The Secrets That No One Told You About When Using Resin
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Hi Everyone. if you are new to using resin or in need of a refresher on some areas then this is the video for you. I demonstrate 15 secrets that no one told you about using resin that I wish I had known before I started using resin. These will not only save you time, but also money and failed projects.
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The Secrets That No One Told You About When Using Resin
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Resin is an industrial chemical and as such should always be treated with respect and the manufacturers safety advice taken. Here is a video I have made on how I keep myself safe: • Stop Making Yourself I... - Навчання та стиль
Fun Tip: If you use a big silicon mat like the one Steve showed, you can make "resin sprinkles" with leftover resin from your pours. Just scrape out your pot of tinted resin (or put a little pinch of mica to color clear resin). Then make tiny drops of resin or even lines of resin directly on your resin mat. Let it cure then pop it off with tweezers or just a fingernail. Store your "sprinkles" in a little pot to use in future resin projects. If you have enough leftover resin, you can even use a pipette to write letters, symbols, or just doodles on the silicon mat... let it cure and pick it off when it's hard enough.
Very cool
Wow that’s a great idea, I never would have thought of doing the letters with a pipette thanks for that tip Amy 👍🏼
I have a mold of tiny letters that I got from the craft store that I always keep next to me when resining. I pipe left over resin into it and store all the letters in a cup . They’re great for personalizing resin gifts. I just glue them down with e6000 or epoxy cement glue.
I love this idea so much, thank you for sharing!!!!!!
Yeah, I've been thinking about doing this myself. Why waste it? Might as well create extra stuff to toss into the next project.
Hi,
I have a few more suggestions:
When it’s rather cold I warm up the 2 bottles first, either in warm water or on the radiator. This helps to minimize the micro bubbles.
If you do it in water make sure to dry the bottles very well so you don’t end up getting water into your resin.
After mixing I leave the resin stand for about 5min to allow the bubbles to rise to try to get rid of the majority before I start pouring.
Personally I prefer my heat gun to pop the micro bubbles & I even use the heat gun while mixing depending on how cold it is, by having it blow on my mixing cup. Just make sure to use tge low setting & to not letting it get too hot or it will cure too quickly.
I also try to pour slowly to minimize the risk of micro bubbles.
Also if you are like me you end up with sticky fingers no matter what.
Fair enough the gloves will protect my hands.
But what about the phone since I use it to time when I mix the resin as well as waiting for the bubbles to rise.
Plus I use it also for music while I work on my projects.
To make sure my phone doesn’t end up as sticky as my fingers [& god knows it happened more often then I’d like to admit] every time before I start a project I use cling film to cover the phone very well.
Make sure it’s tight and smooth on the screen then you have no problems using the phone while working with the resin.
And if you want to listen to music or need to charge ensure that you leave those openings uncovered.
You also should always use Purple as there is no colour more awesome … EVER 💜
And Glitter … lots and lots of Glitter ... Because everything is better with Glitter❣️
I learned very quickly that Alexa can be your best friend when it comes to anything craft related 🤣 I have an Echo Spot in the room that I work in (I like having a screen so I can see the timer/videos, ect. and the Spot takes much less space than some of the other screened devices), so I can have my music playing, set timers, handle any calls or texts I may get, and watch youtube, all without the worry of my phone getting destroyed (again) 🤣
Umm 🙋♀️🙋♀️ sticky fingers all day also I have gloves and God know why I end up either starting without or w.e happens when i do wear em boom there off n ever u thing is sticky but this phone trick girrrrrllll yesss lol thank u
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Purple is absolutely best! And thanks for the phone tip!
I always put my phone in a zip lock bag to protect it if I'm concerned about getting it dirty. The touch screen still works just fine too. I like this method because I can re-use the same zip lock bag over & over again so there's less plastic waste. There is so much waste from doing arts & crafts so I'll do anything I can to reduce it. Every little bit helps!
I appreciate you & your channel, thank you!
Some tips from my current 2023 set-up:
1. I use a lint roller to clean my silicone mat work area, it rolls quickly. Glitter cannot escape its sticky awesomeness.
Thank you so much Steve for your VERY informative videos. I am just starting out with resin and can’t begin to tell you how much I already have learned from you. Thank you!
One thing that really helps me get rid of bubbles before I even start to pour is sitting the resin tub in hot water for 5 or ten minutes!
Never hot water but warm!
Thanks so much! I appreciate your teaching us. I had no idea about the molds!
Thank you Steve, I am very new to using Resin. Your videos are a very big help for me! 😘
You have been such an inspiration to me. This is another great video. Thank you for sharing so much with us ❤
Very informative video! Clear and detailed with very good reasons why you do your list of things. I do not work with resin, I just love to watch and learn. Resin art can be very very beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you for your help and kindness with those of us who are in the middle of using resin.
Thank you Steve!!! I always think you're really smart, knowing all those things (the molds storage for example) and letting us know! Blessings from Italy
I really appreciate the details you share in your videos.
Thank you for taking the time to explain all details on the do's and don'ts
Omgggg so helpful!! I’ve been working with resin for about a year now and this answered many of my questions! Also I will definitely bulk up my PPE!! Thank you soooooo much!!!
I stumbled on your channel by accident and boy am I so happy that I did as I'm about to start delving into using epoxy resin.
You have supplied me with sooooooooo much fantastic information and great tips. I'm so very grateful to you and your experiments are so worthwhile. PLUS!...I discovered your other channel too which is also awesome and valuable to me. You're amazing!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! X
Thank you very thoughtful of you to help others. Much appreciated
I was very impressed with your knowledge of resins and molds. I learn a lot from this video.
I'm new to resin and you have been the most helpful and most interesting crafter I've found on UA-cam! Thanks for these tips and tricks I would have never thought of!!!
I’ve been following you for quite some time now and I just love all the tips you’re giving .Thanks 👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I just starting resin, I rely on your videos to learn. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Every time I look up resin tips I come across your videos. I have finally subscribed since you seem to be the go to person for resin stuff. Thank you!!!
I've just started playing around with small resin things. There r lots of things n ur video I found really helpful! Thank u!
Hi Steve, I came across your channel as I am really interested in starting to craft with resin. Your channel is great to watch and educational. I never knew about different kinds of resin for projects. I just thought resin was resin. I am learning so much from your channel. I cant thank you enough. You have a new sub.
Wow, I love your channel. I just wanted to thank you for posting the links in the description. I am starting my own resin business, and was going to spend over $380 to get what I needed because I was buying everything separately. But no I will be spending WAY less, you are seriously a paycheck saver lol. But I also love your content, it inspires me and it is so helpful. I honestly appreciate your channel. This may not be much, but just know that you made this newbie resin business persons day!
Thank you hun for updating this
I’m so excited to start making stuff with resin. Your videos are soooo helpful. Thank you! ♥️
Thankyou so much for these tips.. you are so generous with your info!
Thank u for ur video! I just started resin about 4 months ago & have watched SO many videos! Urs was BY FAR the best & most informative!! Thank YOU
THANK YOU SO MUCH
You are so thorough and that has helped me more than anything I've seen
thanks :) I just wanted to say you never stop learning or picking up good tips from other makers. I've been working with resin for 15 years and I'd never say I know everything, I definitely learn from other makers all the time 👍
Thanks! 🙂 I appreciate the ideas and education 🙂I'm just getting started with this stuff and it's a bit overwhelming and too expensive to be making easily fixable mistakes. I''m sure I will be binge watching your videos in order to learn more
I love that you are so real and straight forward. You are unquenchable exuberance ! Thank-you for all the information for a newby like me!
Wow, this video is brilliant!
So many useful tips!
Thank you! ⚘
I have been doing resin for years.. I found your tips really helpful!
Hi, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. It’s been very helpful. 😊
I enjoy your videos on resin, saves me a lot of money, making sure I get the right resin for the project I am working on.
Thank you for sharing Steve , they are really good tips
Thanks you so much. I had a play with resin and really didn't get on with it. After watching a few of your videos I feel confident enough to try again.
Thank you so much for the video. Very helpful and your wonderful sense of humor makes it even more interesting.
Watching your videos is giving me some courage to try resin crafts for the first time
Being a brand new newbie, thanks for the tips! I went and moved things out of direct sunlight as soon as you said that.. so thanks for the tip!
Love your videos. I particularly like that you constantly, in many videos, drive home the importance of PPE.
Very informative. Thank you so much. So many tips that I didn't know but that are so helpful
Thank you Steve. The advice about putting a fan BEHIND you pointing to a window makes perfect sense🤗
I'm a safety nut, yet, I never thought to do that💖 Truly appreciate the tip!
Thank you. I've been itching to buy the materials and tools but your video made me to learn about it more from many people. Thank you really.
Such a great and informative video!! Thanks so much fo sharing your knowledge!
I'm so glad I watched your channel today. Recently I've had a problem with my eyes swelling up and itching terribly. Now I know why. They look exactly like yours! I had never associated it with using resin. I've been using the same brand since the mid 90's and this has just recently become a problem. Thank you so much for showing me what the issue is. I'm getting one of those masks today.
Is it weird that I'm jealous of your work studio!? 🤣🤣 Seriously, though, I loved your video...far more informative than most I've listened to, and I look forward to listening to more! Thanks, Steve!
This is really helpful for a beginner like me; I haven't tried Epoxy resin yet, but this is still very helpful as I do plan on using epoxy later down the road since I would love to make dice later on (and many other things). But overall, this video is really helpful with a lot of information that help beginners like me! Thank you for this video!
Thank you so much for all those tips. Very helpful as I have only been doing resin for a short time. Those layering lines you were talking about are called "witness lines". Where it came from I don't know but I heard it on woodturning videos. They all use the term, those who use resin of course. 💕😊💕🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing your secrets Steve!
❤️thank you for being so detailed
Thankx for all of the tips. I have asthma, so your safety tips are really helpful, for I really want to work with resin.
Im new to resin art and this was so very helpful to me. Thank you
I truly love your channel and the way you narrate as you film. You are so creative and talented.
Terrific tips!! Thank you for putting this together for us ❤️🌵✌🏻
Thanks for the information again!! These are tips we all need a reminder of from time to time.
I really was glad to hear you talk about how you store your molds.... I think this is the first time you've ever told us that you store them not only in bags, but also in a drawer. I've often wondered about that part of your storage. So thanks again.
Ringy-dingy🔔🔔🦋🦋
Thanks for the tips and I am really enjoying the education Steve.😊
Another tip for resinwork: Get an adjustable heat gun: one that you can turn the fan speed up and down and the temperature up and down. It's a lifesaver for getting bubbles out. Also if bubbles are a major concern, the slower the cure the less likely you are to have bubbles (generally). This is a great video and should be required viewing before getting into resin work!
or a buckets of a warm water, its cheaper 😁
Or just a regular lighter will work wonders for bubbles just don’t burn the silicone molds lol!
Alcohol sprayed on the bubbles works great to get rid of them
@@SharoninKentucky 91% isopropyl alcohol? Or technical grade, 99%?
Do you have one you can recommend?
Thank you , Steve!❤
Hello Steve McDonald, I'm new to your channel and am now a new subbie, + hit the bell so not to miss anything you'll be sharing, I'm fairly new to this once (in the late 70's) favorite craft, I didn't know much about it then and really had some just okay projects lol, I'm still loving this craft after many years I'm just about to turn 71, later this month; so I wanted to re-enter this craft stage again, but learn much more about the do's and NOT to do's this time round, so I'll be watching listening and best of all learning along the way, THANK YOU for sharing all you do!
Thanks for your tips. I am experimenting with silicone molds and resin casting and learned something today.
Thank you for the information I have been making pop cap key chains for about 5 years and now I just watched a few of your videos and learned a lot more thank you for your information you share
Excellent introduction for the novice. Thank you Steve.
I completely relate. I feel I become a novice with every new creation… YES, to getting info on resins!
Steve, you are utterly charming and personable. This should be required for anyone thinking about or starting to work with resin. If I had found your exceptionally excellent video before I started working with resin, I would have saved time, mondy, and worked far more safely. Instead, it took me a lot of research and a few expensive mistakes to learn. You also taught me several things today that I still did not know, so thank you!
Hello ! I just bought a few materials as starter and watch your video, i am taking notes !! Thank you. Looking fforward to learn more.
Thank you so much, I learned a lot!
I saw 19 minutes 35 seconds and almost didn't watch this. I AM SO GLAD I DID! You sir, are a delight to watch! You got stuck into the info straight away, always to the point & there is sooooo much here to take away. Thank you for your time & for sharing 🥰🥰
I’ve been watching you for almost 2 years 😮, and I do not remember this well needed video. I do believe, so many of us get caught up in how to do all this fabulous projects, yet are not following the very necessary steps to start. 🙌🏻….
Thanks for the refresher!
Thank you so much! Are saving me a lot of time and money, and failed projects! And when you did the flame, I totally jumped! I will definitely be remembering that tip lol!
With the silicone cups I didn’t like marking them on the side because sometimes I would do three or four pours one after the other rather than pouring a lot at a time because then that would give me more work time with each individual pour. What I would do is I would set a flashlight (a little mini flashlight) next to the silicone cup and then pour the resin into the cup. If you aim the light slightly behind the raised labeling on the cup, the light will highlight it very well to make it easier to read and see.
What I discovered about mica powders is that there are two kinds. There’s the one that we use for resin but apparently there’s another one that they use for soaps and it is made with oil which, if you mix it with a resin, will never ever ever ever ever let your resin cure. It makes quite a mess when you try and clean it up.
Great tips thanks so much. Take care and stay safe!
What type mica powder did you use that wouldn’t let it cure? Because I’ve bought so many different powders including stuff used for soap/candles and they work just as well as other’s. I also stopped mixing the color into the resin instead I paint the silicone molds with mica powder how I want it then pour resin and bam it’s colored. But all mica I’ve used have always cured no matter which on i use
@@stephi586 It said it was oil based. That’s all I know.
Was lead to believe some mica powdered leave a residue but I’m just learning an never had that problem ( yet ) but I do stir for longer as waching hundreds UA-cam vids say if they dint cure it’s because u have done something wrong like not mixed enough or using a dirty stirrer. Bowl or sticks etc
@@chriscrosscrafter I don't know what you used but I make soap, makeup etc and mica is never oil based . It is always just a powder.
@@kelleyspartiatis5323 haha right? Mica is made of muscovite, a naturally-occurring mineral. If a mica product indicates that it has oil(s) in it, it’s not simply mica. It’s some kind of mixture product and should not be used interchangeably for “normal”powdered mica.
Much needed video! Thank you!!
-very new resin worker, didn't know molds dry out- you are probably saving me a lot of money, thank you
Thankyou for the tips I’m thinking of working with resin so this video is very helpful
Thank You for your info Im new at this and you are so helpful. A great teacher ♥
Tyfs! Always Great Info ❤😁👏🏾👏🏾
Enjoyed the video and learning more about resin and the ins and outs to using it. Especially the dangerous and safety precautions. Not that I use it but have grandkids who might want to.
Ordered some resin looking forward to giving this one a try. 😊
Thank you so much for this video!
I learn so much from your videos. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this information 🙏 it will be a great help for beginners like us
Steve, you are a true treasure to the UA-cam crafting community! Today I’m going back and rewatching your videos that I’ve saved for future reference! I’ve saved so many that I’m picking out what I need right now! Stay strong and healthy!
You’ve got a friend in me! Thank you sooo much!
Hello Steve, you can resurface your "Flat" molds, nothing with texture. All you have to do is mix a small amount of 2 part silicone, spread it evenly on the bottom of the mold. Make sure the mold is level, the silicone will self level. Let it cure. As we know silicone will stick to silicone so it works very well.
Thank you for the tips! 💙🐰💙
I came here to say the same thing. Just a beginner myself but wrote that tip down from Julie Cutts (Pouring Your Heart Out)
Making picture tile coasters for Christmas gifts. Your videos are so helpful. Thanks
I am thinking of using resin in jewellery making and have watched quite a few videos before I start. Yours is by far the best I have found. You explain everything very clearly so even someone with no experience using resin like me, can understand. I do have one big disadvantage in that I am connected up to oxygen 24/7 so I cannot work with naked flame. So it was great to see someone in the chat say they use a heat gun to get rid of the bubbles.
Thank you for the informative video. My first time here and enjoying it!
TY Love your videos as i am new at this craft.
This is a really good video for me as a beginner I learned a lot. Thank you
Thank you for the tip very appreciated
Thanks so much! Take care!❤
New subbie😊 Thank you so much for all the great info! Have a great day! Stay safe and well.
Thanks Steve great tips.
I'm planning to get into resin and your video's are very helpful thank you. I didn't realize moulds dry out, so thank you for that, all your tips and video's are so helpful.
Thanks Steve so much useful information 🎉
Absolutely fantastic video so full of great information I am thinking about working with resin but have been a little scared to I must admit, so to be honest this video is very helpful.
Thank you so much!! About to do my first pours today and you're saving me a few mistakes!! I've been doing extensive research the past few months to try to limit waste and mistakes, but nowhere mentioned the risks with isopropyl alcohol!!
I'm glad I watched this whole video because some of my molds are secondhand so probably already have a dullness to them, so if I had been using the 91% alcohol I was planning on misting them with instead of a lighter to pop bubbles, I potentially could've ruined my products
Very informative as always x
Thank you for the great tips! Love from Chicago USA
Very Informative . Thank you