I need to build a large and sturdy work table for medium duty tasks (computer assembly, small appliance repair, etc). I have a large amount of rough sawn knotty oak around (I'm guessing #2 common), that I would like to utilize for this project. My thought was to plane a bunch of boards and cut them into 2.5" wide strips, then select strips with least knots on one side and glue them together so that the edges with least knots form the upside of a 2.5" thick table top. Then I would pour a layer of epoxy resin on the top to fix the knots.
I have no experience with pourable resin table tops whatsoever, so I would like to hear any feedback for this plan. For example, how wear resistant would this pourable table top coating be? Overall any reason to think that this might be a bad plan? At this point I'm really open for any suggestions inside and outside of this plan, as long as it includes using this lumber for making a heavy duty table top. The appearance is not a top concern, but it should not look entirely horrible either.
Pete