Recommendation For Paint Table Surface

melamine would be fine and if you put a couple coats of automotive wax on it and buff between coats it will make clean up real easy.

 

Formica is what I have. Used it for years. Scrapes off easy and that includes epoxies.

 

UHMW if you can afford it.

 

Laminate counter top cheap and cleans up easy with thinner and or razor blade

 

I have a cleanable surface and I'm too lazy to clean it! It's a painting table. All those colors piled up through the years add character! I choose to leave the "patina" ha!

 

Yes the table top and floor ,Woodstock revisited.

 

As a part time taxidermist and a full time chemist at a chemical manufacturing facility; my favorite material for tabletop surfaces is HDPE. High Density Polyethylene, This is the same plastic most of the nice cutting boards cabela's sells are cut from. You can order it from US Plastics or several other vendors. HDPE may be a bit more expensive than some other work surfaces but in my opinion it is a top quality choice. Paint, glue, bondo etc. clean off very easily. Work benches at work and home are either 3/4 cdx plywood covered with HDPE or conventional counter top covered with HDPE. This particular plastic is heat sensitive and can melt if subjected to extreme heat but other than that it is chemically impervious and very nice to work with and on. This is nearly the same as the UHMW Cory mentioned earlier.

 

I have a formica table that serves as my everything table I clamp my fish hang on it to do my fish and skinning deer to fish on the same tables.

 

I found a tabletop covered with a stainless steel sheet years ago and that's what I use for everything. Fish Birds deer and small mammals. Can't beat it. Good luck JL