 Hey everyone! I've got a beautiful project to work on today. I'm really excited about this one. It's a beautiful serving tray. Amazing thing about this one, it's got this natural hole which we're gonna fill with layers and layers of crystal clear resin. It's going to look beautiful when it's done. So because this is raw wood, wood is so porous it tends to really really soak up the resin. So what we're gonna do is put a really thin pre-coat of resin with a gloved hand and when that dries then we're gonna be able to put our final coat on. It's gonna look amazing. Okay so what we're gonna do first is mix up our resin and because I'm using a gloved hand for this pre-cut we don't need a huge amount. So I'm just using these little plastic glasses here and I'm gonna mix it up in this glass with a popsicle stick. Resin here. Okay now our hardener. So we've got level amounts here. Alright so now I've got my plastic cup. Gonna pour both these guys in here. We've got to stir for three minutes making sure that we scrape the bottoms and sides as always. We don't want any unmixed resin so you might notice on my surface here I've got a shower curtain. We use table cloths or shower curtains they work equally well. The great thing about it they are not expensive so you know you can use them a few times and dispose of them if necessary but the great thing about it is when the resin drips and cures you can just peel it right off like how easy is that. It's not gonna stick to anything so it's a really really handy thing to have on your work surface. When your hand starts cramping then you know you've mixed it. Good so we have our wood here and I just wanted to show you we've got the tray on these little painters supports here and we've also got some shims. These are super handy to keep and what we use them for is just adjusting. You can put them in on each corner and just adjust the height as you need to according to your level. So what I'm actually gonna do is flip it over and start with the back and the reason I'm gonna do that is I'll end with the top of the tray and then any drips are gonna drip below. Okay so just flip it over here and with a gloved hand. This is the fun part and like I said this raw wood is just gonna soak up this resin so I'm gonna make sure I do the the sides here as well and the reason for that because wood is so porous it's really affected by humidity and moisture so if this tray happened to get wet and the sides weren't sealed it would absorb moisture you'd get expansion and contraction you might get cracking even more pain possibly so we're just gonna seal it and make sure it's completely water and airtight. Look at how beautiful and rich the wood looks when you put the resin on it just glows it's so beautiful. Then my finger's too big to fit right inside these crevices so I'm gonna use this brush here just to make sure it is completely sealed. Okay now we're ready to flip so same thing on this side just make sure this is totally covered here. Okay so I think I've got every little crevice here with the brush so normally at this point obviously our next step would be to to torch out bubbles but I'm not gonna do that because wood is gonna off gas like crazy so I'm gonna torch this and two minutes later there's gonna be lots and lots of micro bubbles anyway. At this point these tiny little micro bubbles don't don't matter so don't worry about them right now. We're gonna sand down the whole thing both sides but I'll show you that at the next stage. Hey guys so we have our tray here after the first pour it looks beautiful so I just wanted to point out a couple of things to you though so you can see here remember yesterday I mentioned the wood is just gonna soak up the resin like crazy and you can see some dry spots here. Dave had a really good analogy yesterday he said it's like pouring resin on a dry sponge you're gonna get spots where it just soaks it up like crazy and a few dry spots too so I'm gonna give this a sanding because there are also those little bubbles where the wood gassed or off gassed yesterday and then because I used the glove tanned the glove just sort of pulled some of the the loose bits of wood especially from in here so there are a couple of spots here where there's shadings and wood bits so what I'm gonna do first is I'm just gonna pick these out just me as a utility knife and pick these out here okay so we're just gonna give this a light sand seems like kind of counterintuitive to be doing this you know like you're ruining it but it's gonna be fine okay so I've sanded down the front I'm just gonna flip it over and you can see here all the little drips that it formed so we're just gonna sand these down as well and watch how easily these come out you know what this is gonna take a while I'm just gonna go out and buy a sander come on let's go shopping we're going to Lowe's I love hardware stores it doesn't matter what kind when I was a kid my dad used to take me to the hardware store and my favorite thing to do was to go bring all the doorbells I used to drive it around crazy and there you go they did at least the one that we went to well I don't know if Lowe's has that I don't know if they do or not I haven't done it for a long time this is what I used to do for ages that's like a clock I'm gonna be here a while sorry I'm busy so that's how you do it so they'll be different different grits yeah there's 80 okay so we're back from our shopping trip got the belt sander got my safety goggles and I am going to sand this piece of wood here with this process seems like when you have like dense stuff in wood it's a bit of like it's like pouring and then sanding and then that reveals like even this is low and then you'll pour again you'll probably do this for this to make it perfect you might even do this like two more times really even three more times yeah all right that feels good so dust it off take it back downstairs and we'll continue with our resin and now I'm ready to do another coat of resin I did wipe down all the dust with a damp cloth but just to be on the safe side I'm gonna use this spray here just again to get into all those little crevices oh yeah there's a lot of dust coming off there okay so actually what I'm gonna do is just put a very very thin coat with a gloved hand just on the bottom I'm gonna let it dry and then tomorrow we'll flip it over and then I'm gonna start my layering okay so I've got some resin mixed up here and again I want to be really really um frugal with the resin this is not going to be the final coat so sometimes um you know because wood is not even it's not always level um you might have to do this resigning sanding resigning sanding step a couple of times and that is totally okay and normal so that first layer that we did yesterday is really going to help because it's soaked into the wood so when we put this layer on um it's going to sit on top we won't have those patches okay so I've got my very very thin coat of resin on here we're gonna cover it up leave it overnight and we'll continue on starting our layers tomorrow here we go see you tomorrow hi there so we are ready to do our next coat of art resin on our wood tray so what I'm going to do now is um I took a piece of acetate here and I cut out a small piece to fit over the hole in the wood so what I'm going to do is tape it on uh to create a base for our first layer and you can see I also taped around the edges um here on the underside so to protect it from any drips when we resin the top side okay so I'm just going to tape this guy on and we're going to flip I'm just going to give it a quick spray with the dust spray now um I've got my resin here in its baby bath so I'm just going to pull this out again okay so we're going to do a little bit more than a shot glass of each one because I'm going to do um again with a gloved hand I'm going to cover the top but I'm also going to need enough for my first base layer there's one and here we go stirring stirring and stirring three minutes scraping the bottoms and sides okay great so I've stirred my art resin and I'm ready now to do a very thin coat with my gloved fingers and it's totally normal if you have to um sand and resin and sand and resin a few times especially with a natural material like wood okay so now that this is coated in a nice thin layer of art resin I'm ready to pour my base layer in the hole here so I'm going to do like a really thin layer like an eighth of an inch just because I don't want any bubbles we've got our acetate below to contain the resin so just again to err on the side of the caution because the hole actually goes underneath where I can't see so I'm just um tilting it a bit just to make sure that the resin is hitting all of those spots there and then it's going to self level and I'm just going to torch out the bubbles okay so I'm just going to rest them again on these little um lifters here we're going to leave it for 24 hours and then we're going to pour our next hope and we'll start building up our layers so we're ready now to start our first um layer of building up this the resin in the hole here yeah it turned out really well and now we're just going to pour really thin a succession of really thin coats uh torch the bubbles out and we're going to do it every two hours just to build up the layer of resin um in the hole here we're going to end up sanding this entire thing down again um just to make our resin in the hole a flush to make this nice and flat so I'm not too worried about the rest of it right now pour it in try not to let it run too much up the sides here okay it's looking good I'm going to get my torch here I'm going to torch out these bubbles okay so then we're going to cover this we're going to wait two hours and then we're going to pour another thin layer and we're just going and going until we're fill the hole okay so we're ready to put our very last coat of resin over the hole in our tray here uh and once this cures tomorrow we're going to sand down the uh the tray to make it completely level and then we're going to put our final coat of resin on okay so here goes the last coat okay perfect so I'm just going to torch it one more time to get those bubbles out awesome it looks like glass beautiful okay so we're just going to cover this up and tomorrow we're going to sand see you then all right so I'm going to jump in now and do the next part which is preparing the surface for our did you see the yellow card in the yellow cup and yellow glasses and the yellow knife so here's where we are we have filled up this whole bit by bit it looks awesome then we did our final top pour just on this area and we're going to do one like last sand over the whole thing to make everything totally level and I'm going to do the top and the bottom just to make everything perfect so lots of sanding here I'm going to use this belt sander which makes it so much easier than on the bottom I'm just going to put just a sealant on it just a varnish or something just it'll be fine like that'll look great and on the top we're going to do our final perfect pour on the top and then we'll be done so to start I'm just going to take off all of this tape including right here where we have our piece of acetate right so watch how this peels off so nice look at that see and that's why you put it there look how nice that is beautiful so I'm going to sand the heck out of the top and the bottom so that's perfect all right here we go are you excited Jeff well it sounds fake because the last control now is all right here we go you're excited just go all right here we go and the top this one will take a bit longer but we'll get there here it goes awesome that's it perfect so everything is perfectly flush and that just helps to get the dust off of the sander Joanne is going to take over again and do our final final top coat then we'll so we're going to take it off again and then we're done looks great so we are ready to put our final coat on this beautiful tray it's sanded right down to the wood okay so we're going to put our final coat on I've got everything I need here it's already taped on the bottom I've got my torch my toothpick my silicone mat my spreader I've got my cover here for when I'm done so I'm all set to resin I've mixed one part resin one part hardener mixed it well for three minutes stirring the sides and the bottom and we're ready to pour and start in the middle here so you see how the where it was sanded it's all sort of cloudy and scratch but that is going to come up clear clear clear what's this resin's on here and cures grab my spreader here and I'm just going to start pulling hands to the edges okay and it's okay if it runs over the side I've taped it on the bottom so I'll just run my gloved finger over the sides if we have any resin that spills over this is gonna look so so so pretty the art resin really really brings out the beauty of the wood it just makes it glow you can see all the grain ah look at the center it looks so awesome run the gloved hand along the edges just to smooth it out all right now it's time to torch okay bye bye bubbles there they go so I've got my toothpick candy so I'm just gonna have a quick look here and see if I missed any bits or if there's any bit of dust it looks absolutely beautiful I'm so excited so we're gonna cover it up and I'm gonna come back maybe in about 10 minutes and just run my finger along the edges once again because just to help get rid of some of those drips make life easier tomorrow um and then again tomorrow once this is cured we're gonna flip it over and just do a really really thin coat of resin on the bottom side to finish it off and it's gonna look so beautiful okay so we'll cover it up and we will see each one here we are and we're at the last step now of our serving tray so this has been curing and look at how beautiful it is it looks gorgeous really like glass it's so beautiful so the last step now um you can see it's all kind of scratched on the bottom here from being sanded on the on the flip side so we're just gonna turn it over and we're gonna put a final um rub of resin not a full coat we're just gonna rub resin in with the gloved hands on the back side and you can see here they're like all the drips got caught on this painter's tape which is awesome and the sides look fantastic so I can just pull off the tape and pull off all those drips okay and if you have no nails like me uh this is a good time to pull out your exacto knife here we go let's just lift right up perfect okay so we got all the little bits of tape off and now we're ready to our final coat of resin on so I've got my resin here all mixed for three minutes and we just need a little bit because we're gonna rub it in now you could also use um a varathane to finish this off you know something like uh this kind of thing you can get in any um hardware store the thing is that these are really highly highly toxic and I don't know about you but I would way prefer to use the resin that's non-toxic and safe for my health so that's what I'm gonna use it's up to you put some on my glove here and rub it in look how rich it makes the wood look because this is so beautiful okay so this is our last step I'm gonna cover this up and morning we'll see the final final reveal okay see you then hey guys we're back with our finished piece of wood here and look at how gorgeous it is if you remember we filled up this hole with layer upon layer of art resin look how beautiful it is and not only is the wood glowing and it makes the most beautiful serving tray but in case you're wondering art resin it's absolutely food safe it's non-toxic and certified by the FDA here you go point of the tea