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Now that the 2 layers are stuck together, you can use your Xacto knife to trim off edges that don't line up 100%.

What we want to do here is to create the most smooth outer surface without distorting our perfect circle shape.

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Get your kids to help you on this part :) take your paintbrush and paint the insides of the grooves and inside thickness of the foamcore sheet.

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After about 5 minutes, your table should be dry. Using water based Acrylic paint is the best but make sure to NOT water it down too much, it will WARP the table. Not good :P

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Now we can't have a white ugly table in a Evil Death Star :P Get out the same Mac Tac you used for the floor and cut out a piece that fits the table top.

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Carefully peel off the backing and apply the sticky surface to the table making sure to avoid air bubbles. Darth Vader would not be too happy about that - LOL.

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Now here is a step you need to TAKE YOUR TIME with. You have to carefully and as precisely as you can, remove the Mac Tac that covers the Control Panel Slots.

Using your V Shape Blade is the best for this task.

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15-20 minutes later, your table should look like this.

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Of course it's almost impossible to get perfect cuts everywhere, so here is a great little trick :)

Take a black marker and cover all areas that were bruised by the Xacto blade. Your table will look perfect in no time.

October 10, 2004

Next step...we need to slice into the thickness of the Lower layer in order to have a nice flush finish for our Cantrol Panels.

Get the V Blade and GENTLY slice in between the side of the foamcore. Try and slice only between the 2 arrows. Also use a NEW blade, we don't want to mess up our cuts.

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Now CAREFULLY pull up the sliced foamcore and cut it down the center.

DON'T CUT THROUGH to the other side. you don't want to have a hole in the table !!!