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My First Epoxy Bowl

If you’re a bowl turner but haven’t tried turning an epoxy bowl yet, you’re missing out! Mixing media like wood and epoxy leads to beautiful results. Here’s what I learned from my first epoxy bowl. Have you tried turning an epoxy bowl yet? Combining wood and epoxy can give you incredible results, and it can…

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WWGOA GOLD: Creating Epoxy Accents

Add an artistic touch to your next cutting board or charcuterie board by adding an epoxy accent. We’ll look at the best type of epoxy to use for this, adding mica powder and pigment for color, and how to create the accent on your board.

Filling Knots with Epoxy

Some of the most amazing pieces of wood are the ones that have “defects.” Defects could be spalting (mold), small checks, bark inclusions or, in this case, a huge hole. Sure, we could cut around those things and eliminate them, but I’m a huge fan of including this character in the final piece. I think…

Using Epoxy for Wood Cracks

Working with wood as a medium is mostly a wonderful experience, but invariably you have to deal with some imperfections in the wood such as knots, cracks, dings, etc. Learning how to repair wood cracks and other imperfections can involve a bit of trial and error, and ultimately it is good to land on a…

Working with Wood Bundle

Description Bundle: Working with Wood As woodworkers, we use a variety of materials for each project we do, and it’s important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. Just like not all trees are the same, the material we get from the trees differs as well. This special bundle will give you the variety…

How to Dispense Pinpoint Epoxy

There is a large and growing popularity around working with slab wood and making big, bold table tops with this material. That means dealing with imperfections that you will invariably find in the slabs. Epoxy is a great material for filling voids because it provides an attractive surface that can be sanded flush with the…

Turning Epoxy Bowls

Epoxy gives you the opportunity to make BEAUTIFUL bowls on the lathe.  There are a few tricks involved in turning them including chisel selection, sanding and finishing.  Chisel selection is critical to make sure you don’t get catches as you’re turning. You’re going to love epoxy bowls.

Embedding Objects in Your Epoxy Pours

Epoxy can be fun to work with once you get the hang of it, and it can be used to add beautiful features to your projects. Make your epoxy pours and projects even more unique by embedding objects in the epoxy to give the appearance of floating down your river table. Pouring in Layers To…

Epoxy Camper Upgrade

You’re probably here at WWGOA because you’re an avid woodworker. But if you enjoy woodworking, there’s a good chance you’re hands-on in other areas, too. When he’s not in his shop, George has been busy doing a full upgrade on a 1997 20’ bumper pull camper. There’s an entire video series on this project. The…

WWGOA GOLD LIVE: Understanding Epoxy

There are many different epoxy products in the marketplace. It’s very important to understand how to choose the correct epoxy for the work you’re doing. Table top epoxy is very different from deep pour epoxy. Picking the wrong product can ruin your project, and be a very expensive mistake. In this WWGOA GOLD LIVE event,…