I Tested Viral Epoxy Rocks Table

I love that the point of the rocks is to use the waste products, and then they make waste specifically for the table, and then the whole table becomes waste

Great video. I love when the mistakes are shown. It's unfortunate you couldn't track down exactly what happened.

If you did the silver and blue "rocks" only you could do a frozen river with chunks of ice floating throughout.i think that's be a pretty cool table

Sorry about the bad pour. I had this kind of thing happen once, smaller amounts though. In the post-mortem, I realized that I had used more resin, instead of hardener, when I mixed it. 1:1 resin, guess I grabbed the wrong bottle. 🤷

Great now I cant stop thinking about doing this rock technique and carving something out of it. Fantastic idea.

I feel like you need to call Evan and Katelyn for any and all resin questions. 😂

To help prevent air bubbles I've put resin along the live edge, let it get to the gummy stage then done the main pour, seems to help keep any air bubbles coming through from the wood.

My two cents: besides your two ideas (expired resin and/or a bad ratio), the uneven cure could have been the degassing. I only work with 3 minute resin, so it may not directly compare, but if I try to degas, it foams and cures in about 15 seconds. The inside of the pot gets fairly warm, and that might have kickstarted your cure too soon. The finished table looks great though!

Wow table turned out great. Resin can be used years after expiration date, you’ll see yellowing to part A, this can be rectified by adding small amounts of blue if you need a clear pour, or add any color to mask the yellowing. I have a bottle of resin that I purchased in 2017 used it last week, colored it dark blue arguably my piece was smaller, the pour turned out fine. Resin that doesn’t set is 98% operator error ❤

Thoughts on tumbling the resin rocks so they are smooth? Might be a cool evolution.

I BTW really like the result, the soft pastel colors and the fact they are semi-transparent. This is so far my most favorite river effect that I saw. Others look great too, but this one is just amazing. Does it lose structural integrity because it didn't harden at the same time?

I appreciate you leaving the mistakes in. We all make them, even experienced fabricators, but not all of us share our fails. A mistake is a learning experience, share it.

Evan and Katelyn need to help this guy

I've got a crazy idea inspired by this video. Do a small end table to see how it turns out. Try smaller/non transparent pieces of epoxy and see if u can mimic a geo rock. As far as crushed epoxy. Maybe a rock crusher or something then screen out 1/2" 1/4" and 1/8th in and use what best fits the project.

I like this channel because it is transparent and realistic, and shows the failures and struggles of creating. Also, takes both with a positive attitude.

Another great video showing the good, the bad, and the ugly about builds! Thank you for sharing!

Solid colors on the "rocks"...I was thinking the same thing the whole way through. In fact, when you pulled out the gold I figured you were going to with black and then drizzle the gold and maybe some white over it to make it look like marble.

I've been thinking of something similar, but using lumps of coloured glass, looks great. Cheers

Industrial paint inspector here. Whenever we have issues of uncured coating (e.g., epoxy), 9 times out 10, it's due to "applicator error," which is a polite way of saying whoever mixed it probably screwed up the ratio. I also noticed you said during the pour that it looked like the epoxy was starting to set in some areas, so another course for the uncured base layer could be that the top layer of the pour has cured or skinned over faster than the bottom layer, preventing the deeper epoxy from completing its full cure as it's trapped/"suffocated" by the top layer.

It's not from degassing too long. I worked as an engineer at a wind turbine manufacturing facility and we could leave resin in a degassing tank for 24 hours, conservatively. I feel your pain tho. 😢