5 Epoxy Resin SECRETS I Wish I Knew as a Beginner. IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME SO MUCH MONEY!
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- I curated 5 things nobody tells you when you start you epoxy resin beginner journey into the diy hobby. you can have great craft skills and a lot of ideas, but some thing you have to learn the hard way. I try to help you with my hard learned lessons.
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Here are a couple of little ones. Never use a torch to remove bubbles if using a silicone mold, use a long lighter and keep it moving. While hot day with make your resin pour thiner, cold work areas you might have in the winter will thicken it. Place your bottles of resin in warm water to bring up the temperature. If you accidentally kept your resin too long and it has started to yellow in the bottle, it MIGHT be still good. Pour a small test piece first to check. If all goes well, just it for projects that require black pigment.
i wish I knew this before the fabric dye fiasco :D
I so appreciate your vids and rants Bela. I've been working with epoxy for around 5 years. All of your tips here are spot on! No one really wants to give away info, or they will tell you some of it, but not all. I don't have the room to do full on river tables, but I do use wood substrates for resin paintings. Number ONE thing I learned, is to use quality epoxy. If you use "cheap" epoxy, it WILL YELLOW. Another.. use the correct epoxy for the project that you are doing. If your pour is deep, use deep pour epoxy to prevent flash curing. Next.. a Canvas substrate is not meant for epoxy.. especially a 2 inch gallery wrapped canvas as the resin is heavy and it will cause the canvas to dip, and you will have exposed canvas on the edges.. not a good look. Now I have done acrylic pours on a thin gallery wrapped canvas (Level 2 - Michael's) with success. But even before I pour the acrylics down, I will wet the back of the canvas and hit it with my heat gun to shrink it, It's good if you hear a "drum sound" when tapping it. Never place a piece of cardboard under the canvas to support it. You will surely have the edge of the cardboard show up on the top side. Another.. ALWAYS seal your wood substrate!! Wood will de-gas! You will get non-stop bubbles popping up through the resin! It is fixable... sand and recoat. It's also not about doing the perfect pour, it's knowing how to fix it.
oh man, I wish I knew all this before I started fu..ing around with canvas and resin. thanks for all this! this will help me avoid disasters!!
@@AeginaCraft You're welcome! 💜
Would a couple coats of gesso and then sanding it smooth work?
You can then color the gesso for a variety of colored /textured backgrounds ( if it works).
Just an idea. I’m just starting out. I have no idea. 😊
@@boopeep9670 gesso repells epoxy
@@boopeep9670 Gesso does help with making the canvas sturdier, which I will do, however, once the resin goes on, it still will dip. This is why I prefer to use a wood substrate..and in that case you MUST gesso to keep the wood from de-gassing and formng those pesky bubbles.
Very useful to know, thank you for the tips! I'm just getting into it, but haven't had a chance to mix my first batch yet...
So information like this is invaluable.
So glad I found your channel. Very useful information. Especially the shrinking. Thanks for the tips and keeping it real!
happy to help dude!
Ty for your tips!
Hi, some great tips you have here. I found that by using clear school glue, one drop per ounce works great for mixing glitter to the epoxy in making coasters, etc. Have a blessed day
Oooh that sounds like alchemy!
Yes Daniel Cooper discovered this
Thanks Bela. Didn't know about the wood resin reaction to epoxy.🤔😮
I found out the same way as you did about the shrinkage. I now make sure to do a slight dome to finish on even on things that are flat.
It's really important to wear a respirator, as well as ventilation, as well when using epoxy as chemical fumes will wreak your lungs. 🫁
I must have another try with Elmers glue for masking. I tried it a few years but for me masking tape worked better.
Loved the goodbye😂❤
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You need to put the glue on thick
thx
happy to help!
about that deforming - i saw video once when guys think design where table top becomes leg like you know, L-shape. And scince gravity is a thing, they could not make mold so... they pour straight table top, cure it for a week and then.. put it in sun for another week. And it worked. There were based in some hotter states ;)
You CAN develop contact alergy for resin. It happens more often with nail technicians that works with hybryd and acrylic nails. Yes, hybryd gel is just uv resin with compound what makes it cure slower ;) I know wearing gloves is pain in the ass, but it does 2 things - you dont have to clean-scrub your hands and you are protected from that shit ;)
hey i see you shop is filling with stuff, nice :)
Thank to you I learned about the resin allergies! Thanks for being an awesome member of the gang!
When I first started out with resin there wasn't too much information out there on it. The biggest thing I wish I knew back then was that deep pour resin existed and if you deep poured with regular resin it would flash cure. I also wish I would have known that polyurethane resin was NOT the same as epoxy resin (lucky for me when I bought that one by mistake I at least read the back of the bottles to see I needed to work with it with good ventilation because yikes...the fumes were baaaad). I feel like a dumbass now for the mistakes I made back then but it was probably 7 or 8 years ago that I started and well before the boom of channels with tutorials (and most of the channels I did see were people like me who were just trying to figure it out lol). These were great tips, my friend! I didn't know about the pine issue, but it makes sense that more sappy woods might have a reaction to the hardener. Definitely good to know before I try to play around with wood and resin together (previously I used resin more for jewelry and pieces to add to clay work). Thank you for the video
Oh boy I didnt know u dont mix deep pour with regular! Thank you! Xx much love hun
@@AeginaCraft Absolutely! I think generally anything that is over 4 inches (for most resins, but some might be less) you either need to cure in layers with normal resin or use deep pour or it can create a big mess with flash curing. I ruined many projects with flash curing before I finally discovered deep pour lol. xx love to you and your family!
I seal my wood with wood glue then do a light sand. I spray with some alcohol to get the dust off. So far no problems I never have dust in my resin. One thing I wish I knew was how much resin gets absorbed in the wood...its alot. Thats why I started sealing just a light coat of wood glue.
That sounds cool! And how do you finish the wood in the end? Oil it or varnish?
As someone who has just started trying resin, I wish there was a ‘one stop’ terminology guide to explain the basic techniques and terms. I can dream. 😂
I wish I could make it, but i just know it would be so incomplete its not even funny :D
Thanks for the very useful information and advice Bela. This is stuff where we learn from.. certainly take them in account when ‘playing’ with epoxy.. you are just amazing 💪💪💙💜🩵. And really like your location of filming, very inspiring 🤗🤗.
Thanks sis! Im trying!
Hello Bela! Great tips & information. Thank you! xx🎉
Thank fran! Hugs! Xx
Alcohol makes uv resin sticky I've ruined so many things because I didn't know this. Lol
Nice to know! Made a note!
Ty for the info
happy to help!
use a fan for fumes
Nice informative video Bela 😊
Im just a messenger of all of your lovely tips!
What about the Elmer’s glue? Didn’t catch why and how you’re using it.
use it on the bottom of the piece when you flood coat to avoid the need of sanding, kind of a liquid masking tape
@@AeginaCraft oh?! Assuming you let it dry first, but… it doesn’t reactivate and move? Interesting
What happens if you try to pre-cure your pine with straight hardener?
i have no idea :D
that would be a cool experiment tho!
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Hello Bela, perhaps a uv resin sealer? OR... a varnish of some sort... Amazing tips as always. :D
Give me some context here darling! Xx
@@AeginaCraft To stop the stickiness in the sun. Sorry, I have to remember to start at the begining of the sentence. LOL
hahaha! now I get it! I think it just needs time to the hardener to properly evaporate, so sealing would be contra productive. BUT that's just my theory though
And what kind of vinegar? the cleaning kind?
oh i dunno of a cleaning kind, here u can get grape vinegar, apple vinegar, balsamic, and concentrated i used grape and apple, bot works. test them :)
@@AeginaCraft In the US we have a kind that is used for housecleaning, but cannot be used in food. Good to know it’s any kind of vinegar that’ll work.
Thank you for answering. I just discovered your videos 👍🏼👍🏼😊
I use plain white vinegar. I believe that's the cleaning vinegar. And it's cheap! Works a charm!
@@TheResinersPourHouse that’s what I thought. great thanks. Though Ageina Craft says he uses food grade. So looks like they all work. ☺️
The epoxy cure completly one year after pour.
Well said!
Instead of vinegar to clean hands, I just use sugar and spray with cheap cooking oil, scrub hands and then just clean off with dishwashing liquid. I don't like the idea of vinegar
that could work too! I heard simple wd40 does the trick for some people too!
I use white vinegar and it works amazing! I had spent nearly $20 on this unicorn exfoliating soap made for resin. The vinegar works 1000x better.
@@TheResinersPourHouse I wouldn't use vinegar in my hands when sugar and oil does as good a job
@@MsHeebiejeebies what is wrong with vinegar? It's cheaper than two ingredients I now need to keep next to my sink and ruin whatever containers they are in with resin. It's non-toxic and eco friendly.