How To Make Severed Marble

we use stone coat countertop epoxy to create severed marble in this video we show you step-by-step exactly how a do-it-yourselfer can create this advanced look with simple techniques watch right now how we use our color additives to create this technique using reactions from one another you create depth and realism the techniques are simple and using household spray paint combined with our additives creates unbelievable looks we show you how we chop the surface and torch the bubbles out we remove the tape in between coats so we can do our next color by doing two color coats it allowed us to create contrast we taped one part off and we poured the second this technique proved to be amazing we were a happy that we did it and we're excited to show you how you'll learn how to mimic marble and create high-end opal we're gonna show you how we combine these two techniques and added clear veins we're gonna show you how we torch the veins to create movement along with the heat gun we're gonna show you the timing that we use to melt everything together and more this video is jam-packed full of pro tips for the do-it-yourself for the weekend warrior and the contractor artisan this video is part of our epoxy skill series visit us any time at Stone Koch countertops com stay tuned and enjoy the video [Music] [Music] [Music] remember when you subscribe to our channel click on the red subscribe button and be sure to ring the bell so you get notified every time we have a new video thanks again all right we're gonna create organic shakes with tape to create a dam this is a first we're gonna see how well it really works and then peeling that tape at the right time is critical you don't want it to embed under that epoxy but you want to be able to get it off soon enough before it locks it in so that's a guessing game it's kind of fun to to to gamble we're gambling we're gambling we're not in Vegas but we're gambling there you go alright leery rule of 7 or 11 right speaking of Vegas April 7th and 8th 2020 is the artisan summit number 2 it's gonna be epic we'll see you in 2020 in Las Vegas alright we're going to use regular painters masking tape to tape off organic shapes why we want some really cool hard visual interest that has this exotic stone look that seems as if it doesn't belong together I've installed granite that look like that it was always the highest in and it always seemed to look the most classy so we're gonna create these shapes using tape we got to peel them at the right time your drips tell you everything if they're nice and gummy and they're not moving too much that's the time to remove the tape [Music] alright there's our piece man what's your goal for this project you can see that we've taped off these reservoirs these are gonna be our popping pieces to this project we're going to use blues we're going to use a array of Blues out of spray-paint we're gonna do Lagoon we're gonna do seaside we're gonna do spa blue we're gonna do cobalt blue metallic and then we're gonna switch to a silver and then always of course black and white another couple of additives we're going to use our metallics and violet pearl and crater lake blue those are going to react with our base tent to create cells our spray pants are also going to react with both of those additives to create natural reactions we're going to use our stone coat countertop epoxy at a one-to-one ratio we're gonna mix it for 2 minutes using a drill we'll pour that out and we'll start that creative process we have our pallet and now the sky's the limit don't be afraid to move color don't be afraid to work this material until you're happy you have plenty of working time this product is designed just for this purpose 0 vo C eco-friendly it's do-it-yourself friendly it's designed for the weekend warrior let's get started so you guys are going to mix our additives there I'm gonna add black bass tent into the rest of our epoxy here and we'll meet in the middle [Music] I'm gonna pour this out in that center piece and we'll trial it out so you can see what we're doing here with our old bucket is we're gonna set it at the end of the countertop so anything that drains will go into that bucket I'm gonna go through and just travel this one more time so I don't leave too much on the surface I don't want to waste anything okay Rhonda are you ready to help me yeah so go ahead and let's just pour that randomly not in like but almost just no pattern right you want bigger chunks er no I don't know let's start small cuz we could always add more so I'll lead kind of with this color to show you so I'm just yep you concur then I'm just gonna start spraying a lot of spray paint in this and we'll then we'll move it all around as one okay and then I want to be careful not to over spray onto the other piece you want the white I think this will work yep that's the blue nice then I'm gonna give you the silver [Music] all I'm gonna do here is just try to move these colors around enough to mix them without melting them too much Wow it's almost looks like a peacock yeah I'm just just kind of shopping it with the rag and just moving it enough to hide any floating and spray-paint that's too easy right there look at out look at how it makes it look instantly more real right this came out fantastic I can't wait to finish this piece I'm gonna come back in a few hours we'll peel this tape will let it just flow out a little bit more it's it's not going to be totally solidified so when I peel it we'll see what happens then I'm gonna come back tomorrow I'm gonna pour the next opposing color typically we do color coat all the same time but we're testing something out I really wanted opposing colors something that's going to grab your attention but work well as an exotic stone it's easy to mimic mother nature when you experiment beyond your comfort zone we'll see in a minute [Music] [Applause] [Music] alright step 1 I'm gonna protect what I did as the first section in the first pour I'm gonna use the masking tape to mask off these inlays and then we'll start with our next color I think I'm gonna go outside the detail so that when I remove this it will flow inside that little like sharp detail that I put in with the stick guys we hope these videos really generate some thoughts and ideas and creativity for you if you're finding value in this video don't hesitate to hit that like button and help us get higher in the queue sweet I think we're ready let's do this I'm gonna mix up some stone coat countertop epoxy and clear I'm gonna use some spray paint I'm gonna use white I'm gonna use silver I'm gonna use black and I think I might use a little bit of cobalt blue just to tie this section in with this section so it doesn't look too foreign to each other and then I'm also gonna use our black base tent I'm gonna use our white metallic and I'm gonna use our diamond desk I'm gonna do a lot of clear and then I'm gonna use those additives to bring in veins I'm going to do striated veins and movement in this and make this marble hit up with this glorified awesome granite and it's gonna be a work of art masterpiece I hope let's get started here we go it's interesting when you work with epoxy the kind of garbage that you create it's a lot of fun you're like the gloves are off you can have you can have a gentlemen's fight at range yes gentlemen's fight that's an oxymoron man what I really love about stone coat countertops is if you love this color now but maybe five years later you're kind of over and you're sick of it you don't have to throw this out you get to renew it you could actually recoat this in a weekend and have a totally new look to match your new tastes and your new decor whatever home and garden television or HGTV told you that week you can throw it on your counters and see what you think that's why I got into construction I failed the circus multi-tasking I'm getting rid of all my epoxy that's left over in the bottles to create a sample if you do this a lot you're gonna get something to have just little bits in the bottle and it's not worth sitting there waiting but you'll come to that one core area you know what I'm gonna use all my leftovers and and you get this beautiful project out of a bunch of leftovers but just be careful to use all parties and all parties don't mix them up accidentally and get the mixture ratios off this bottle was sitting in my shop for a long time well over a year let's try it out on purpose we've left products sitting on our shelf to see the real shelf life the lab says one year that's a really conservative guesstimate you can use this stuff for a very long time it has a great shelf life because there's zero VOCs there's no solvents that are evaporating out of your product and causing solids to settle to the bottom so you get a great long shelf life with stone coke countertop epoxy also that zero VLC makes it eco-friendly and DIY friendly there's no noxious fumes while you're working with the epoxy I think I'm gonna add just a little bit more white here we go guys let's see what this thing turns into remember some of these colors are opaque like this black and the white you won't see through down to that base but through the diamond dust embedded in that clear you will see through it and the clear that I'm about to pour you'll see through I'm gonna add a little bit of spray paint here in there to make all those things react to one another and I'm gonna get a beautiful piece but I've just laid down in rows pretty straight what my colors are all I'd be clear and then I'll start moving them around as I wish all right guys we are in the middle of a really cool pour right now I can't wait to see what this is going to look like when I'm all done this is awesome we got black we got metallic white we got Diamond Dustin clear we got some silver we got some black and white spray paint it's all gonna react and come together we've got a beautiful base and some inlays already poured this is gonna be fantastic let us know do you like what you see so far and do you want to see the finished product and I got these whites mixed lightly different one of them I got heavily concentrated with metallics and one of them has just lightly concentrated so that should be a fun difference as well you could play with that to get really cool unique colors happening we get asked all the time in our YouTube comments how do I repeat this process what's the recipe and what are the steps we've done that work for you we've created a step-by-step pictures and words to put this process together with ease check out Stone Coke enter Tops calm under our project recipes and you're gonna learn step by step how to recreate this project like a pro we'll see you there I've got an old bondo squeegee I'm gonna move these colors around with this just to kind of spread it out and then I'll maybe melt it a little further with a paint stick or my hands this is really cool and I'm just moving it around enough to coat the piece and the more that I move it it actually looks better that was really easy just moving that around with the bondo spreader you can see some of these reactions that are already happening this is complex right here and I'm gonna mix some white into this jet black just to give it a little bit more interest here just go through here and I'm gonna get it saturated wherever there's any epoxy that's missing I'll just saturate it with my hand and then I could come back with this paint stick and move it around - this is gorgeous this is going to be a showpiece I think I'll come back with that bondo spreader - because I like that it's creating kind of fatter lines it's not just creating these thin lines that you get with the paint stick this is just cool to do where you want more color this is that silver metallic spray paint and it's subtle but neat you'll think you're messing your color up but it will continue to separate and move for you and I think I'll just start drizzling some of this in like little veins now get some veins with our diamond dust - and I'm almost just skip traveling this a little bit just to make some fatter lines more meld it out it'll make it look more like marble let's get a little bit of blue guys what do you think would you add blue to tie this in a little goes a long way when you've got a strong color like this so let's just start kind of in the darker section where that black is and then maybe just peek it through a little bit here in this lighter cell yeah yep it's definitely gonna bring some Beauty to this I just have a little bit left here on my stick just by dragging it through like that you can see traces of it popping up oh wow it's a little more than I wanted but I think it's gonna really be cool usually some of the coolest things are found in the process of pushing the limits look at these reactions right here I don't want to mess with that I need to start brushing out these edges a little bit I get some of this color here on my hand just start rubbing some of that and the edges see this right here where that black is just use that and that's gold right there you could just pick that up and use it now that I've gotten these edges with some epoxy that they'll flow over they'll kind of draw that color over that edge all right I'm gonna go through here and move some of this color here I'm just using some of that trash here on the table veins just more layers on top before I move it around see this here where it kind of looks man-made this little tadpole I'm gonna just use my paint stick just spread that out a little bit so it looks more realistic it's not hard to do this guy's it's just step back and you have plenty of working time to know when you want to stop and when you don't so what I'm gonna do now is just move this around with the torch and heat down a little bit just to create a little bit less straight effects all I'm doing is just rolling color over other color just to create windows and openings and I think that'll be more visually interesting protip guys when you're using different additives it's less likely you're gonna create mud with your art because they continually want to separate and give you that high contrast so it's okay to move them together and watch them come apart once again yeah what I'm doing here is I'm just really he raised the guinea man made strokes it's creating true randomness I think I'll come back a little late in the poor and just add some color to these edges there they're a little bit bald and it could take some color and start adding it to it and it'll look more more real I could also come through and add just to coat on those edges if I'd I'd like to build those edges up so that I could sand and polish them alright Chris says out of vain we're gonna add a vein we don't know when to quit Chris she'll just take some black and silver through that maybe just a touch of blue just a touch all right let's torch that out I think all uh move that slightly with a stick just on some of these spots where it's a little too bright push that paint down there we go good call Chris I think I'm going to add more I'm moving around just a little bit with the heat gun just to blow it out slightly without cooking it [Music] [Applause] so I think I'm gonna lay a Abbi to clear down and then make a vein in that - right here in the front that looks good that needed that right there in the front just off-kilter slightly awesome so all I think I'm gonna do here is just use my hands and just work up to this vein feeling any dry spots from that tape I take my heat gun and blow that color over all right guys we push the limits we've been at this thing for over an hour and a half it's pretty warm in here it's actually 78 degrees it's doing great I had plenty of time to do all the effects my heart wanted I had fun doing this piece you can't get this hard line by doing this at the same time so this is really our biggest takeaway here is if you pour two different color coats you get a fantastic approach to a very interesting piece that looks like this rock was torn open and showed you this opal on steroids this is a really cool piece I can't wait to do the clear coat let's come back tomorrow and finish this thing up we'll see you in a moment all right we are back and this is dry we're ready for the clear coat it's simple we're gonna sand with 220 grit then we'll wipe the dust we're gonna mix our stone coat countertop epoxy at a one-to-one ratio will trowel that out using it 1/8 by 1/8 square notch trowel we'll chop that will torch it three times and we're ready to let this set up and install our showpiece I'm so excited let's get started protip if you want to do one clear coat and make sure everything lays out nice and flat be sure to get your scene a good smooth transition so you don't see where that step ripples down the clear coat will build up and level but it can only do it so much so if you're highly outta level with your inlay then you need to sand that flush so that you get a really smooth layout as you can see we've scuffed and scratched the surface pretty heavily don't worry the epoxy is gonna hide everything any of your scratching blemishes and your sanding imperfections are going to be hidden with that second clear coat how do you get a really great finish here some pro tips mitigate the air movement turn off the AC close the doors and close the window those are great tips to get a really flawless finish also turn off the light so the bugs don't get attracted to their own reflection that's a good pro tip as well and if you're in the summertime it's okay that it's warm keep it nice and warm but if you got a dehumidifier and you're in the deep south or and you're in Florida you might want to use that dehumidifier that would help to keep in mind the epoxy will set up nice and gradual you got plenty of working time but with this second clear coat I'm gonna trial it I'm gonna chop it and I'm gonna torch those air bubbles out and then I'm gonna leave it alone you could come back and visit it look for your imperfections and pick out any little dust nipper or anything like that that you may see or you could sand and polish your surface if you want to learn more about standing and polishing check out the video in the link below all right guys let's get going you can see that I poured everything out in the center here the reason I do that is because I'm going to mix it again using my trowel I don't want to put little swirlies of epoxy everywhere so I mix it in the bucket with the drill I mix it on the surface with the trowel and then I mix it one final time while chopping the stone coat countertop triple mix strategy let's go alright so I poured all the excess I scraped the bucket right here so I really want to get in here and mix that out well look at how clear that is man that is just gonna be so pretty it really looks right once you do a clear coat it kind of blends the two together okay I got this side poured I'm gonna chop it now and I'm gonna torch it and then I'll mix the other side I don't need to be in a hurry I got plenty of working time but if I chop this and torch it it's gonna allow this to really start to level out as I'm chopping I'm really trying to get things to overlap the edge I want those drips to run down that's my reservoir so I could brush those edges out as well what I've really done here is I broke this up into two pours I got one pour on this half and then I'm gonna mix a little less because I obviously don't need as much on that half I've I've done the majority of this top so I'll mix up a little less and it gave me a gauge where I don't have to be in a rush to do this whole thing at once that's a pro tip only mix what you can work at one time and then mix another batch and continue on with your project even if you're doing a color coat you can follow that same process if you have a huge bar that runs 15 feet only do it in sections get that section done and then seam it together with your same techniques blow your torch out away from your piece and then torch your bubbles out another pro tip guys is when your torch II hold the base of your torch lock it open and you can reach really far with that torch and control it look at this here where you can see all the sanding scratches and then where the clear goes and how they're perfectly hidden all right let's mix up a little more you can see that this is a little bit more foggy than that clear that I just poured I ain't rained a little bit more air that's okay when I travel this out chop it and torch it it'll be crystal clear just like the other side because of the long open working time we can use a drill to mix our epoxy we have enough time to get that air out that was one of the really key benefits that we were looking for when formulating this product long open working times zero vo C one to one ratio you've got to have color capability it needs to be compatible with all sorts of additives to create these fun reactions user friendly this product was designed for the do-it-yourselfer and strong enough for the contractor who does this as a business guys when pushing the epoxy over your edge just get the leading edge of your trowel to push enough epoxy over to create a nice film that's gonna give you a beautiful finish and not waste anything okay that's the final couple of steps I'm gonna use my hands and really wipe those edges with my glove and I'm gonna look for anything that might be embedded in the surface like a piece of dirt a piece of dust a loose bristle I can use a razor blade or a toothbrush and pull those things right out I'm really really pleased with how this looks I can't believe the depth in the detail the vein that we put in yesterday I really like the transitions this looks like one piece of stone that was morphed together by Mother Nature and created these beautiful looks my brother and I have installed granite our whole lives and this would be classified super exotic granite and because of that it looks extremely expensive guys I hope you enjoyed this video if you got any value out of this content hit the like button stay tuned we're going to show you the flyover of how this looks you can see our next video of how we install this on site in our showroom and how we do a home show display visit us anytime at Stone coke countertops comm and until next time from Stone coke countertops you got this we'll see you on the next video [Music] but start where you're comfortable and work your speed up so you don't have to work too long on the project but if you mess it up you're working twice as long because you're redoing stuff right that's a good fun fact that's a fun hey we having fun no fun while you're working no solid labor [Laughter]

Channel: Stone Coat Countertops

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Length: 25min 34sec (1534 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 09 2019