Reddit reviews Crystal Clear Bar Table Top Epoxy Resin Coating for Wood Tabletop - 2 Gallon Kit
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Designed for Table Tops, Bars, Wood finishes, See-Through Encapsulations, Art work, and other applicationsSelf Leveling and High Gloss U.V. Resistant FormulaProduces a Tough, High Gloss, Water Resistant CoatingEliminates Craters, Crawling and Fish EyesBlush Resistant. A total of 2 gallon combined
This stuff I found on amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Clear-Table-Coating-Tabletop/dp/B01M1RAW6D
The EcoPoxy stuff he recommends in the video is about twice the price for a similar volume. It looks like he had a much bigger volume than I do, mine is less than an inch deep and only ~6 or 8 inches across the epoxy bit.
If you want to stick with wood there are ways to paint it to have a metal look for the frame, heres an end product example I found. I imagine there a tutorials on youtube. https://www.bowerpowerblog.com/x-based-console-table/
Dowel and glue as much as you can while keeping the pieces manageable. I like threaded inserts between parts that will be assembled and disassembled for transport. Like if the top is to be separated from the base.
In conjunction with the dowels connecting the top you could use something like this If you want to keep the top in 2 or 3 manageable sections for transport
https://www.woodcraft.com/products/joint-connector-small-2-1-2-to-3-1-4
To help protect the top of the wood desk, consider an epoxy.
I recently used this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M1RAW6D on a recent project ( https://imgur.com/gallery/pP0qznn ) and have been happy with it's durability. I did go a lot thicker than necessary. But as it gets the inevitable scratches over time theres more than enough to sand and polish them out instead of stripping back to wood and recoating.
Amazon heres a link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1RAW6D/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_z7V7CbF9ZS93V