 these angry mushrooms oh almost done hold on please oh pretty good flag jump hey this is the intro to the longest video on the internet about how to resin your puzzle so this is a puzzle that we did and we love when the new Nintendo whatever came out it's on wood and then we coated it in art resin so watch this video to see how to do this with your puzzle if you like puzzles and you want to save them join us on this adventure and we're happy to have you come along good okay back to work here we go alright so we finally finished our puzzle it looks great now what I'm gonna do is just take the measurements and then head out to the garage to cut the wood or underneath our puzzle so this one looks like it's 18 inches on the dot by 24 inches on the dot write that down or you can just check the box but I wanted to make sure it wasn't like an eighth of the inch off or something Jeff okay so I'm just using this it's just a scrap piece of wood that we have in the garage but it's it's perfect for this because it's just three-quarter inch MDF so it's thick enough that it's not gonna warp over time that's the main thing I mean when we're building canvases they tend to like to use birch because you can get really thin and it holds up without warping so my first cut I'm just using this table saw I'm just gonna set it to 24 inches lock it in there safety glasses and I have to plug it in okay it's gonna be noisy perfect and then 18 inches alright there's our board so let's head inside and we're gonna glue the puzzle to the board as first step and then prepare it for the resonant come on in Jeff when we did this in the past we kind of learned some things about resonant puzzles and that is that puzzles are all different qualities this puddle puzzle is fairly cheap and what can happen with that is I'll show you an example now Jeff if you can get nice and close here as you can see the resin actually kind of soaked into the edges of each crack and it left a darker black line just because you know when you get cardboard wet it looks darker so puzzles that are really absorbent you're gonna want to pre-seal them and that's what we're gonna do with this one and to do that all that we're gonna use is craft glue this is just Elmer's white school glue you can pick it up absolutely absolutely anywhere nothing fancy here just putting a lot of glue on here you know what we got our white glue on here and we're just gonna do that you don't have to be super exact with this because the resin itself is really gonna hold the puzzle down too so good enough it's good to build your puzzle actually on something we built on this piece of plexiglass just so you can move it around and you can make this next step a heck of a lot easier okay so now watch this you think so I'm gonna do this by myself just show Patty that you know if you're at home alone you know you have a bunch of cats you're just sad you can just do it on your own look at this and just slide this one out smooth cool like a cucumber and bam this craft glue you can just kind of push it around the surface someone help me guys don't laugh all right and we're back so I actually had to get some help because if you're gonna slide it on the top like just be very very gentle but you do have a bit of room to play when you put it on there so I'm just gonna push it all down nice and hard so now the next step and we're doing this step to avoid what we talked about earlier about the puzzle lines darkening is we're gonna just put a coat of Elmer's glue on the top to just seal it and again this is just so that the lines don't darken so we like just using craft glue because it's easy to find even at the dollar store it always drives clear and it's cheap so for today this is all that we're gonna do because we're gonna let this dry overnight and then we'll come back tomorrow and we're totally ready for the final resin coat done and we'll see it tomorrow all right it's the next day and this looks perfect I'm still doing a bit of prep till I get the resin poured and actually the pouring the resin is actually very very fast it's all the prep work and making sure that it works well that really takes the time so there's a tiny bit of an overhang on this side so I'm just gonna turn it over and trim that with a knife the nice sharp knife and I'm also gonna find a piece of wood so I don't cut into this tablecloth and it's a nice thick clear shower curtain because then when you pour the resin it just picks right up just want to protect your surface because the art resin is a glue basically right so just take this board and just nice low-patient cuts sharp new blade makes everything easier beautiful the next step is we're gonna put tape on the bottom of this actual piece of wood because when the resin drips over the side it's gonna create little drips all the way along because we'll have it raised up but if we have tape just painters tape it'll just peel right off the next day and you'll have a nice clean tidy edge if you don't put the tape that's okay you can file them off sometimes you can even stick a chisel underneath the drops and just kind of pick the drips off just do it right do it once and use painter tape on the edge you'll be happy you did so it has a cure time of 24 hours meaning that after 24 hours it'll feel hard to the touch but if you pushed with a fingernail you could actually put a little dent into the surface it'll self heal so you won't stay there but the actual full cure time is three days till it's really hard like stay until you want to start tap dancing alright which I recommend do you go to the belly nope do you ever dress up in tights again how long that take two minutes one minute but it's worth it just do the prep work and you'll save yourself more time later that's the truth for anything in life isn't it Jeff actually wrote a book about it it's called do the work prep work and it'll make everything easier okay so the next step is I'm going to raise this up just a bit off the surface again so that this doesn't get stuck to your actual table you're working on and then I want to make sure it's perfectly level these are painters triangles that you can get at a hardware store in the painting section usually now they're great but they're ridiculously expensive so even though I have those just look around your house and steal things from your baby these work fine all you're doing is lifting it up you don't have to go and buy these but you can if you want to and then the last thing that we want is these are called wood shims it's basically a piece of wood that's a really long thin triangle so if I need to raise up a corner I have my stand and then I have a wood shim underneath it if I need to raise up this corner you just slide the wood shim in further right fantastic little trick so everyone's got a smartphone and there are tons of level apps this is a good level because it has both directions at once this one's just called dual DUAL level what this level is telling me is I could raise the side for this to wave me up a bit and this corner has to go up the highest so I'm gonna raise this corner the highest and then I'm going to also raise this corner quite high to bring up that whole side look at that next step once you're done right putting resin on you have to let it sit overnight so I always start by knowing what I'm gonna cover it with when it's actually done and there's hair dust bugs all those things can go and land in your art resin and ruin it basically right because we resin a lot of stuff we just have this room here full of different shapes and sizes of boxes right you know like lids to like paper boxes and stuff just save all that kind of stuff because it becomes very useful great so we're level it's raised we taped up the bottom next I'm gonna put gloves on because I'm gonna start using resin these ones are called nitrile gloves and they also have some chemical resistant properties you can wash art resin off of your hands but it's like a glue so this is mostly so that you don't get all sticky and dirty right there's no VO season it so I don't have to wear a mask and it's very low odor which is fantastic so I'm gonna need a mixing cup my resin and a stir stick yeah you ever so organized that you lose things this is a resin spreader it's great because see these notches see that so imagine if let's go down to the painting you'll see how this goes you're dragging the thick resin across the surface but these notches allow for some of the resin to stay right so that's spreader and then I pulled out one of these stir sticks and these are great too because you can also peel the resin right off of them and reuse them so we buy our mixing cups at the dollar store let me show you something so this is a juice jug what's cool about this is I finished resigning something then just put it upside down on your even on a scrap piece of paper or piece of cardboard but watch this the whole thing just peeled right out and it's a brand-new mixing container of course you have to do some measuring so having something with lines on it sure does help the good thing about our resin is it's an equal one to one mixing ratio so you can just visualize how much you need that being said how much resin do we need to cover this that's a great question I'm gonna do some math so on art resin dot com at the very bottom there's what's called the resin usage calculator and you just type in your dimensions and then you will see how much resin you'll need and what size bottle you would be best for you to purchase so you're not wasting too much of course like anything the more you buy the better the value and once you do this you're gonna want a lot of resin because you're gonna love it and this is the strongest glue in the universe resin hardener mix the two together you have 45 minutes to work with it oh yeah resin hardener mix the two together you have 45 minutes to work with it art resin comes with these lids in the top and that's just so that it doesn't spill during shipping the easiest way to get these out cut a hole in it stick your finger in it pull it up let's go look how clear it is the key to stirring art resin is one do it long enough and two you want to scrape the bottoms and you want to scrape the sides because each part on its own is super sticky and if you don't keep scrape the sides in the bottom then unmixed material stays on the side in the bottom and then when you're pouring the resin on to your actual puzzle or art or whatever you're making and what that leaves is that leaves some sticky spots right because it was on the side that wasn't mixed in general we say stir for three minutes it's just a good rule of thumb all I do is I stir until I say to myself that seems like about three minutes and then I count 30 seconds it's foolproof so let's talk about other resin things resin is very temperature sensitive so when we talk about how long the pot life is and everything we're talking about room temperature if you want it to cure faster you heat up your room the hotter the room the thinner the resin is so it will self-level more and the bubbles will come out easier and opposite the colder your room is the thicker the resin so it won't go out as far but the bubbles have a harder time excuse me the bubbles have a harder time the bubbles have a the bubbles will have a harder time coming out when it's cold okay I'm finished with the stir stick I'm just going like that but a big about a boom set it down any extra resin was drawn there I can keep reusing that using that how I like to do it usually as I pour a bunch in the middle and then I kind of circle around to just put it everywhere you know the more you can kind of pour it out the less spreading you're gonna have to do you can kind of see here how the resin is moving on its own you want to be super thick like that so if it could self-level all by itself now what you're gonna do is just gonna take your spreader and you're just basically pushing it around so we're not brushing we're pushing and just drag it all over the surface and again I'm not wearing a respirator because there's no VOCs so you don't have to a VOC is a volatile organic compound and basically what that means in resin is if you were to use some filler or some cheap additives to make it look like there's more resin those cheap things when the chemical reaction happen they evaporate they basically are meant to just leave so they're shrinkage and there is stuff in the air that you don't want to be breathing in you could make epoxy resin for very cheap and with a lot of money but you know you're sacrificing certain things in the quality including yellowing and and health so you won't find a clearer resin I'll tell you that you can do just try your best and don't give up that's all you can do okay and we're almost done here believe it or not and the next step is everyone's favorite step using a torch or a heat gun should get rid of all the bubbles this is a butane torch kind of a good intro torch it's refillable with butane so butane is lighter fluid the same thing that's in your lighters now this is my all-time favorite it's what I started with and it's what I always use it's propane propane is way easier to find it's cheaper he's always the best tool for the job so this torch is fantastic you don't have to use a flint or anything you just turn on the gas you'll hear it see that and then you push the button there's a flame like that that's perfect a couple things when you're torching think of it like ironing with ironing you don't hold the iron in one place right don't hold the torch in one place or you'll you'll find it burns a bit and it'll leave a little tiny little dip do you think you could focus on some bubbles okay like right here again just moving it quickly back and forth you know I'm about an inch off the surface maybe two inches off the surface and then I'm just gonna just systematically go back and forth this part just so cool if you just see it become perfect right right in front of your eyes so torch off the last step is we always keep a box or little containers of toothpicks around and then we also have light schooling you look into the reflection of the light and then you can see if there's any tiny pieces of dust or hairs and usually there are a couple looks good sometimes it's a little single bubble you want to coax up I'm putting on one more gloved hand and I'm gonna just rub the sides just to help they're not being in any drip lens right take this box all right so that's done well let's sit overnight again tomorrow will be hard to the touch and we'll be able to see how it looks okay see you tomorrow check check we're back so it's day three overall the resin for is fantastic exactly what we want I don't see any hairs but you know what we had two mistakes actually and at first I was like oh crap the video is ruined but now me and Jeff talked and we're just gonna tell you what we did wrong so that you don't make that same mistake and also if you do make the same mistake we're gonna show you how to fix it so number one this edge along here we didn't put enough glue to pre-seal it look at it soaked through the actual cardboard and left some marks so that's disappointing and the other thing we did remember when we cut with the exacter knife we didn't seal that edge so it was exposed to the resin you can see it's soaked in through the sides of the exposed cardboard because we cut it and resin didn't think about that so don't do that okay but don't worry here's what we're gonna do we're gonna head to the garage and we're going to sand it with a power sander I'm just using 80 grit sandpaper you can really use any type you just want to make it so it has some tooth so when we pour the next coat on top it's going to really grip the two layers will really stick together luckily the only part that it really soaked in is over yellow so I'm gonna sand it then we're gonna cheat and we're gonna paint yellow acrylic paint over top and then let that dry and then resin it and you know while we're at it I'm actually just gonna paint all the sides yellow but I think that will look nice so that's what we're gonna do let's do it so I sanded the entire thing not only the spots that we're painting over just because I'm gonna pour an entire new coat so I wanted the resin to stick everywhere so it gets all white and scratchy don't worry about that as soon as we pour the next coat on that will all disappear so I just mixed up some yellow I'm just gonna do this not the ideal way to do this but at least they will show for watching what not to do and how to deal with problems exactly you can use a brush I always paint with like my hands and paper towel and I sell my paintings for millions of dollars if you want to buy a painting for sale so don't worry I'm gonna come over it and tie it up just kind of covering everything I think I should all right so I'm just gonna let this dry and I'm gonna come back and do a second coat of paint along the edges just because it was so dark so I want to be a nice vibrant yellow but overall I feel just fine about it as Jackson Pollock said there is no accident or maybe he said there's no such thing as an accident really those Jesus anyways we'll see you soon okay all right so I just poured my hopefully final coat over this I'm just doing the final thing spreading it so I have about three square feet so it's four ounces per square foot so I mixed just a bit over 12 ounces just to be sure now everyone in the office is making fun of me and saying like Dave you ruined it Dave this looks like garbage start over blah blah blah and I'm like no this was a happy accident it's gonna look fine just relax so what I'm gonna do though is I'm gonna cut with a table saw I'm gonna take it take the table saw and cut about one inch off of the whole thing just to get rid of this another bunch of the painting area and then the edges it'll cut through the through the epoxy through the puzzle through the wood and it'll be that perfectly clean edge so I think that with this final perfect coat and the cuts you're gonna see it's gonna look great it was discouraging it was hard it was disappointing but you can figure it out and you're gonna say you know what Dave's pretty darn clever and he kept his cool oh no I gotta torch it okay so I'm just gonna do the final torching like we said then cover it get out of here we will be back it should be perfect at this point then we'll just cut it hang it and admire it and yeah so hopefully if you learned like what to do what not to do how to fix your errors how to go with the flow how to take a mistake and turn it into an opportunity there is no accident Rebecca's after me oh mother case I'm like I said just cover it get out of here and I think we should be done beauty okay good so that's the final coat and I'm super happy with that last coat looks fantastic it's hard to the touch in three days when it's gonna be much harder especially if in your warm room it cures faster in a warm room so now I'm just gonna cut the edges and you're gonna see it's just gonna make a perfect edge I'm gonna leave it with unfinished wood instead of painting the sides and then just add the hanger on the back and we made it noisy all right I gotta plug it in great looks awesome okay so we'll just figure out a way to hang it and call it a day so do you like this new tool petty I need to see it in action first yeah so what we're doing here is you know how when you would get a plaque when you were young of like the blue jays when they won the world series or I had one of a tiger running on a beach so if you look in the back there's two circles and then there's a thin line in between and you slide the screw in that's what we're gonna try and do on the back here right we are going to attempt it and hope for the best yeah I've never done this before but I went to the store and I got this thing it's called a keyhole bit so what we're gonna do is we're gonna drill two holes and then in one of the holes we're just gonna slide this along so it kind of cuts under the groove so set the depth well that's what we're gonna do now all right I think we're ready to do this who's excited I am so that's about center and about like that so I'm gonna do a circle there and a circle there and connect the lines what do you think here we go oh that's beautiful look at that it's just purring like a kitten oh yeah yeah we did it all right look at that isn't that beautiful watch this screw head in and slide over yeah do you understand that at home you at home so it makes a slot it makes a slot underneath the wood and there you have it folks now all we have to do is hang it up and enjoy it yes right okay so from doing this it worked great but next time I'll get a piece of wood and put it right on this plate and clamp it on there is a guide so if I want a nice straight line with this keyhole bit then I'll just slide along the guide but that's how you learn right so stay fit and have fun wow that is perfect that was a long journey but in the end we have this beautiful piece and it can go on a wall and we'll remember forever this anyways if you have any questions or comments please leave them below we love you I hope you love this and I hope you have a good day today thanks for watching back to out Mario three lives isn't enough whoa