Table Top Epoxy Resin Kit 1-Gal (0.5 Gal Resin and 0.5 Gal Hardener Set)–Clear Coat for Table Top Art with Mixing Cups, Stir Sticks, Brushes, and Gloves, Hand Mix DIY Casting Supplies

READ INSTRUCTIONS… like at least 3 times. This product has a website with instructional videos- I would highly recommend finding those. They gave me directions I wasn’t expecting right at the last minute and they really saved me. The pictures show the plywood desk I built and coated with colored epoxy (this is a clear product you can color).This product is great! But this is NOT for someone who has never done any kind of project before and thinks they can just throw it together and BOOM magic table. For ease of use- this is not an easy task, but I don’t believe any epoxy is ‘easy’. It takes a lot of time and effort to get it right and make sure it is in the right environment to cure correctly. I am not an experienced epoxy pourer but an avid carpenter and residential contractor and build a lot of furniture- the two pours alone took me about 8 hoursFor the basics- yes, it’s a 1:1 ratio so hard to mess that up. If you are just wanting a clear coat on something simple and don’t care about edges… this is actually fairly simple.My complications came from making two separate pieces at the same time (for a desk) and also wanting to color my epoxy.I did this simply with acrylic paint, but where it really got hairy was in trying to divide proportions between my two colors and the two tops- so I had 4 different mixes I needed to account for, plus the seal coat, plus just a little extra for error. TOUGH. Just make sure you enlist all your greatest mathematicians and chemists to help you out with this.. my team of 3 (architect, accountant, and surgeon) took hours to come up with our final numbers… haha so good luck!If anyone is curious, I used a 1:10 ratio of paint to final mix and it worked amazingly. There is a very slight amount of transparency where the warmth of the plywood can be seen through my white epoxy, and I think if you wanted it more opaque a slightly higher ratio of paint would still be acceptable, just keep in mind if you make it too thick it will be very difficult to pour.The other pain point- the edges. If you want your table/desk to look the same on the edges as you do the top… good luck. I would say that if I tried this again, I would allow less time between my seal coat and my pour coat so that the edges were still very tacky, allowing the pour to bond better on the edge. I spent HOURS between my two pieces painting that crap on the edges over and over and over and over again. Overall- I am happy with the result and learned to love that I could see the ‘stripes’ from the layers of plywood and actually think it looks awesome- but definitely not what I intended. I would also recommend that if you don’t want any transparency, paint would have solved this issue. Had I just put a white base coat down before the epoxy (thought about it, decided not to) it would not have mattered as much how clear the pour was bc you would have just seen the white below. I might try paint next time.Cure time: this is so important. The temperature of your space needs to be WARM. I hooked up my spot with a space heater and heated the room to 75-80 degrees for 3 whole days. That’s a long time to sanction a space (in my case the dining room/home office at my parents place) filled with fumes and heat. Yikes. But it was winter and my garage/workshop was impossible to get to that temperature.I would definitely use this product for future projects but this is by no means simple!Anyway- hope all of that helps!