- Tabletop, surface coating, top coating, quick coating,
deep pouring, thick setting, winter coat, top coat,
hot and spicy coat of arms.
I mean, it just feels like there are a thousand epoxies
out there.
How do you choose which one when?
Which one do you choose for which project?
That's a lot to consider.
Here's the secret.
All the epoxies that you see out there,
well, 95% of them, boil down to just four different types.
Let me clear the air and explain each one.
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As usual, you know what I need.
My whiteboard.
(chair dragging on floor)
Let's talk fruit.
I've drawn really quickly for us, an apple, an orange,
a banana, and a bunch of grapes.
Each one of these is gonna represent a type of epoxy.
Also over here, you're gonna see a pie, a beautiful glass
of orange juice, some bread and well, a glass of wine.
Now keep in mind all of these are fruits, but they're all
very very different and have different applications.
An apple is delicious in pies.
An orange, well, that's a good way to start the morning.
Bananas.
It makes my all time favorite bread, banana bread.
If you'd like to send me some banana bread I'm not gonna be
mad at you.
And grapes.
Well, grapes make the most important thing on this board
Now yes, these are all fruits, but not each one of these
works for all the other applications that we have over here.
For instance, I don't want anything to do with banana pie
and I don't want to deal with grape bread either.
They would just get hot and it would be like a nasty
gushery fruity situation.
That sounds terrible.
All right, so each one of these fruits, well it coordinates
to a certain type of epoxy.
If we look at our apples and we can call that
our surface coating.
You might've heard of this as a tabletop.
I'll represent that with TT, tabletop.
Our orange, let's call that our more UV resistant.
That's gonna have that extra juice in there to make sure
it doesn't yellow nearly as quickly.
Our bananas, we can call that our quick curing.
And then lastly, we have our grapes down here.
Let's call that our deep pours.
These four types of epoxy, that's it.
I mean, that's 99% of the epoxies that you see out there
on Amazon, online and all these YouTube videos.
They're one of these four types.
So what are these four types of epoxies good for?
And what are they not good for?
Well, for surface coatings and tabletop epoxies,
tumblers, counters.
That stuff is perfect for it.
It's made for that.
For UV resistant stuff.
That's where art comes into play.
Photo encapsulations, stuff you want to protect
and have it not yellow so quickly.
Now quick carrying epoxies.
Perfect for sealing wood, for fast coatings.
When you need to keep going on a project
and you don't want to wait 24 hours for something to cure.
And then deep pore epoxies are obviously perfect
for river tables, large castings and you still want
beautiful clarity.
Now these four types of epoxy are great,
but this isn't enough information I don't think.
I think you need more details.
I'm not gonna be able to talk through all the other
competitive products out there because well, I don't have
all those details, but I do have our details.
So let's use our products as the examples.
So let's spin this board around and I'll talk through
these products.
I'm such a Vanna White.
What a good job.
I bet you it's really hard.
I bet you, she makes it look easy.
Anyways. (laughs)
All right, here's our chart.
Here are our four epoxies.
This is Amazing Clear Cast.
That's our surface coating or tabletop.
Amazing Clear Cast Plus, that's our UV resistant one.
Amazing Quick Coat.
That's our fast curing and then Amazing Deep Pour.
You guessed it, our deep pour epoxy.
On this side I've got some attributes that we should
talk about.
Depth, speed, air release, UV resistance, hardness
and then applications again because that's really why
you're here.
All right, so for depth, for Amazing Clear Cast
and Amazing Clear Cast Plus you're looking at about
3/8 of an inch.
Not quite half of an inch.
For Amazing Quick Coat, it's an eighth of an inch.
Remember that's a fast setting epoxy.
So we're dealing with more exotherm there.
Can't pour as deep.
And for Amazing Deep Pour, well that's two inches.
That is ideal.
All right, let's talk (feet scamper)
speed!
I threw you off didn't I, Matt? (laughs)
I definitely threw you off.
Gotcha!
All right, let's talk speed.
For Amazing Clear Cast and for Amazing Clear Cast Plus,
you're looking at about a 24 hour tack-free time.
Depends on your temperature so always keep that noted.
Amazing Quick Coat though.
Hey, yo! Four to six hours.
That's fast.
Hence, Quick Coat for Deep Pour though, you need time.
24 to 72 to get that tack-free.
Depends on your temperature again.
Is this fully cured?
No, that's still five to seven days or three to five days
depending on your product.
Next up air release.
Here's the thing I'm gonna shoot you straight.
We formulate all of these to have amazing air release
for their applications.
I've put best over here for Amazing Deep Pour,
so that you realize a two inch pour is gonna take a lot
of air release in order to get that crystal clear.
That's why Amazing Deep Pour is water thin so that
the bubbles can get out of there.
But keep in mind, it's water thin.
It's not gonna do a good job coating a tumbler.
Go ahead, pour water on your tumbler and let me know
how much of it stays on.
UV resistance.
I think you can predict this one.
The best on this board is definitely the UV resistant epoxy.
Hmm, wonder why?
I will say though, we do formulate every one of our epoxies
though, to have fantastic UV resistance as much as possible,
within that formulation though.
But if you're looking for that extra juice
(ruler taps white board)
you want an ACC plus.
Second to last, let's talk about hardness.
That's shore hardness on the D scale.
What is that?
Well, maybe I should put out a video about that.
If you want to see that video maybe subscribe.
That one will come out in the future.
Anyways, you can see that ACC, AQC and ADP,
it's a lot of acronyms, are 80 on the shore D scale.
That means that they're really hard and really durable.
But not that far behind is Amazing Clear Cast Plus,
with 75 D.
These things are as hard as like construction worker
hard hats.
There's nothing soft here folks.
Why should you care about hardness?
Well, fact that we've made these really, really strong
just means that it's gonna be a lot more durable.
It's gonna be harder to ding up your projects
and scuff 'em.
Last but not least, le pièce de résistance
is the applications.
When should you use this stuff right?
So for a surface coating epoxy, like our Amazing Clear Cast,
this is for believe it or not, surface coating.
Small castings, countertops, stuff where you're gonna pour
on a flat surface or a rounded surface that you're gonna
rotate consistently and get a beautiful, thin coating.
For Amazing Clear Cast Plus, we're looking at art coatings,
photo encapsulations.
Something where you want that project to last as long as
possible because it has maybe sentimental value,
memories to it.
Or it's gonna be outside a lot or like a tumbler ware
that you're taking around here.
That's great if you need that extra UV Heat Resistance.
For amazing quick coat this is where we're sealing wood.
For me, I use this to seal up a board before I pour a deep
pour epoxy on it.
That means that I'm not gonna have any air bubble issues
or moisture issues.
And since it's only gonna take four to six hours,
(snaps fingers)
I can keep my project moving.
For Amazing Deep Pour, well, I hope it's obvious by now,
but river tables, large castings, things where you're really
pouring thick and you need that extra time
for the air to release, and you need the extra time
to make sure it doesn't exotherm and turn yellow and gross.
So there it is.
Now you know the four different types of epoxy,
when to use each one and kind of what are the features
and benefits of each.
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