 Video Friday with Art Resin. Hey guys, it's Friday, which means it's video Friday, and today I'm gonna be talking about layering. Pouring multiple layers or second layers. We actually have two different methods to do it. I'm not sure if you knew that, so I'm gonna walk you through both of them. The first one is the 24 hour method. This is the one that you see us use most often. So we poured our resin yesterday, and as you can hear, it's absolutely dry to the touch. So this method you would use if you had an imperfection, if you had or something you needed to repair, or you found a hair, or a bubble, or a bug in your dried resin. The most important thing to remember is when your resin is dry, you have to sand if you wanna pour a second layer. And the reason for that is you wanna create some tooth. You wanna rough it up so that the fresh resin layer has something to bond to. Okay, so for something like this, we usually use sanding paper to create that tooth. Okay, so I'm just gonna sand it down here with 80 grit coarse sandpaper. Okay, so it's all scuffed up. I'm just gonna get rid of all this residue here because we don't want that in our fresh pour. Okay, so this tooth, all these scratch marks here, that's gonna give some bite for the fresh resin layer to hang on to. Because if you poured fresh resin on a smooth layer, the two layers aren't gonna be able to adhere to each other. They won't be able to bond. And down the road, you might find that your second resin layer actually peels off. It delaminates off your first resin layer. So creating some tooth by sanding is super important. Another way you can create tooth is by painting on your dried resin that the paint itself will provide that tooth for the fresh resin layer to grit to. Okay, I'm just gonna torch here and you can see all those scratch marks have disappeared. Okay, so that is your 24 hour method. So the second method is called the three to five hour method. So if you wanna take a look down here, I actually poured this resin this morning. It's been sitting for about five hours and you can see it's kinda, it hasn't cured yet. It's still soft and pliable, right? It's thickened up, but it's still very pliable and it's still sticky as well. If I put my finger in there, it's still very tacky. Okay, so now with this method, because it's tacky, that's providing the tooth. I don't need to sand this and in fact I couldn't sand it because it's too sticky. So one instance when the three to five hour method would be a good choice is for something like this. For a wood board here that has a hole that requires like six or seven layers of resin. It's gonna take you six or seven days if you use the 24 hour method. So pouring every three to five hours would be perfect on a project like this. Another method is embedding. So if you wanted to embed something really light, like glitter, if you poured glitter into wet resin, it would just absolutely float away. So the three to five hour method is perfect. You can see for something like this, I'm gonna pour the glitter, it's just sitting where I want it to be. Also, if you're embedding something really heavy like rocks, if you poured these into liquid resin again, they would just float right to the bottom. So this method is super handy for embedding heavy items. And then last, if you're pouring into a mold or even something like this that has a really high lip and you wanna pour multiple layers again, this is super handy using the three to five hour method. Okay, so I'm just gonna show you. Now, because this resin that I poured this morning is still wet and tacky, this fresh resin layer is gonna stick right to it. The two of them are gonna bond with no sanding required. So that's it. Two layers of resin, two different ways. That's your video Friday. Video Friday with Art Resin. Oh, thank God that's over.