- All right.
So last time we sealed up our wood and now we're ready to
actually get pouring.
So let's real quick,
Talk about pouring a river table or a cutting board like
this, using amazing deep pour and kind of how we go about
that process.
So amazing deep pour is a two to one product.
That means we're going to use two parts of the A side to
every one part of the B side.
That's the intention.
We need to make that much, much thinner, much,
much easier to use for you,
especially in larger volumes like this.
So speaking of large volumes,
we have a pretty big gap here that we're feeling with resin.
So we need to calculate how much we're actually going to use
on this. Now we could pour all the way up this entire thing,
but then we're dealing with a lot of material and a lot of
exothermic. We don't really want to deal with that.
So what we're going to do,
is do about an inches worth of this one and three quarter
inch board. So I'm going to fill this up an inch.
Our dimensions here are about seven,
about seven and a quarter by 20 and a half by an inch thick.
So I plugged that into our volume calculator.
You can come up with about 82 ounces worth of resin that
we'll actually need.
So what I'm going to do is grab one of these buckets and
then find a good mark
that is two to one that we can work up to. Let me explain.
So we know we're looking for about 82 ounces of resin,
and then there's an 80 mark right here.
Now we can do some math and kind of get a third of 80 and
put more marks on here, but it's really not necessary.
Instead.
We've got this three quart mark right up here and a 96
mark, since we're looking for about 82 ounces, well,
we can jump up to this 96.
That gives us three quarts which means
we can do one quart of the
B side, and then two quarts of the A side and have a nice,
perfect mixture, with an amount that's going to work for a
single pour.
All right, I've got my amounts measured out appropriately.
I'm just going to go ahead and mix this thoroughly,
according to our mixing instructions.
If you haven't watched that video,
you should check that out, it'll really help you
with the process.
All right. Our amazing deep pour is all mixed up,
but why do I have two buckets here? Well,
that's because we're doing two colors.
So I'm going to show you how to put two colors into one pour
at the same time.
So what we're going to do, is split this three quarts that
I've got here into a quart and a half in each bucket,
everything's dulled out. We're going to add some colors.
Now, having done this a few times,
I know that about a scoop and a half in this amount,
or even just one scoop is going to give me the exact mix I
want. That's no opacity.
You can't see through the rivers,
the two sides that we're going to pour. So scoop and a half
will do the trick. I'm going to use white and black.
It's a cool color combination.
I'm a big fan of white and black,
but also that'll give us an opportunity to kind of swirl in
a cool gray in the middle,
and I'll show you how to do that too.
All right. So I'm going to be real quick,
I've got my colors mix.
I'm going to just wipe out this mold.
If you have some compressed air,
go ahead and shoot some of that in there and get all the
dust and debris from your space.
Now, since we're doing two pours, two layers of this, right,
we're actually going to wait to do our top layer until about
16 hours after this poor.
So it's still within that gel time.
Those two layers are going to fuse together perfectly,
and we'll do our final kind of finishing color effects on
that second pour.
So this is really about getting a good base in there,
torching it out and making sure all the air is gone and
combining them in the middle. So let's do that now.
Now when you're having two colors meet in the middle,
the key is to pour at the same time and pour from different
buckets at different moments.
And you'll see how that middle section kind of goes back and
forth. So just take your time and ease your way up to it.
I'll stop there. Grab the torch,
torch out this layer and then pour a little bit more.
My bucket's out.
Now it looks like we might have a little clump of unmixed
pattern. Don't panic.
That's okay.
We're going to grab a tongue depressor and we're going to
have to scoop that out before we mix together the middle.
And like I said,
we're not going to worry so much about the mixture of these
two, because this is the bottom land,
but I am going to focus on swirling this middle section to
get a cool blend.
Now take your time with this.
The long open time means that these two colors,
especially where we're mixing them are going to kind of
naturally combine a little bit. That's okay.
That's the look we're going for in this situation.
If you wanted to maintain these types of swirls,
what you do, you should wait a little bit longer,
more the eight or nine hour mark,
actually with an amazing deep pour like this,
and then start to do your swirls.
The open time is pretty
much gone at that point and that gel times kicking in.
So all of those swirls that you're putting into the material
are going to hold.
All right.
So I've mixed these enough to where I feel comfortable with
that fun little gray I have in the middle. Again,
this is the bottom of the cutting board.
So I'm not going to panic about it,
but we're going to wait about 16 hours until it's through
that open time, all the way into the gel time,
then we're going to pour on our second layer.
All right. It is the next day.
We've waited 16 hours and that's the perfect amount of time
so that our first pour is actually kind of tacky and gummy.
And we're ready for our second pour,
keeping it tacky and gummy. Well,
let me give you a visual of what that looks like,
and if I just poke it with a stick,
you can see it actually kind of has a taffy consistency.
That's what we want.
That means this next pour we're going to do is going to
chemically bond to the one below it.
And we're going to have a solid cutting board.
I real quick put a beat of hot glue down.
That just means there's not going to be a bunch of spill
over on top of the wood that I have to deal with later.
So this is optional.
You can also use other things like silicone or something
else, but hot glue works just fine.
All right. So we're prepped and ready to go.
We're just gonna put on our PPE mix up the same amount as we
did last time. Split those pours in half.
Go from there.
Now because we're pouring this big mass into another,
just jelled mass that we've already poured.
You're actually going to see what looks like these two
blocks show up. Don't panic.
We're going to fix those in a minute, but that's okay.
That's a part of the pouring process.
All right, we've poured our second batch.
That's great. I like the color mixture I have right now,
but let's say I wanted to adjust it,
or I wanted to give a very defined type of pattern. Well,
what we're going to do is we're going to wait until almost
the end of the open time before we come back with a stick
and add some cool effects.
We do that because once we add those cool effects,
we don't want them to disappear. And if we just poured this,
it's still very viscous.
So it's not going to hold those effects.
So waiting until the end of the open time,
right when it's starting to gel,
lets us put in cool effects and then lock them in.
So this cutting board is done.
And now we just have a lot of waiting to do, five to seven
days is the full cure that we want to wait for this.
We're waiting the five to seven days because we're
going to be doing cutting and sanding and a bunch of other
stuff to finish this board nicely.
And that means we have to let it fully adhere.
So next time, next video.
We're going to show you that process as well,
until next time.