Making the Great Lakes Stand Out with Epoxy Part 3 - Final Seal Coat

[Music] so make sure you check out the first two parts of this video series we show you how to pour epoxy into these routered out great lakes as well as how to do seal coats so that you don't have any air bubbles in your final product and today is finally that final shot here we're gonna do the flood coat over this we're gonna get our nice glass-like finish make sure you stay tuned it's gonna be good all right first thing we're gonna do is we have to put a couple of business decals we're gonna put those on um with permanent vinyl adhesives then we're going to pour our flood coat over it so you actually hear one how to flood coat a piece and then also how to do it over vinyl which is kind of a whole other tricky monster itself so for our final flood coat things you're gonna need you're gonna need some sort of vessel that's gonna hold enough epoxy so this particular uh piece is about three just under three feet by three feet so nine square feet need about three ounces of epoxy of the mixed epoxy per square foot to do your flood coat because it's going to be about an eighth of an inch thick just like before you're gonna need your drill with paddle for mixing i have an eighth inch by eighth inch square notch trowel here and that's what we're going to use to make sure we get a nice even coat before we smooth it out to help smooth things out you're going to need a little short um these little handy these little short brushes are kind of handy to help chop out our lines that we're going to leave with the trowel so that'll make a lot more sense as we get moving through this process here these short little brushes it's really important you get all the little loose bristles out of it because when we start working with the sticky epoxy it's going to pull anything that's loose out and it's going to get left in your final project and you have to pick those out hopefully before it hardens it's kind of a mess so again today we're using stone coke on our top epoxy so i'm going to use this 1 8 inch by 1 8 inch square notch trowel and use that to move my epoxy around i pour it in the center so i can kind of mix it ensuring that i get a good mix right now i'm just going to make sure i have enough to cover the whole area and then i'll start setting it over the edge i'm going to use my brush to help brush out the drip marks around the edge and then also to finish off the grooves they're going to be left from this trowel alright you see just moving it around starting to lose some of those bubbles it's starting to clear up get it moved around being real careful when i go over these vinyl stickers they don't end up roughing those up scratching them lifting up a little piece somewhere just getting the epoxy close to the edge definitely not sending it over the edge just yet i can move this stuff around from areas where i have a lot where i need it okay now that i'm sure at this point i'm gonna have enough epoxy i'm gonna start sending it over the edge it can be a fairly decent amount of epoxy it's going to go over if you feel like you sent too much over just use your hand to rub it in as i start to mow along around here this trowel is starting to leave some definite residual grooves i'm going to show you technique with the brush to get rid of those all right so i'm gonna grab my two inch chop brush and i'm gonna load it up with some epoxy first make sure as i'm kind of dragging through my gloves here i'm not losing any more bristles take some that epoxy out of my reserve i'm just going to start working the sides here it's just nice long brush strokes don't leave any choppy marks here this is getting out any drips that might have started to run down all right so right now it's not quite perfectly even the trowel helped you get a nice even coat somewhat around the piece but next i'm going to chop it out what i'm going to do is i'm going to hold the brush this way with the angle coming down towards me and i'm just going to hit it pretty hard in a random pattern all the way up and down that's going to take out any lines left behind by the trowel as well as finally even things out so let's get started here and i don't want to use a pattern this one this needs to be random gonna make some bubbles that's okay this will flatten out once we torch it make sure i go right to the edge so you can see what's happening here i'm pressing down and then pulling up is taking away those travel marks left behind as i'm doing this some more is getting shoved over the edges but that's okay i'm gonna come through and brush it again before i start torching it's gonna be dripping on the bottom that's fine i'm gonna go through later and grind that off all right looking pretty good a lot of bubbles have been encased in the epoxy though but i'm gonna take care of the torch momentarily now do the sweep of the torch i'm not gonna leave it one spot too long but i'm not just crazily going back and forth i'm just trying to knock the bubbles out you'll see them disappear as i swipe across what we're getting now is benefit from doing the seal coats and i have done any seal coats and just try to put a flood coat on top be constant air bubbles constantly fighting them and in the end you're just not it's not going to look very good it's going to look like you shot it with a shotgun so in this particular case we should end up with a nice flat glass like top so that was just one torching pretty much got most of the bubbles on that's the benefit of the epoxy being pretty warm so i'm going to hit it a couple more times every few minutes welcome back it's been about 48 hours since we did our flood coat on our map of michigan here and this advertising piece which is what it's turned into for us 12 marine michigan custom canvas they're out of jerome michigan so if you're in that area need any kind of boating needs service batteries check them out they're very helpful i'm really happy with how this laid out you can see that we don't have any bubbles coming up we don't have any sinkholes that have pulled our epoxy down we have a nice even flood coat over the whole thing that's thanks to those seal coats that we took the time and did at this point the project we just have our little drips that have hardened up on the bottom i'm going to use a grinder with a metal sanding disc on that to take those off then sand them down smooth and that's it this baby's ready to go typically after about 16 hours stone coat countertop epoxy will harden up stiffen up and it will be set at about 24 hours it's usually hard to the touch but still a little soft and at 48 hours now it's hardened up and i can touch this but still want to be a little careful with it epoxy is a lot like concrete where it's going to take seven days before it's you know pretty hard to start do it's hard enough to start doing things on it setting things on it about 30 days before it's fully cured and at its hardest point then i usually like to wait a couple days maybe three four days before i flip it over on its top and then sand off these little niblets here i will put put some sort of blanket down before i sand those off just to protect this beautiful finish so i think it turned out really nice our great lakes are inlaid our uh vinyl we ended up with a little because we layered the vinyl ended up a little black shine but i really kind of like that how the black gives it a little more depth almost looking at it so if you like what you saw make sure you pound that subscribe button down there make sure you like us on facebook and you get notifications whenever we have a new video out thanks for watching a viewer reached out to us said that they wanted this piece as an advertisement well that was super easy so boy that was easy i highly suggest everybody tries to put vinyl underneath of their flood coats because that went so smooth with these short little brushes it's really important that you get all the loose brussels brussels over there make sure you de-shed your brush

Channel: Northern Ridge Designs

Views: 6,103

Keywords: northern ridge designs, epoxy, stone coat countertops, great lakes, woodworking, resin, table, wall art, flood coat

Id: 3prKBEgXn3E

Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 17 2020