Woodturning – Hours Of Sanding to Make It Look Like Glass

Welcome back to my channel and yes this will be a voiceover episode but if you are not fancy to listen to my charming voice you can either mute the video or just press F2 and this will switch to my calming voice where I will sound like a relaxing voice but then you may fall asleep. All right all right all jokes aside I'm back with another Malay ball piece and I'm about to turn this into a very cool looking little vase. As always I'm using my 30 minutes epoxy resin with some metallic pigments and I gently blow on the top so I can evenly spread the powder onto the surface but you want to be careful you don't want to spit on your resin because moisture and resin doesn't go particularly well. Here I'm using a little bit of waste block this will help me to save some resin. I really wanted to give some special effect as I mentioned so many times in previous videos I don't like to use a clear resin so I just wanted to give a little bit of an extra texture and introduce some swirls into the clear resin and here I'm using a variety of different colors and with the help of a wooden stick try to introduce those colors and after a few days it's out of the pressure pot and ready to pop out. Look at that and while we are waiting for this five minutes epoxy resin to fully cure so we can pop this on the light and turn it into a vase let me introduce you this week's sponsor the incredible Skillshare. 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