**Tips and Tricks for Working with Penetrating Epoxy**

When it comes to working with penetrating epoxy, there are several tips and tricks that can help ensure a successful project. One important thing to note is that penetrating epoxy behaves differently than other types of epoxy. It's thinner and more prone to melting through containers if mixed in excess.

To avoid this issue, it's best to mix up only small amounts of penetrating epoxy at a time. A good rule of thumb is to start with an ounce or two and then adjust as needed. It's also helpful to have a way to measure the epoxy accurately, such as using a scale rather than relying on increments on the container.

Another important thing to consider when working with penetrating epoxy is the curing process. According to the label, the ambient temperature must be between 65 and 80 degrees for the epoxy to cure fully. To ensure this condition is met, it's best to work in an area that can be cooled down to 70 degrees. This will give the epoxy a longer working time and help prevent it from curing too quickly.

When mixing penetrating epoxy, it's also important to know your ratios. In this case, the ratio is three parts A to one part B. To calculate this, simply divide the total amount of epoxy needed (in ounces) by four, then multiply that number by three. This will give you the exact amounts of each part needed.

It's also a good idea to mix the epoxies separately before combining them. This will help prevent the parts from getting mixed together too quickly and ensure that they're fully incorporated into the final product. Additionally, make sure to read the label carefully and follow any instructions for mixing and curing times.

One issue that can arise when working with penetrating epoxy is color. If you're trying to achieve a specific color, it's best to use a high-quality pigment specifically designed for epoxy. In this case, the creator of the project ordered a different type of pigment to achieve a more accurate red color. The new pigment was able to cure slightly more and resulted in a truer red color.

Finally, when working with penetrating epoxy, it's essential to have the right tools and materials on hand. A good pair of gloves is always necessary, as well as a mixing surface that can withstand the chemicals involved. With these tips and tricks, you'll be well on your way to creating beautiful and effective projects using penetrating epoxy.

**The Creator's Experience**

Unfortunately, the creator of this project had a bit of a setback when it came to color selection. The initial red pigment they ordered resulted in a pinkish hue rather than the desired red color. However, by ordering a different type of pigment specifically designed for epoxy, they were able to achieve a more accurate and desirable color.

The creator also found that they needed to adjust their mixing ratio slightly to get the desired result. By dividing the total amount of epoxy needed by four and multiplying that number by three, they were able to ensure that each part was properly mixed together.

**Patron Recognition**

As always, the creator would like to extend a special thank you to their patrons, who make this project possible. A shout-out goes to Jim Carter, who recently joined as a patron, despite being forgotten in previous videos. Additionally, the following patrons are recognized for their ongoing support: nyx of greek, stephen mann, eric weiss, derek coates, caveman ross, chuck faulkner, puppy muffins, and mike penrod.

**The Final Project**

With all of these tips and tricks in mind, it's time to get started on the project. The creator has mixed up a combination of red and black penetrating epoxy, which will be used to create a beautiful beach-themed effect. As they work, they're aware that the color may need to be adjusted slightly, but with their new pigment selection, they're confident in their ability to achieve the desired result.

As the project progresses, the creator is excited to see the final product come together. With patience and attention to detail, they know that this will be a truly beautiful and effective piece of art.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enrocking and rolling rocking along what's up guys i'm nick and this is build dad build just the tip and today we're talking about epoxy but first what do you think about this mug you dig that mug or you want to check out their selection uh i'll leave a link down below and if you use promo code build 15 you get 15 off your order plus free shipping now let's go to the garage okay first let me preface this by saying i am not an expert hold on one second dude i am not an expert by any means when it comes to epoxy i mean really i'm pretty much a professional idiot so these tips are definitely going to be for beginners these are just some things that i've learned along the way or some mistakes that i've made that hopefully if i tell you about them you won't make that being said let's get on to tip number one of just the tip here we have a sign that we are going to fill with epoxy we're going to fill everything that i routed out with epoxy epoxy is expensive and therefore i don't want to mix up any more epoxy than i absolutely have to right and normally if you're going to pour epoxy you can use an epoxy calculator like the one on total boat site i'll link it down below but you give it a height times width times depth situation and it'll tell you how much to pour out however i would have to go in and figure out the dimensions of each one of these letters to do that so the first tip is we're gonna fill this whole thing with sand just regular old playground sand i just wouldn't pick this up i thought i had some but i didn't so i had to go to the hardware store and pick some up you're welcome we go stabby stab with the pointy point grab yourself a cup from the good old days i used to drink beer out of you and we go scoopy scoop in the sandy sands okay and you can go as accurate as you want with that i'm i know that i'm not going to pour this up to the edge of the carve because if i do that since it's burned it might run out into some of the texture so i'm gonna leave it a little bit like this but you can come in and you get the drift you can you can sweep it up until it's perfect and then and then we grab this bad boy just an empty pen this might be a horrible idea now that i think about it work better than i thought and i know that i need about 40 ounces we'll we'll probably round it up probably like 48 just to have a little bit extra but i knew i need about 48 ounces of epoxy but nick you ask how do you get rid of the rest of the sand send it okay now we are in bdb central uh this is where the magic happens kids this is where all the video editing and whatnot goes on and i'm in here because i'm fortunate enough to be able to uh control the temperature of this room separate from the rest of the house so that's a tip coming up but i'm sitting up here with the sign and we are not gonna mix up our 48 ounces of epoxy yet because tip number two first we need to seal this piece and the way i'm going to do that is i'm going to use penetrating epoxy okay everything i use in this video is going to be by total boat i'm gonna use three different products i'm gonna use penetrating epoxy i'm gonna use deep pore epoxy and then i'm gonna use tabletop epoxy that can get expensive you could probably pull this off with just tabletop epoxy if you didn't carve this this deep tabletop you can only pour up to a quarter inch deep so you could probably get away with just using that and using the tabletop mixing up a little tiny amount of this tabletop to seal everything but i have penetrating epoxy so i'm going to use penetrating epoxy by the way kids epoxy is expensive so i'm going to leave a code down below for total boat it'll get you 15 off your first order if you want to get into something like this because it's not a cheap hobby okay so a couple more tips before we get started one read your labels so many people ask in epoxy groups like what temperature that they need to be at and things like that the answer is almost always it depends on the product so once you pick something up check the optimum temperature for that product it should stay on the label it should give you a range of like 10 to 15 degrees or something you know somewhere around there two make sure you prep everything ahead of time because the last thing you want to do is when working with this to like have to go run and get something while you're in and cut into your working time i'm going to start with penetrating epoxy i've already touched on it once but i just need to reiterate you want to seal whatever you're going to put epoxy in if it's made out of wood because if not you're gonna get air bubbles and possibly leaks i've seen people seal with like lacquer and stuff like that that kind of makes me nervous and penetrating epoxy behaves a little different it's a lot thinner you want to mix up a very small amount if you mix up too much which i've done it will get so hot that it'll melt through the container i still do not have a good way to calculate how much penetrating epoxy i need so i usually mix just like an ounce or two i'll probably mix a little bit more because the sign's so big and just go many tic tacs later okay we're back uh it's been a couple of days kind of jacked up my back so i took it easy this weekend so the penetrating epoxy has had at least 48 hours to cure we should be totally good there now my next tip is i'll read your labels again okay so we're going to be using total boat thick set it says right here for epoxy to cure fully the ambient temperature must be between 65 and 80 degrees so i have the ac cooling down to 70 right now i found the lower end of that to give you a little bit longer working time remember we already figured out we're going to do 48 ounces i'm going to measure that on a scale i found it measuring on the scale as opposed to using the increments on these containers this is the scale's more accurate but read your labels the reason i say that is but i've been told by other people that work with epoxy that different epoxies some of them just go strictly by fluid ounces or it has to be measured like in a container i don't quite understand that but i don't math very well another tip along the lines of mixing epoxy is make sure you know your ratios so this is a three to one mixing ratio i know i need 48 ounces so here's a trick i use i'm gonna take 48 i'm going to divide it by four right which is what 12 and then i'm going to take that number and times it by 3 36 so i know that i need 36 ounces of part a because this is the three and i need 12 ounces of part b okay so this is kind of a do-it-your-own risk you could mix the epoxies up separate for the black and the red i am going to just pour off about eight ounces of the red and pour it where it needs to go and hopefully that's going to be enough if not i will add a little bit to it and then pour the rest black when you're mixing epoxy make sure that you get it all off the bottom off the sides read your labels it'll tell you how long to mix it i think this is three to five minutes don't skimp on your mixing because if you don't get it fully mixed the parts of it won't cure and you're gonna be a very unhappy camper now let's glove up and get to work beaches be so much better if this is going to be like a beach themed thing anyway okay i'm not liking the way that red looks we're gonna let it sit for a second and see what happens so i'm gonna mix with the black okay i didn't like the way that that red was looking because it wasn't red it was hot pink so i ran to the local like hobby store and picked up i don't know where i put it now i picked up some liquid pigment concentrate i don't have a lot of experience with this but the only red mica powder they had there was magenta which is still pink much better all right guys that feels like enough tips for this video i did kind of get burned there with that color i ordered this this is eye candy baku red it looked super red and actually still the powder even looks really red but when i mixed it up it was really pink looking it actually cured a little bit more red but it still wasn't the red i wanted so i'm happy that i went out and picked up the liquid pigment i think that looks much better i think that red is much truer to the company's colors so let me know if you learned something in the comments down below or if you have any questions leave those in the comments down below too maybe we'll do a part two of epoxy just a tip and as always none of this would be possible without my patrons thank you guys i'll line them up right down here i'm gonna give a single shout out to jim carter who just joined actually joined a couple weeks ago and i keep forgetting to shout him out sorry about that gem but clinkies my man appreciate it and as always there are my boilermakers my top tier patrons nyx of greek stephen mann eric weiss derek coates caveman ross chuck faulkner puppy muffins and mike penrod the highest of clinkies to you folks and until next time thanks for playing and now i gotta get to workrocking and rolling rocking along what's up guys i'm nick and this is build dad build just the tip and today we're talking about epoxy but first what do you think about this mug you dig that mug or you want to check out their selection uh i'll leave a link down below and if you use promo code build 15 you get 15 off your order plus free shipping now let's go to the garage okay first let me preface this by saying i am not an expert hold on one second dude i am not an expert by any means when it comes to epoxy i mean really i'm pretty much a professional idiot so these tips are definitely going to be for beginners these are just some things that i've learned along the way or some mistakes that i've made that hopefully if i tell you about them you won't make that being said let's get on to tip number one of just the tip here we have a sign that we are going to fill with epoxy we're going to fill everything that i routed out with epoxy epoxy is expensive and therefore i don't want to mix up any more epoxy than i absolutely have to right and normally if you're going to pour epoxy you can use an epoxy calculator like the one on total boat site i'll link it down below but you give it a height times width times depth situation and it'll tell you how much to pour out however i would have to go in and figure out the dimensions of each one of these letters to do that so the first tip is we're gonna fill this whole thing with sand just regular old playground sand i just wouldn't pick this up i thought i had some but i didn't so i had to go to the hardware store and pick some up you're welcome we go stabby stab with the pointy point grab yourself a cup from the good old days i used to drink beer out of you and we go scoopy scoop in the sandy sands okay and you can go as accurate as you want with that i'm i know that i'm not going to pour this up to the edge of the carve because if i do that since it's burned it might run out into some of the texture so i'm gonna leave it a little bit like this but you can come in and you get the drift you can you can sweep it up until it's perfect and then and then we grab this bad boy just an empty pen this might be a horrible idea now that i think about it work better than i thought and i know that i need about 40 ounces we'll we'll probably round it up probably like 48 just to have a little bit extra but i knew i need about 48 ounces of epoxy but nick you ask how do you get rid of the rest of the sand send it okay now we are in bdb central uh this is where the magic happens kids this is where all the video editing and whatnot goes on and i'm in here because i'm fortunate enough to be able to uh control the temperature of this room separate from the rest of the house so that's a tip coming up but i'm sitting up here with the sign and we are not gonna mix up our 48 ounces of epoxy yet because tip number two first we need to seal this piece and the way i'm going to do that is i'm going to use penetrating epoxy okay everything i use in this video is going to be by total boat i'm gonna use three different products i'm gonna use penetrating epoxy i'm gonna use deep pore epoxy and then i'm gonna use tabletop epoxy that can get expensive you could probably pull this off with just tabletop epoxy if you didn't carve this this deep tabletop you can only pour up to a quarter inch deep so you could probably get away with just using that and using the tabletop mixing up a little tiny amount of this tabletop to seal everything but i have penetrating epoxy so i'm going to use penetrating epoxy by the way kids epoxy is expensive so i'm going to leave a code down below for total boat it'll get you 15 off your first order if you want to get into something like this because it's not a cheap hobby okay so a couple more tips before we get started one read your labels so many people ask in epoxy groups like what temperature that they need to be at and things like that the answer is almost always it depends on the product so once you pick something up check the optimum temperature for that product it should stay on the label it should give you a range of like 10 to 15 degrees or something you know somewhere around there two make sure you prep everything ahead of time because the last thing you want to do is when working with this to like have to go run and get something while you're in and cut into your working time i'm going to start with penetrating epoxy i've already touched on it once but i just need to reiterate you want to seal whatever you're going to put epoxy in if it's made out of wood because if not you're gonna get air bubbles and possibly leaks i've seen people seal with like lacquer and stuff like that that kind of makes me nervous and penetrating epoxy behaves a little different it's a lot thinner you want to mix up a very small amount if you mix up too much which i've done it will get so hot that it'll melt through the container i still do not have a good way to calculate how much penetrating epoxy i need so i usually mix just like an ounce or two i'll probably mix a little bit more because the sign's so big and just go many tic tacs later okay we're back uh it's been a couple of days kind of jacked up my back so i took it easy this weekend so the penetrating epoxy has had at least 48 hours to cure we should be totally good there now my next tip is i'll read your labels again okay so we're going to be using total boat thick set it says right here for epoxy to cure fully the ambient temperature must be between 65 and 80 degrees so i have the ac cooling down to 70 right now i found the lower end of that to give you a little bit longer working time remember we already figured out we're going to do 48 ounces i'm going to measure that on a scale i found it measuring on the scale as opposed to using the increments on these containers this is the scale's more accurate but read your labels the reason i say that is but i've been told by other people that work with epoxy that different epoxies some of them just go strictly by fluid ounces or it has to be measured like in a container i don't quite understand that but i don't math very well another tip along the lines of mixing epoxy is make sure you know your ratios so this is a three to one mixing ratio i know i need 48 ounces so here's a trick i use i'm gonna take 48 i'm going to divide it by four right which is what 12 and then i'm going to take that number and times it by 3 36 so i know that i need 36 ounces of part a because this is the three and i need 12 ounces of part b okay so this is kind of a do-it-your-own risk you could mix the epoxies up separate for the black and the red i am going to just pour off about eight ounces of the red and pour it where it needs to go and hopefully that's going to be enough if not i will add a little bit to it and then pour the rest black when you're mixing epoxy make sure that you get it all off the bottom off the sides read your labels it'll tell you how long to mix it i think this is three to five minutes don't skimp on your mixing because if you don't get it fully mixed the parts of it won't cure and you're gonna be a very unhappy camper now let's glove up and get to work beaches be so much better if this is going to be like a beach themed thing anyway okay i'm not liking the way that red looks we're gonna let it sit for a second and see what happens so i'm gonna mix with the black okay i didn't like the way that that red was looking because it wasn't red it was hot pink so i ran to the local like hobby store and picked up i don't know where i put it now i picked up some liquid pigment concentrate i don't have a lot of experience with this but the only red mica powder they had there was magenta which is still pink much better all right guys that feels like enough tips for this video i did kind of get burned there with that color i ordered this this is eye candy baku red it looked super red and actually still the powder even looks really red but when i mixed it up it was really pink looking it actually cured a little bit more red but it still wasn't the red i wanted so i'm happy that i went out and picked up the liquid pigment i think that looks much better i think that red is much truer to the company's colors so let me know if you learned something in the comments down below or if you have any questions leave those in the comments down below too maybe we'll do a part two of epoxy just a tip and as always none of this would be possible without my patrons thank you guys i'll line them up right down here i'm gonna give a single shout out to jim carter who just joined actually joined a couple weeks ago and i keep forgetting to shout him out sorry about that gem but clinkies my man appreciate it and as always there are my boilermakers my top tier patrons nyx of greek stephen mann eric weiss derek coates caveman ross chuck faulkner puppy muffins and mike penrod the highest of clinkies to you folks and until next time thanks for playing and now i gotta get to work\n"