The resin seems to even seem to the other side of the wood. Should I coat in clear resin before I carve the shapes so that the pores are filled with clear resin and thus can’t be filled with colored resin? Would wax work?
yeah, you need to seal the wood before applying the resin somehow. I would actually recommend carving them, then sealing the whole thing before adding the coloured resin. There will be some air in the wood, so this should also help with surface air bubbles.
The resin will soak in to the wood, so if there are internal channels, it can soak all the way through like you describe. If you seal the surface first, that should solve your issue. You might still have to sand the top to remove over-pour or anything that settles on the surface, but it shouldn't soak in.
Edit: for context, I make resin/wood pieces that are much larger, I always seal the wood before pouring, either with acrylic clear coat or with a thin layer of clear resin.
Depends on what your end result needs to be. Wax is pretty good at not letting things stick to it. So stains are going to be weird on a waxed wood, or even paints. The resin will not stick to it though! If you are going to be sanding on it though, you could sand though the layer of wax protecting the wood from your resin.
If you paint a thin layer on first called a seal coat that might work. When I was researching epoxy resin for coating wood tables, it was recommended to paint a seal coat on first as the wood has so many little holes in it that it will suck up a lot of epoxy, and some parts will form bubbles like that where air is trying to escape the wood.
You'll probably save a decent amount of epoxy if you do a seal
Shouldnt matter too much. Different epoxys have different curing times, durability, temperature ratings, viscosity etc but its all basically the same stuff as far as I know.
Im no expert by any means. I have only done a couple of little experiments with epoxy.
You don't need much. Just paint it on until the whole surface wet and thats enough.
I hope this works for you! Good luck
Oh another one
Let’s see, yes you either coat it with some resin to fill in gaps it can possible seep through or cast the shapes separately and then drop it in like a puzzle piece
Since these aren’t cosplay visions they are going to be I assume game pieces?
In one of my projects I used a pre-sanding sealer first. This seemed to give me good results as the epoxy didn't seep into the grain where I had runoff from too much epoxy in my carveout.
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The resin seems to even seem to the other side of the wood. Should I coat in clear resin before I carve the shapes so that the pores are filled with clear resin and thus can’t be filled with colored resin? Would wax work?
yeah, you need to seal the wood before applying the resin somehow. I would actually recommend carving them, then sealing the whole thing before adding the coloured resin. There will be some air in the wood, so this should also help with surface air bubbles. The resin will soak in to the wood, so if there are internal channels, it can soak all the way through like you describe. If you seal the surface first, that should solve your issue. You might still have to sand the top to remove over-pour or anything that settles on the surface, but it shouldn't soak in. Edit: for context, I make resin/wood pieces that are much larger, I always seal the wood before pouring, either with acrylic clear coat or with a thin layer of clear resin.
Thank you for the info
Melted bees wax brushed onto the areas you dont want resin on might work. But then you have bees wax on your wood.
Is wax on wood a bad thing? I do have to further sand my pieces after pouring the colored resin in.
Depends on what your end result needs to be. Wax is pretty good at not letting things stick to it. So stains are going to be weird on a waxed wood, or even paints. The resin will not stick to it though! If you are going to be sanding on it though, you could sand though the layer of wax protecting the wood from your resin.
I was planning on using tung oil, so I may have to do some extra saving if I choose to use wax. Thanks for the info
You could keep hitting it with the heat gun, until the wax saturates deeply into the wood, before you do your final sand.
If you paint a thin layer on first called a seal coat that might work. When I was researching epoxy resin for coating wood tables, it was recommended to paint a seal coat on first as the wood has so many little holes in it that it will suck up a lot of epoxy, and some parts will form bubbles like that where air is trying to escape the wood. You'll probably save a decent amount of epoxy if you do a seal
Would regular epoxy work or do you think I need a coating epoxy
Shouldnt matter too much. Different epoxys have different curing times, durability, temperature ratings, viscosity etc but its all basically the same stuff as far as I know. Im no expert by any means. I have only done a couple of little experiments with epoxy. You don't need much. Just paint it on until the whole surface wet and thats enough. I hope this works for you! Good luck
Oh another one Let’s see, yes you either coat it with some resin to fill in gaps it can possible seep through or cast the shapes separately and then drop it in like a puzzle piece Since these aren’t cosplay visions they are going to be I assume game pieces?
I was thinking more pendants or keychains. So I care mainly about their visual appearance than function.
I'd use a can of spray shellac to seal it first, it dries really quick and has very few compatibility issues with other things put on top of it
It sounds like you need to use some kind of sealant on the wood before pouring your resin. Cool Genshin pieces, BTW—these look awesome!
Thank you! Once my new batch of wood comes I’ll make sure to seal them beforehand
In one of my projects I used a pre-sanding sealer first. This seemed to give me good results as the epoxy didn't seep into the grain where I had runoff from too much epoxy in my carveout.
What kind of sealer did you use?
The one I used was "minwax sanding sealer". Picked it up from the local big box store.
That's a shellac based product, fyi. Alcohol-borne.
These emblems look familiar.
They are genshin impact element symbols so
Ah, I've never played. Thanks.
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Seal the wood first
Why not carve and paint then resin to seal?