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RE: My Experience with Epoxy Finishing - atgcpaul - 10-11-2017 That looks great. The color change works but that is pretty drastic. What do the edges look after everything is dry? Does any epoxy remain there or is it all on the top and stalactites on the bottom? RE: My Experience with Epoxy Finishing - badwhiskey - 10-11-2017 (10-11-2017, 05:51 AM)atgcpaul Wrote: That looks great. The color change works but that is pretty drastic.I was greatly relieved that the epoxy flowed smoothly over the edge and they look really good. Here's a close up: I sanded the bottom smooth, so it feels pretty good. I got a little anxious about sanding through the finish and hitting the wood, that it is a bit wavy in parts. But the edges are the same glassy smooth as the top. If it wasn't radius edge, I'm not sure it would have flowed as well. RE: My Experience with Epoxy Finishing - mike4244 - 10-15-2017 (10-08-2017, 07:46 AM)badwhiskey Wrote: I posted awhile back about epoxy finishes for a dining room table. I thought I'd post the results of my efforts and a few lessons learned. You can avoid bubbles by heating the finish room to 80° or so and then apply epoxy after turning off the heat. Epoxy won't form bubbles on falling temperatures. If the piece was smaller heated with a heat gun first would work too. mike RE: My Experience with Epoxy Finishing - MattP - 10-22-2017 (10-08-2017, 05:00 PM)badwhiskey Wrote: Thanks all. You can repair an epoxy finish if it gets damaged. I've been experimenting with epoxy and sort of accidentally learned how. My first pour came out with waves in it. The problem there was I hit it with the heat gun while it was too viscous to flow out any more. So I took my random orbit sander with 120 grit and leveled it out until I had a uniform scratch pattern. Then rinse and repeat with 220, then switched to hand sanding to go up from 320 to 5000 grit (just because I don't have sanding discs any finer than 220), then Meguiar's #9 on a polisher with a terry cloth bonnet, then another hand polish to take out the swirls from the terry cloth bonnet and it was glass again and dead flat. I was doing a 2' x 1' MDF test piece and the whole process took maybe an hour. I wouldn't envy you the job of doing a complete refinish on that table, but it could be done. For small scratches that will develop over time from the bottoms of plates and coffee mugs, I would have complete confidence just using the polisher and the Meguiar's #9. |