What Resin Do You Use For Wood Turning

The Envirotex Lite is an epoxy whereas the Clear polyester casting resin is a polyester.

What resin do you use for wood turning. Before long I started to buy resin pen blanks because of the amazing variety of colors that are available. These are a form of clear plastic or more specifically thermoplastic. I have used epoxy in boat building and wondered if the epoxy I used would be suitable for such work.

As we mentioned previously polyester is thermoset. Making pens is a popular woodworking hobby. This video is about how to make pen blanks for beginners.

To mix the ingredients use a toothpick or a wooden stick and move it in a figure 8 motion. Beautiful pieces are turned from such efforts but this involves a whole new skill set. The most common compounds that are used to make acrylic are polymethyl methacrylate PMMA and polymethyl 2-methyl propenoate.

A mold is formed and a piece of wood is placed in the mold and then covered up by epoxy resin which is sometimes colored or clear. Mix the epoxy resin. It has a tendency to be more brittle than epoxy but this depends heavily on the agents the resin is combined with.

Woodturning is the technique of turning and shaping a piece of wood due to the rotational movement of the lathe machine. The basic principle of wood stabilizing is to take a piece of soft or plunky wood and inject it with acrylic resin to create a stable hardened wood blank that is safe to turn. Ive also seen examples of the use of coloured resin to fill voids.

You definitely wont want to use the polyester resin as the surface that is exposed to air can remain tacky after curing. Making products such as canes pipes honey dippers flutes chess pieces and kitchen utensils all kinds of bowls spindles lidded boxes sofa stands and other projects are the subjects of woodturning art. A few exaples are shown above It all started in northern California when I was taking a woodworking course at the David Marks school.