 Hi, I'm Mike Billiard, and I'm a lure designer, and I live in central Minnesota, and most of the time I've been known for making weedless spoons for largemouth bass, but in addition to that I also make some small balsa wood handmade lures for fly fishing for bass also, and here's what they look like, and over the period of years of making this lure, I first, they're all handmade by the way, and then I paint them up and I normally coat them with a two-part epoxy, and that's worked okay for me over a period of years, but the only problem that I have with most of the epoxies out there is that they turn kind of a nasty yellow color after a while, especially been out on the water and in the sun exposed to the sunlight, and I've never really liked that because it kind of wrecks the look of the lure, and then somehow I found on the internet art resin, I'm not sure exactly how I came across them, but in their marketing materials, it's a two-part epoxy, it's used for a lot of different things, and you can find them at art resin.com, and it's used for a lot of different things, but in their marketing materials, it did say that it shouldn't yell, and I was pretty interested in that because I hadn't seen an epoxy yet that wouldn't yell on me, so I contacted them and told them I'd like to test it out, and they were nice enough to send me a small quantity of it for me to test. So this is my video review of art resin for the purpose that I'm using it for, and I'm not receiving any kind of monetary compensation, and I'm not connected or affiliated at all with art resin. This is just my review and my honest review of the product, so here goes. Well, here's what the finished lures look like. They're painted up and finished with art resin, and how I start out is I take a piece of balsa wood, put it in my lathe, and mark the ends where I want to cut it, and slowly start shaping it with sandpaper, until I get the shape that I'm looking for to start out with a rough shape, and then I take an emery board, and I shape them down into the actual shape of the minnow, so I can glue them a hook, actually, inside the body and get it ready for sealing. The next step after the glue dries, I put some sanding sealer on the balsa wood and let that dry, and it probably takes about a few hours for all of that to dry, and then I'm ready to start painting. In this case, with the art resin, I painted up a couple different types of medium. This is with an acrylic paint. I painted these with a Pache airbrush with acrylic paint, and the other ones I painted was with a Copic or Copic ink marker, and that's actually ink in those markers, and I airbrushed that also. So the finished products before coating came out to look like this in about three different colors, and what I did next is take a small amount of art resin, and the hardener, and mix it up very good for three minutes in a small little cup that I have, and I slowly started applying that to the lure itself. It went on very smooth. It went on pretty thick. I wanted to put a thick coat on just to see how fast it would dry, but it was very, very easy to just dip that into my little container and then put that on the lure. And then after that, after I got them all done, I put them on a rotisserie type of tool that I have right here, and once they're dried, which took about 24 to 36 hours, they came out very, very shiny and looked exactly like this. Well, that's the end of my review. So far, I can say that I'm very pleased with art resin. It seems to work really good. All of my lures, my balsa lures, seem to dry really hard, very shiny, and I'm anxious to put them on the water and test them out and see how they hold up with the sunlight. So I think it's a great product, and one thing about art resin that I found that's a little bit different than most epoxies, or two-part epoxies, is that when you are actually applying the finish to the lure itself, it's a little more forgiving than most epoxies. You do have a little bit more time before some of the stuff will start to sag. Now, as you saw in the video, I put it on a turner, so when it's rotating around, if it does start to sag, it will even out, and I will get a nice smooth finish. But the second part of this video should be coming sometime this summer. I'll give it a little testing time and see how it holds up to fish and the sunlight. So try some art resin. It's art resin dot com, and I think you'll really enjoy it.