How to Smooth out Epoxy

Smoothing epoxy can be a pain if you can not wet sand it.

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[romulus]

I never knew bill burr was a handyman😂

[egbluesuede]

OMG I just experienced this last night! Gunked my sandpaper up quick. Great tip. I have a WBW scraper ready to go!

[Kevin-jbpv]

That last sentence would make Scott Prop and Roll groan. I was honestly caught off guard when you didn't look off to the side with a stony expression.

[noodles_GA]

Cabinet scraper and thumb plane (violin plane) are 2 tools I always recommend people get for all sorts of wood work. Magical little tools

[uriel]

That pun in the end just earned you a subscriber.
Thanks for the tips, good stuff

[bradacker]

No poop!! Had to retype that.
I've been fighting that for a long while.
Much appreciated

[schuylerashton]

Makes me think about the waxes we would use when stroke sanding stainless steel and aluminum, different waxes for each but they helped keep the metal cool and the belt clean longer. Might be worth testing if I ever get to playing with epoxy.

[rich]

the epoxy won't gum up your paper if you let it cure for a couple of days and move the sander around more.
You need to give the epoxy more time to harden so it's not as soft and moving the sander more will prevent heating up the dust which causes gumming.

[geef]

I can’t believe I never thought about this. I love my card scrapers.

[steh]

Very inspiring. Usually you only see epoxy pours in huge live edge tables.. which would be too big for my first epoxy project. This looks like a nice small epoxy project to start off with.. and now i know how to get it smooth 😁 cheers 👍

[satibel]

Even for cleaning wood scraping works way better than planing imo, I've been cleaning some pine, and it has a tendency to split and gunk up the sandpaper, so I've been scraping with the side of a chisel and it went really well.

[johnframe]

I just added both a #112, and a #12 to my inventory. Never thought of scraping epoxy, but I bet one of the scraper planes would work.

[montelott]

You have given me the impetus to incorporate epoxy in my woodworking.

[tuckerc]

oh yeah card scrapers are my favorite I use the hell out of mine especially if you're removing any kind of finish I don't like to use stripper you have to in tight areas of course but I can have a whole table stripped within an hour with a card scraper and they're safe especially on veneer I've had many customers bring me tables they want refinished and it's just plywood or a veneer on MDF and you can't go to town and use heavy tools cuz the veneer is only a 16th inch thick card scraper for the win

[lifeisdeath]

Bro thank you. I literally stopped trying epoxy projects cause I would have to spend hours making sure I poured the exact amount with no ocerapill

[andrebartels]

That scraper is such an underestimated tool. You get the best surface finishes on wood with it, because it doesn't cut into your material like sand paper. Instead it scrapes protrusions off your piece and it cuts much like a plane.

[traillesstravelled]

I like to catch it as it's setting up.
But if set hard, old school paint scrapper works also.

[jaredking]

Good old box cutter blades and razor blades for me when I use it at do stone. But at the same rate I can water polish it to mirror

[marnixkamminga]

Triangle scrapers are also great when their sharp

[bingo]

👂🩸gotta love that good ol' epoxy scraping sound.