Woodcutters/Finish - Instant Cure Finish

Here is a finishing product you should know about, Wood 716. I got this from mywoodcutters.com. This has a lot of cool stuff going for it. If you're in an environment like me, where your shop space and your finishing space is the same space, you're gonna love this, the reason being it UV cures in two minutes. So let's get it applied to this cherry waterfall, and we'll talk some more about it.

So obviously, I can hand apply this, and of course, when we can wipe on a finish, that certainly makes it easy. There are other forms of this finish that can be sprayed. This particular one needs to be applied by hand. If we address an elephant in the room right away, this finish is not inexpensive, but it's 100% solids. So what that means is that the coverage out of this is pretty incredible.

That quart bottle that I just opened will cover 400 square feet. So what that means in reality is I could do two coats on this table 50 times. I could make 50 of these tables with two coats before that bottle is empty. So when you're looking at that part of the evaluation, be sure that you're cognizant of the fact that this finish goes really, really far. And as far as doing this in your environment, mywoodcutters.com, they've got a boatload of instructional videos on this stuff, and you can watch there for way more information than I'm giving you about how to apply it, best case scenarios, what else you need to do in order to work with this.

But we're at a point where we get this hand spread, like I just did, then gonna let this sit for about two minutes, and that just, that's part of what we're doing, is making sure that any bubbles that might come out of the wood do come out of the wood. Then we'll come back and look at the next step. One of the things that's cool about this is these applicators, you don't have to throw them out. Remember, we're gonna UV cure. So if I put the applicator in a Ziploc bag and I put it in a dark spot, it's gonna stay in this condition forever, as long as it doesn't see UV light.

So whatever you're using for an applicator, you can just hold onto it and use it again. Now, once you're hunky and dory, once you're happy with how that looks, I'm gonna go one more time, then we're ready for the science step. I like it. The science step is it cures with UV light. So we could simply set this in a source of UV light, which would be the sun, or we can use a commercial UV light, and this gets two minutes of cure time, and then you'll see that magic.

Two minute timer left. In real time, two minutes. It's pretty incredible. So again, think about what's going on here. If my environment, you know, if there's stuff filtering out of the air into a different form of finish that takes 40 minutes to start to dry, we don't have that here because in that two minutes cure with the UV, we're done.

At this stage of the game, that's first coat. If you wanted to, if you needed to, you could scuff sand this, do another coat to build that finish up. I've got another one of these that's already a couple steps further along, so I'm gonna grab that and we're gonna do another science experiment, which is gonna be an example of durability. Let's have the worst dinner party ever. That's ketchup.

That's mustard. Little red wine. Coffee. Vodka. Water.

We're gonna give this a 10 minute sit, and then we're gonna come back and have a look. Well, our dinner guests sure made a mess, and it didn't help that the dining room table was slightly downhill. But let's take their spills off. A little bit of water. So checking out that finish, highly acidic stuff sitting on that table for 10 minutes, and it looks great.

So mywoodcutters.com is your source for this stuff. Great how to videos there. Really interesting finishing product with that ability to, in two minutes, have a finish that you can touch. You don't have to worry about stuff coming into, out of the air, into the finish. And the other benefits of its durability, its ability to withstand all this stuff that I put on it, definitely worth looking at for your finishing needs on the projects that you're doing.