DIY Epoxy Table - Step By Step Guide - Part 2

hey what's up everyone my name is greg and welcome to my channel this is going to be part 2 of our epoxy table built and if you didn't check out part 1 i am going to leave a link down in the description and they will most probably pop up a link now where you can go and check out part one first before you continue watching part two so in part one we covered most of our preparation in our epoxy table built and moving on to part two we are almost done building our mold and as you can see i'm just busy applying some silicone in the edges of my mold the reason why i'm doing this is once i'm going to pour my epoxy into my mold that it's not going to be able to leak out [Music] now moving on to the next step we are going to apply some mold release wax to the inside of our malt and this is just a purpose for once our epoxy table is finished it's going to come off easily now i know there's a lot of people that's using the tape but i prefer the wax method and when you're applying your wax you have to make 100 sure that you cover all the corners inside your mold now in part one i did cover the topic that your work surface needs to be 100 level and this is also going to be the next step in your epoxy table bolt is to make sure that your mold is also 100 level you don't want to pour your epoxy into a table that's not sitting level this is going to force the epoxy to go to the one side that's not level you have to leave the mold release wax inside your mold for about 20 minutes before you can start packing your wood into your mold so now we're moving on to the next step and that's by placing a slab inside your mold so and as you can see i'm applying some cross braces onto my slab i'm going to be fastening it with some clamps to make sure that my wood is not going to move at all once i'm going to start pouring my epoxy now i'm just doing some large double checking to make sure my mold on the inside is 100 clean just using an air gun to spray the large dust particles out the next step in our epoxy table build is to work out the amount of epoxy we're going to need for our table to work out the amount of epoxy we're going to need we're going to need to work out the volume of the open spaces inside my epoxy table so i personally only know two methods of how to work out volume the first method is the method i'm using and that is length times width times height and the second method is you can just use bags of rice to fill all the open spaces in your epoxy table then you can remove all the rice add it in 20 liter buckets and then you'll get a good idea of how much epoxy you're going to need once you have the volume amount of your epoxy table you can use an online calculator to convert your volume to liters or 2 kilograms so me and my client decided to go with a light see-through aqua color when you mix your color agent into your epoxy make sure you mix a little at a time to get the perfect color you want so while you're busy checking me out humping the epoxy if it's your first time here and you want to learn more how to diy guys please subscribe to my channel and if you like this video please give it a thumbs up it's gonna cost you nothing and it's definitely going to help the channel grow and help me to make future content the epoxy i'm using is a one to six ratio please do not use this ratio for wherever you are in the world all the epoxies has got different ratios for mixing it together and the specific epoxy i'm using is not being calculated by liters it's calculated by weight that means for every one kilograms of resin i have to add 600 grams of hardener when you are done measuring your epoxy resin and hotner you need to mix them together for at least 3 minutes once you are done mixing everything together you can leave it for about 10 minutes and all the air bubbles will come up and then you can just use your gas gun to remove most of the bubbles before you do your first pour finally we're getting to the fun part of this video and that's by pouring our epoxy into our mold this specific epoxy i'm using i can only pour 10 millimeters to 15 millimeters at a time so that means for my total table i'm going to do four pours so and as you're going to pour your epoxy into your mold you're going to see a lot of bubbles you can just use a normal flame gas gun to remove all your bubbles in your epoxy table eight hours later i'm back to do the second pour in my epoxy table so there's one specific topic in the epoxy table world that everyone is arguing about and that is to seal your life edges with epoxy or not so for my specific project i decided not to seal my edges just for the plain reason that i'm thinking the epoxy is penetrating the wood better and is giving me a better bond but in the same breath if i could go back and do it differently and if i can give you some advice and one of the small mistakes i made is that there was small specific spaces on my table that the wood was releasing some air bubbles and to fix this small problem i would definitely have a small brush in hand when the epoxy is about 50 dry i will definitely come and brush the inside of my epoxy onto my live edge just to release the last little bit of bubbles now we're going to remove the table from our mold and i honestly do have to say that the wax definitely done its purpose now for the next step i put my table back onto the router slit and i took off about two mils at the top and at the bottom now in part one i did mention to build your mode 10 millimeters bigger on all the sides and this is just for the plain reason once your table is done you can cut it down to its final size and have a nice neat clean finish right around so now we're going to move on to the sanding process for this epoxy table build and honestly speaking this was one of the most time consuming processes of this whole project starting your sanding process with 100 grit sandpaper on your belt sander this is just to remove all the bigger markings the router sled made and after you finish with your belt sander at the bottom and the top of your table we're going to move to the orbital sander we're going to start off with 120 grit sandpaper then we're going to move on to 180 grit 220 grit 300 grit 400 grit 500 grit 600 grit 800 grit a thousand grit a thousand two hundred grit and then a thousand five hundred grit and yes as i told you it's an extremely time consuming process this process took me about two to three days to get this high end finish moving on to the next step i don't want the top of my table to have a very sharp edge that's why i'm just going to give it a small chamfer right around with my router moving on to the polishing part of the stable and this is where the magic is going to start to happen we're going to start off by polishing our table with a 2000 grit sponge sandpaper and then we're going to move on to a 3000 grit sponge sandpaper and the last step to polish your epoxy i just use a normal sponge polisher to give it a nice smooth finish [Music] now the absolute last step in your epoxy table build is just to apply some oil to your wooden sections of your table the specific product i'm using is rubio monaco to pier it is a linseed oil and i've been using this product for about a few months now and i honestly do have to say i'm super satisfied with the finish is giving me and i would definitely recommend getting this product for all your wooden projects so once you apply rubio monaco to your wood you have to leave it for about 10 minutes before you wipe it off now remember the wood is only going to take the amount of linseed oil it needs and then the excess you just wipe off [Music] [Music] so this is going to be the end of our two-part series epoxy table build and before i'm going to leave you with the final product i honestly hope that this step-by-step video is going to help you to build your own and if you have any questions guys you can ask me in the comment section below and remember to subscribe and if you like this video hit the thumbs up cheers guys so foreign

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Length: 16min 32sec (992 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021