodworks? Well, we are a small but thriving woodshop located on the outskirts of Louisville, KY near the Brooks exit on south 65. We currently are not a open to the public, but we are looking for a location to make ourself a name out of of. One with a front showroom and woodshop in the back. Hopefully by the beginning of 2025 we will have ourselves a location and start the move. We’ll keep our website up to date on how that’s coming along.

Who owns Fresh Brew brew Woodworks?

Well that would be me, my name is Ryan Dame', I’m 33 years old,

I’ve been working

with callouses on my

hands all my life,

from landscaping, to restoration on homes, to masonry, if its hands on,

I’ve more than likely have had 5+ years experience.

“Why did you create Fresh Brew Woodworks?”

“I started F.B.W. in the early spring of 2023 building Wooden American Flags. I had just finished building a wooden carport at the end of the driveway and decided on using Cabot’s Moonlit Mahogany outdoor stain and immediately fell in love with how staining wood looked. The beauty in the wood grain as it popped out of dull yellow pine into this beauty dark mahogany of a color I just found myself wanting to learn more. And so I did. The early days I was making just small home decor signs, not one sold, and thats okay because if they had, perhaps I wopuld’t be on the path I’ve found myself walking down today with the river table builds. It was when I built my first wooden American flag and it sold the very same day for $100, since that day forward, nearly two years ago its been a non-stop roller coaster of mostly ups and very seldom downs.

Here at fresh brew Woodworks, we’re not some big fancy big and expensive company, no, we’re still small. A total of two employees, and a husky-lab thats talks way too much sass to be normal. But because we’re small, we’re more tedious and caring about each and every project we work on. Our clients are our top priority and guranteeing 110% satisfaction is our only goal. Read a little bit moire to hear asbout whart we have to offer and learn some of the steps it takes to use epoxy resin correctly and how the process plays out. Click the email button up top anytime to email me directly with any questions. We appreciate you for visiting our website, if you have any opinions or comments to share on how we can better our site please don’t hesitate, let us know. one day we hope to be a big wig but for now, we’re Fresh Brew Woodworks, a small woodshop granting big décor wishes. Thanks

“-Ryan- Owner- Fresh Brew Woodworks”

What we offer:

Hardwoods: Walnut, Maple, Spalted Maple, Oak, Red Oak, Cedar, Poplar, Pine

Live Edge:

River Tables, Tables Large or Small, Floating Shelves, Desks, Etc.

Custom Carpentry: Anything you may want custom built, we'll go over the plans together and will have you along for each and every step throughout the build including picture updates..

Epoxy Resin: Whether it be matte, satin or the favorable, dripping wet mirror shine, epoxy resin is the way to go! Unlike other finishes, such as wipe on oils, polyurethane, lacquer, shellac, epoxy resin is a bit tricky to finish correctly if one has little to no experience. Air bubbles, dust, dog hair and unevenness threaten the outcome of any epoxy project but here at Fresh Brew Woodworks, with nearly 2 years and upwards to 75 gallons worth of epoxy pouring’s, we have the experience needed for one to achieve that flawless, desired look that only a 1/4” thick layer of clear epoxy resin can produce.

Deep Pour Epoxy Resin: For all our river tables and other projects requiring a layer of epoxy with a thickness greater that 1/4”, we use a deep pour epoxy resin made by EPODEX. Mix ratio is 2:1. Two parts resin, mixed with 1 part hardener. Work time can take upwards to 16 hours before it sets up. This allows plenty of time for any air bubbles to rise to the surface. A light swipe of a torch or heat gun to pop any air bubbles throughout the set up time window. Handle time is roughly 2 days, this is when you can touch the epoxy without it deforming. 3-4 days it’ll be hard enough to where you can’t push your thumb nail into. 7-12 days its cured enough for flattening and sanding.

The key to epoxy resin is time. Time, time, time! Patience is a virture truly with this stuff. If you try to be haste and skip a step, you’ll be left with an expensive mess and a ruined project. So for those who have watched YouTube and think this stuff is a cake walk, well let me say, that’s exactly what I used to think 2 years ago, and I can’t count the amount of wasted product i lost in the first 6 months because I wanted to hurry up and pour some awesome, metallic galaxy exploding on each other resin inside a half decent form made from hot glue….. Things have come a long way around here. With that being said, if you’re interested in giving epoxy a try for yourself, if you have any questions, please feel free to send us an email, we’ll be more than happy to answer any questions. We love the magic epoxy brings to the world, the art, the creativity and we encourage people to give it a try, if every step is done correctly, the end result is pretty rewarding.

Tabletop Epoxy Resin: There’s two kinds of epoxy on the market. There’s deep pour epoxy and then there’s tabletop/bar top epoxy resin. This is the resin that one will use when finishing a project. Tabletop epoxy is a 1:1 mix ratio, its much thicker than deep pour and has a work time of roughly 25-30 minutes. Since this epoxy is thick like mollasses on a cold winter evening in maple leaf country cananda, it makes it self leveling, so making sure you’re surface is level before pouring. Air bubbles will get caught if prior sealing isnt applied to the surface before pouring. Tabletop epoxy is pour in 3 stages. #1 is a seal coat, only enough epoxy to cover the surface, just to make it wet enough with epoxy so that it’ll seal the projects surface, this way in 3 hours time a first flood coat can be applied. #2 the first flood coat is a heavy epoxy pour that’ll cover an entire project with anywhere from 1/8-1/4'“ of epoxy. This is when that seal coat comes in handy if you’re pouring onto a wood surface. It must be done with the first 3 -4 hours aftewr the seal coat or you’ll end up having to wait until the seal coat is cured, usually 24 hours, so that it can be sanded so that the first flood coat has something to attach to. Epoxy has the tendacy to pop off of slick items, this is the reason why we use polymere tyvek roofing tape as a underlayment for the epoxy to be poured onto. Epoxy pops right off when its fully cured and harnendd. #3 the final flood coat is the last pour, well hopefully, theres been times where 4 even 5 pours total was needed on some surfaces that just dont want to stop drinking the epoxy dry in small areas creating a dip in the finish. Genereally though, 3 pours is all it take to finish a project with epoxy. You’ll end with a mirror, high gloss shine that may or may not be perfect. If any dust or debris drifted in and got itself stuck, its a whole new ball game to fix it. It involes sanding from 400-4000 grit sandpaper and a whole lot of expensive 3m polishing compounds with a polisher to bring it to a flawless, debrisless mirror shine again.

Refinish: We can Refinish any piece of loved furniture who shine, luster and color has faded throughout the years and bring it back to life. We mostly use Minwax for all our stains and polyurethane for indoor finishes and spar urethane for outdoor finishes. Epoxy Resin is also an option for indoor/shaded outdoor finishes.

Lichtenberg Burning: We're now fractal burning!! For those of you who are new to the term, it's when upwards to 15,0000 volts of electricity is passed through wood leaving incredible electric patterns that can be colored with epoxy resin leaving a truly one of a kind, remarkable, head turning show piece.

Fresh Brew Woodworks - “Premium Custom Carpentry for the Home or Office”

Building Wow Since June 2023

-Ryan-