 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 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 Precoat 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 the level amounts here All right, so now I've got my plastic cup Gonna pour both these guys in here. We've got a 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 I 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 the 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 fingers 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 It's the 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 in 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