The Art of Crafting with Epoxy: A Step-by-Step Guide

As I begin to mix up my epoxy, I want to take a moment to explain the importance of proper technique when working with this material. Many people have asked me about my process and how I achieve such vibrant colors in my projects. The answer lies in the application of multiple coats of epoxy, rather than just one thin layer. By doing so, you'll not only ensure better adhesion but also a more even distribution of color.

In fact, I've found that applying two coats of epoxy can make all the difference in achieving that perfect vibrancy of color. Some people might be tempted to try and recreate my projects without fully understanding this concept, which is why I take the time to explain it in detail. If you're interested in learning more about epoxy crafting, be sure to subscribe to my channel and join me on future videos where I'll be answering all your questions.

Rock and Roll Revival

Music has a way of transporting us back to a particular time and place, don't you think? For me, there's nothing quite like the sound of classic rock 'n' roll to take me back to my teenage years. One song that instantly comes to mind is "More Than Words" by Extreme. I'm not sure why it holds such nostalgia for me, but there's something about the way the guitar riffs echo through the speakers that just feels like home.

Now, I know what you're thinking - how does this relate to epoxy crafting? Well, my friends, patience is a virtue when working with this material. Just as "More Than Words" takes time to build up to its crescendo, so too must we take our time when mixing and applying the epoxy. I'm currently working on a project that requires me to mix 20 ounces of epoxy, which will then be poured into a specific area to cure.

Drilling Holes and Installing Leg Assemblies

Next, I'll need to drill holes in the boards where the carriage bolts will be secured. These bolts are essential for holding the leg assemblies in place, which is crucial for creating stable and level cornhole boards. The legs themselves must be carefully positioned to achieve the perfect angle - about 10 degrees off-center.

To ensure consistency across all four legs, I'm using a paint stirrer as my template. This tool allows me to create a uniform space between the top of the board and the leg, which is vital for achieving the desired stability and balance. With the holes drilled and the leg assemblies in place, it's time to attach them securely with carriage bolts and wing nuts.

The Finished Product

After carefully measuring and drilling, I've now attached the leg assemblies to the cornhole boards. The result is a sturdy and level surface that's perfect for playing the game. Next, I'll take my board outside and put it through its paces - or at least, I would if the rain weren't pouring down! Instead, I'll have to settle for demonstrating my mad corn-holding skills in the comfort of my own home.

The Lighting Trick

To capture the perfect shot of my trickshot, I need a reliable lighting system. I've rigged up a camera on the first floor using a bag and some clever rigging - it's not easy, but trust me when I say it's worth it. With the camera set up and ready to go, I'm now going to attempt the blind shot of the century... or at least, that's what my friend is calling it! Will I succeed? Stay tuned to find out!

The Verdict

And so, our cornhole board project comes to a close - for now. If you've enjoyed this tutorial and are eager to try your hand at epoxy crafting, be sure to hit the like button and subscribe to my channel. With new content coming soon, you won't want to miss out on learning from me and getting up close and personal with some amazing projects. Until next time, happy crafting!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm gonna throw this blindly up the stairs and hit this in one ready all right can we do one two three that's not coming down three three two one what's up guys I'm Nick and this is build a build a place where we like to put the hippie and yippie ki-yay today we're making cornhole boards I still know why I called cornhole boards guys like sand bags bags bagging cornhole points many lose points and it's gonna be a pretty straightforward build there's a million videos out there on how to build cornhole boards so I'll actually link to a playlist of videos that I watch to learn how to build mine the dimensions are pretty straight forward you're gonna have a 2 foot by 4 foot surface for the boards I just went out and bought pre-cut 2 foot by 4 foot pieces of plywood because I don't have any real good way to get like a 4 by 8 piece of plywood home and I would really only need half of that and then the side you can use 2 by 4 so you can use 1 by 4 if you can go a little cheaper and do like I saw something that we've done with like 1 by 3s and whatnot what we're gonna use this one back for the side however we were gonna rip those one by fours out of a 1 by 12 the 1 by 12s were a little bit cheaper at the big-box store than just buying the 1 by fours and so I figure I just cut them on the table saw will be using pocket holes to put the box together I'm sorry if that's offensive to some people I love pocket holes you're not gonna see them in the final bill so I think they're totally fine in this application I'm going to use is a k4 system to do this but you can buy that you can use something as small as this do the same thing with pocket holes I'll link to this down below along with the k4 I think this one's like 20 bucks the little hand says it's time to get to work kiddies of course the camera wasn't running when this happened but I just had actually I'm looking at I got two of them on here the scariest non scary things you can have happen when you're reselling on a table saw is as what I just had happen and I of course like I said the camera wasn't running but you see this not in here well so that's a loose piece of wood inside a closed space so when you're cutting through like when you finish cutting through that is that part that not the whole thing will pop because literally you just freed up a little piece of wood inside there now since its contained it does go anywhere but it's I wish I would have the camera running because I because I jumped when it happen because it makes you think that like something went wrong and you have to immediately shut everything off so just keep an eye on it if you have like little knots like this on the edge of a wood when you're wrestling just be prepared for something like that to happen it's really not super dangerous but it is uh it's it's kind of horrifying when possible try to cut all your boards at the same time if your fence allow we're just gonna allow me to cook these all at 48 inches at the same time that way if I'm a forty seven and three-quarters let's say I shouldn't be that far off but if I am at least all of the boards are the same length so when I go to put them together I don't have to like figure out which board is out of whack and that's why I'm out of square so I just use something that it's flat and tall enough to come in here and then I just push that against the edge here then I just push that so it's flat against the edge and then I'm gonna tape those measure my final dimension on here cut them all at once okay now that the pocket holes have been drilled I've moved down here to the floor because I don't have a work space table big enough to assemble these on so I'm just gonna do them on the ground the two Pro tips to remember when doing pocketable joinery especially on these is since you've got pocket holes going in two different directions when you're assembling your pieces make sure that all your pocket holes are pointing this the correct direction in this case I'm going to assemble the corners first I want all my pocket holes to either be facing up or down you just want them all facing the same direction second Pro /am tip just the tip get just just remember that you're working with two different thicknesses of material or at least I am in this build so my sides are 3/4 my top piece of ply is happen I'm gonna use a shorter screw to attach the plywood to the base than I am the base to itself other than that just make sure your quarter square no oh yeah and just another crack a lot of times you can just look around the shop and look for something that's kind of the width of this that's round that you can use to to cut off cut the edges off the top here just look for something that's handy if you have a bottle of whiskey that's the right shape you can always use a compass but where's the fun in that and then you're just gonna grab your jigsaw and cut them out okay it's the next day the boxes went together really well I'm really happy with how they turned out next step I have stenciled the lettering onto the box and I'm getting ready to carve it if you guys are gonna try to make these to sell them I would probably say skip this part if somebody wants lettering on it I would do like a vinyl stick on letter or something like that because you're gonna eat up any kind of profit or anything you were gonna make in time and materials because I'm actually gonna pour epoxy in this - this is something I'm doing for a friend so we're we're doing a little bit a little bit extra to make the corn hole itself the Bunga s-- of the board the the cornhole bung cornhole hole it is 12 inches on center and nine inches from the top is where the center of the hole and then we get out her friend mr. six inch hole saw it's gonna cut this out with a jigsaw because when I went to Home Depot they looked at six and twelve sauce and they're like 45 bucks and I was like no freakin way the game plan was always to jigsaw this and then and then I just happened to look on the Amazons and I found a six inch hole saw for like 15 bucks so I ordered that business and now we're gonna get to work okay so here we are we got a coat of stain on them last night these two penetrator pretty well what I want to do is I want to get a coat of finish on them prior to doing the epoxy pour and the reason being is because I don't want any of the epoxy to seep into the wood sometimes when you have a cut line it will seep into the small micro cracks and you'll see like a little kind of spider webby pattern around or lightning pattern or some sort of pattern it's a pattern man trust me I'm using my new my new best friend here a little Kryolan lacquer I just like the way this stuff goes on it's just it dries in 15 minutes I'm waiting longer than that we're just gonna put a little finish on these legs fun story and this is not a sponsored video by any means but I started wearing me on these and they're super comfortable so I found that I only wear me on days now to wear anything else so I'm actually using my old boxer briefs to put this on just such you know that probably didn't you're probably really doesn't to know that the client yeah yeah I use my old underwear to to finish your legs she's cool with it so a lot of you guys have asked me about like finishing techniques and when I put stain on a lot of times I just put it on and take it off at the same time because I'm not really normally going for anything real deep so I see that that's that's on and off already like there's no extra static if you want to go for a darker color or you want it to be a little bit more vibrant especially if you're using like the colors like blues and reds and things like that you may want to let it sit a little bit longer but what I'd like to do with those is to put one coat on wipe it off and then go back over with a second coat and with do a heavy second coat and less fit and a lot of times that'll give you better results as far as vibrancy of color that I've gotten a lot of comments about people saying that when they do and they try to recreate one of my projects they're not getting that vibrant color and that's that's probably why I kind of spin through it in the video so you don't see it so I figured I would take the time to kind of explain that hey if you like what we're doing here subscribe to this channel and I promise I will continue to answer all of your questions in future videos so the rock and roll guy if you haven't figured that out I'm gonna like money my old rock and roll music I like my my hair bands from it so I just listened to a song that I would say this song reminds me of high school more than any other song and that is more than words by extreme I don't know why maybe it was just because it was played a lot I didn't have like a really serious like long-term relationship or anything so I don't know where that comes from but what song takes you back to something like high school college or like a really memorable time comment down below I'm just curious because there's certain songs that will come on and I can't help but be there I guess all right is epoxy poor time if and I don't think you can but if you can hear that air-conditioning blowing it's because I turn it down so we have a good time to cure I do is I'm going to measure up probably 20 ounces and go from there but right now I'm going to mix this stuff up let's get to work alright while the epoxy securing upstairs we are going to just drill holes and knees to accept our carriage bolts because it's a one by four it's three and a half inches it's three and a half inches wide half of that is 1 8 1 and 3/4 inch you're gonna manager in and down 1/2 3/4 inches to find Center and then I'm just chilling these out with the quarter inch bin so we have poured Zee epoxy and it is good and it looks pretty damn good so there is one board here is the other and now we need to cut and install the leg assemblies so that's what I'm doing right here regulation cornhole boards need to be 12 inches off the ground so I've stacked up a paint can and this very expensive spacer or piece here which isn't expensive it's just a piece of wood that I broke off take it out and this now measures 2 Z 12 inches sector is the edge of the bench to find my angle is transfer that angle over to here which looks like it is a little over 10 degree results may vary whoops and I might use one of these as a template okay now we're gonna attach the legs basically you're just gonna lay it down here flat and then you just want a little bit of space in between the top of the board and the leg so I'm using a paint stirrer why I'm a using a paint stirrer because it is readily accessible and this space doesn't matter as long as it's consistent on all the legs I'm just gonna put that like that okay now we're gonna use the hole that I already have here you take a carriage bolt push it through yourself a washer and then just take your wing nut tighten it down on here but this way if it gets loose they can always go in there tighten it up alright guys so the cornhole boards are done and I was gonna take him outside and I was gonna show you my mad corn holding skills but it's like pouring down rain so we're gonna have to settle for my dude perfect ask trickshot observe we have the cornhole boards here lighting we have these stairs that I will be down downstairs on the first floor blind shot into the hole baby all right where is let me get a bag all right we have a bag turn on the camera so you got that going I can go downstairs ignore the lighting the lighting or the lighting hold on baby gate all right set this down I'm going to set you here lock-in all right it's gonna work I've got a second all right okay here we go oh wait I'm gonna throw this blindly up the stairs and hit this in one ready all right come again one two three that's not coming down three three two one all right I can do this my never ma'am okay I have no no way to throw okay three two one no way holy guys did you see that no one shot not one shot alright guys if you liked this video hit that like button if you haven't already subscribed baby and until next time well okay hmm let's get to work youI'm gonna throw this blindly up the stairs and hit this in one ready all right can we do one two three that's not coming down three three two one what's up guys I'm Nick and this is build a build a place where we like to put the hippie and yippie ki-yay today we're making cornhole boards I still know why I called cornhole boards guys like sand bags bags bagging cornhole points many lose points and it's gonna be a pretty straightforward build there's a million videos out there on how to build cornhole boards so I'll actually link to a playlist of videos that I watch to learn how to build mine the dimensions are pretty straight forward you're gonna have a 2 foot by 4 foot surface for the boards I just went out and bought pre-cut 2 foot by 4 foot pieces of plywood because I don't have any real good way to get like a 4 by 8 piece of plywood home and I would really only need half of that and then the side you can use 2 by 4 so you can use 1 by 4 if you can go a little cheaper and do like I saw something that we've done with like 1 by 3s and whatnot what we're gonna use this one back for the side however we were gonna rip those one by fours out of a 1 by 12 the 1 by 12s were a little bit cheaper at the big-box store than just buying the 1 by fours and so I figure I just cut them on the table saw will be using pocket holes to put the box together I'm sorry if that's offensive to some people I love pocket holes you're not gonna see them in the final bill so I think they're totally fine in this application I'm going to use is a k4 system to do this but you can buy that you can use something as small as this do the same thing with pocket holes I'll link to this down below along with the k4 I think this one's like 20 bucks the little hand says it's time to get to work kiddies of course the camera wasn't running when this happened but I just had actually I'm looking at I got two of them on here the scariest non scary things you can have happen when you're reselling on a table saw is as what I just had happen and I of course like I said the camera wasn't running but you see this not in here well so that's a loose piece of wood inside a closed space so when you're cutting through like when you finish cutting through that is that part that not the whole thing will pop because literally you just freed up a little piece of wood inside there now since its contained it does go anywhere but it's I wish I would have the camera running because I because I jumped when it happen because it makes you think that like something went wrong and you have to immediately shut everything off so just keep an eye on it if you have like little knots like this on the edge of a wood when you're wrestling just be prepared for something like that to happen it's really not super dangerous but it is uh it's it's kind of horrifying when possible try to cut all your boards at the same time if your fence allow we're just gonna allow me to cook these all at 48 inches at the same time that way if I'm a forty seven and three-quarters let's say I shouldn't be that far off but if I am at least all of the boards are the same length so when I go to put them together I don't have to like figure out which board is out of whack and that's why I'm out of square so I just use something that it's flat and tall enough to come in here and then I just push that against the edge here then I just push that so it's flat against the edge and then I'm gonna tape those measure my final dimension on here cut them all at once okay now that the pocket holes have been drilled I've moved down here to the floor because I don't have a work space table big enough to assemble these on so I'm just gonna do them on the ground the two Pro tips to remember when doing pocketable joinery especially on these is since you've got pocket holes going in two different directions when you're assembling your pieces make sure that all your pocket holes are pointing this the correct direction in this case I'm going to assemble the corners first I want all my pocket holes to either be facing up or down you just want them all facing the same direction second Pro /am tip just the tip get just just remember that you're working with two different thicknesses of material or at least I am in this build so my sides are 3/4 my top piece of ply is happen I'm gonna use a shorter screw to attach the plywood to the base than I am the base to itself other than that just make sure your quarter square no oh yeah and just another crack a lot of times you can just look around the shop and look for something that's kind of the width of this that's round that you can use to to cut off cut the edges off the top here just look for something that's handy if you have a bottle of whiskey that's the right shape you can always use a compass but where's the fun in that and then you're just gonna grab your jigsaw and cut them out okay it's the next day the boxes went together really well I'm really happy with how they turned out next step I have stenciled the lettering onto the box and I'm getting ready to carve it if you guys are gonna try to make these to sell them I would probably say skip this part if somebody wants lettering on it I would do like a vinyl stick on letter or something like that because you're gonna eat up any kind of profit or anything you were gonna make in time and materials because I'm actually gonna pour epoxy in this - this is something I'm doing for a friend so we're we're doing a little bit a little bit extra to make the corn hole itself the Bunga s-- of the board the the cornhole bung cornhole hole it is 12 inches on center and nine inches from the top is where the center of the hole and then we get out her friend mr. six inch hole saw it's gonna cut this out with a jigsaw because when I went to Home Depot they looked at six and twelve sauce and they're like 45 bucks and I was like no freakin way the game plan was always to jigsaw this and then and then I just happened to look on the Amazons and I found a six inch hole saw for like 15 bucks so I ordered that business and now we're gonna get to work okay so here we are we got a coat of stain on them last night these two penetrator pretty well what I want to do is I want to get a coat of finish on them prior to doing the epoxy pour and the reason being is because I don't want any of the epoxy to seep into the wood sometimes when you have a cut line it will seep into the small micro cracks and you'll see like a little kind of spider webby pattern around or lightning pattern or some sort of pattern it's a pattern man trust me I'm using my new my new best friend here a little Kryolan lacquer I just like the way this stuff goes on it's just it dries in 15 minutes I'm waiting longer than that we're just gonna put a little finish on these legs fun story and this is not a sponsored video by any means but I started wearing me on these and they're super comfortable so I found that I only wear me on days now to wear anything else so I'm actually using my old boxer briefs to put this on just such you know that probably didn't you're probably really doesn't to know that the client yeah yeah I use my old underwear to to finish your legs she's cool with it so a lot of you guys have asked me about like finishing techniques and when I put stain on a lot of times I just put it on and take it off at the same time because I'm not really normally going for anything real deep so I see that that's that's on and off already like there's no extra static if you want to go for a darker color or you want it to be a little bit more vibrant especially if you're using like the colors like blues and reds and things like that you may want to let it sit a little bit longer but what I'd like to do with those is to put one coat on wipe it off and then go back over with a second coat and with do a heavy second coat and less fit and a lot of times that'll give you better results as far as vibrancy of color that I've gotten a lot of comments about people saying that when they do and they try to recreate one of my projects they're not getting that vibrant color and that's that's probably why I kind of spin through it in the video so you don't see it so I figured I would take the time to kind of explain that hey if you like what we're doing here subscribe to this channel and I promise I will continue to answer all of your questions in future videos so the rock and roll guy if you haven't figured that out I'm gonna like money my old rock and roll music I like my my hair bands from it so I just listened to a song that I would say this song reminds me of high school more than any other song and that is more than words by extreme I don't know why maybe it was just because it was played a lot I didn't have like a really serious like long-term relationship or anything so I don't know where that comes from but what song takes you back to something like high school college or like a really memorable time comment down below I'm just curious because there's certain songs that will come on and I can't help but be there I guess all right is epoxy poor time if and I don't think you can but if you can hear that air-conditioning blowing it's because I turn it down so we have a good time to cure I do is I'm going to measure up probably 20 ounces and go from there but right now I'm going to mix this stuff up let's get to work alright while the epoxy securing upstairs we are going to just drill holes and knees to accept our carriage bolts because it's a one by four it's three and a half inches it's three and a half inches wide half of that is 1 8 1 and 3/4 inch you're gonna manager in and down 1/2 3/4 inches to find Center and then I'm just chilling these out with the quarter inch bin so we have poured Zee epoxy and it is good and it looks pretty damn good so there is one board here is the other and now we need to cut and install the leg assemblies so that's what I'm doing right here regulation cornhole boards need to be 12 inches off the ground so I've stacked up a paint can and this very expensive spacer or piece here which isn't expensive it's just a piece of wood that I broke off take it out and this now measures 2 Z 12 inches sector is the edge of the bench to find my angle is transfer that angle over to here which looks like it is a little over 10 degree results may vary whoops and I might use one of these as a template okay now we're gonna attach the legs basically you're just gonna lay it down here flat and then you just want a little bit of space in between the top of the board and the leg so I'm using a paint stirrer why I'm a using a paint stirrer because it is readily accessible and this space doesn't matter as long as it's consistent on all the legs I'm just gonna put that like that okay now we're gonna use the hole that I already have here you take a carriage bolt push it through yourself a washer and then just take your wing nut tighten it down on here but this way if it gets loose they can always go in there tighten it up alright guys so the cornhole boards are done and I was gonna take him outside and I was gonna show you my mad corn holding skills but it's like pouring down rain so we're gonna have to settle for my dude perfect ask trickshot observe we have the cornhole boards here lighting we have these stairs that I will be down downstairs on the first floor blind shot into the hole baby all right where is let me get a bag all right we have a bag turn on the camera so you got that going I can go downstairs ignore the lighting the lighting or the lighting hold on baby gate all right set this down I'm going to set you here lock-in all right it's gonna work I've got a second all right okay here we go oh wait I'm gonna throw this blindly up the stairs and hit this in one ready all right come again one two three that's not coming down three three two one all right I can do this my never ma'am okay I have no no way to throw okay three two one no way holy guys did you see that no one shot not one shot alright guys if you liked this video hit that like button if you haven't already subscribed baby and until next time well okay hmm let's get to work you\n"