In my first foray into making an actual finished item (as opposed to framing) my son and I made a makeup table for his mother for Christmas. I also made her a lighted mirror for it.
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My issue is with mounting the mirror to the table. I had brackets made that would screw to the underside of the table and provide a support to rest the mirror against and give it kind of a "floating" look. However, when I had them made, I didn't take into account the fact that while we planed the crap out of the top of the table to get it mostly flat, the bottom of the table isn't anywhere close because my first attempt at gluing up a slab went about as well as you'd expect someone's first attempt to go. (the table has 3 coats of poly on it already)
So the bottom of the table isn't flat, smooth or possibly even totally parallel to the top, which will make mounting 4 brackets that are supposed to be perfectly in line with each other rather difficult. The brackets are 2" wide pieces of 1/8th" mild steel with a 105 degree bend so that when they are mounted with the bend facing up, the mirror can sit on them and tilt backwards.
At this point, the best notion I can come up with that doesn't involve planing the entire bottom of the table would be to attach a mounting plate of plywood to the bottom of the table with some kind of leveling compound between the plywood and tabletop to fill in space and give me a totally parallel surface to attach too.
Is there some much simpler method I'm just not thinking of? If my method seems to be the most workable, any ideas what kind of filler/leveling compound would be the best option?
If it matters, all the strips in that tabletop are face glued, so the top and bottom of the table is entirely edge-grain.