FLOATING Epoxy Stool | 46 

I am also Zack, and I also drive a Toyota. 👍

One version would be to have one solid wooden leg and two solid resin legs to make it look like it's balancing on the one leg

The bubbles by the wood are from the wood and not the epoxy. Next time you should try sealing the endgrain with 5min epoxy and you will get a much better finish. Overall very nice though!!

Ps in order to make epoxy clear, just paint on another thin layer of epoxy after you use the acetone and it will be perfectly clear

I'm gonna try this, but making a cane for my mother. Instead, I'll just get a dowel and break it and then stuff the broken ends into a piece of PVC pipe and fill the pipe with resin through a hole in the side. Much simpler, but probably won't be as nice. But I don't have as many tools, or as much money for expoxy... so I'm gonna have to get creative. Great video, nice inspiration, and you set a great example by not giving up and keeping a good attitude through failures! I'll definitely check out some of your other videos after this one!

Now that is art you can sit on.👍

this guy is next crafted workshop

Thank you for showing your process, mistakes and all! So many of these workshop videos are edited to be totally perfect, start to finish - kinda discouraging for a beginner. Thank you for sharing your process with us. It's clear you love what you do, and the final product is beautiful!

Love the contrast of paduck and walnut. Thanks for the video

Just tried my first epoxy project and loved it! Not perfect but going to be trying more ideas in the future

Turned out nice! I haven't used epoxy in any projects but love the look of wood and epoxy.

these wood and epoxy/resin videos are so soothing

Loved the stool! If you want to get clearer resin they use a pressure pot and put your batch of resin in there before you pour, this will drastically decrease the fog.

i know this mans gunna blow up, this shit straight satisfying to watch

What an amazing idea! It would look great with the transparency in the botton too

Pretty cool.

Omg I looove these type of videos

It looks amazing!

I love stuff like this I wanna make something now😍💯

Nice project, important expose all the troubles and how you fixed them👍🏼

So many hurdles to overcome. Good job

6:09 talk about a smooth transition

I stumbled across you, and I was blown away by the beauty of the chair. That is such a beautiful piece of art, you could probably sell it for thousand dollar. I love the design on it. ❤️

So cool! 4:42 👌👌

Thank you, thank you, thank you I want legs similar to this for a dining room table and was hoping it could be done so it can match table top. It turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!

You're creative! As for the small air bubbles you've got left in the epoxy, I think I saw others use a hot air blower to get rid of those, during the pouring process.

A good tip of advice when cutting off the dowel plug so its flush you can use a hammer and chisel to pop it of easy

Excellent craftsmanship. Keep up the great work.

Loved it

Beautiful work !!

Well damn, that was a rollercoaster...but it looks great.

Great job!

That looks awesome!

Walnut is a tight fiberous wood. Near indestructable. One of my favorites to work with.

That idea is awsome! Looks really cool! Well done man! Nice project

First video I’ve seen from you and I love it! I don’t know a lot of the terms you said but I love your passion for the craft! Excited to watch more! :))

Workshop Edits Amazing idea !!! I like this video

Nice!

This is awesome!

Now this is a really clever idea!

Beautiful piece. Came out great

Very cool looking stool. I wouldnt have thought about the padauk with the walnut but it really stands out and looks great. Ive made gear shift knobs layering lighter colored wood with padauk but never mixed it with walnut. Thanks for the idea

V funky stool!! Lovely

This video should be titled “The Dumbest Way To Make A Stool”. Fantastic end product, though. Beautiful piece of furniture.

love the padauk! I try to put it in my guitar builds whenever I can

I hope this doesn't come across as a criticism, but there's a certain roughness to your projects as well as your videos that I really appreciate. A lot of the projects you see on youtube come out pristine and you never see any errors along the process of creating them. this video felt like something I would do when approaching something, with the same kinds of mistakes having to be accounted for along the way, and it was refreshing to see that something so beautiful still came out of things not being exactly perfect as you wanted.

love your work...

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen!!!!

As much as you stumbled through this, it did not affect your great stool. I love it. The floating legs are really cool I have one question though, does it sit level? The way you cut the tips off of the legs imparted different anhles on them, but maybe not enough to be noticed. Is it level ebough to not be a bother?

gorgeous beautiful first class job 💯❤️❤️❤️🇰🇼

Awesome idea!

Some vibration can remove microbubbles in the fluid before it hardens.

super cool

Impressive! Keep the videos coming!

Awesome idea, and it looks great

normally just using a thin coat of more epoxy does the trick of looking clear, looks great dude

Nice looking stool Zach! Thanks for sharing the video.👌😎👍JP

Perfect...

Beautiful piece! 👍👍

Great idea, like how it turned out even if it doesn’t hold up under weight. Use the concept again on another fun idea!

Am From Pakistan . Am Ur biggest fan..Superb keep it up bro ..

Looks dope 🙌☺👍

Very nice 👏👏

Nice work zach.

Well done mate, fantastic concept

you look and sound wholesome and i really enjoy your videos. :)

Awesome from indonesia

Cool dude

Great work that’s a really great idea

Workshop Edits thank you ,Great for wood design ,great is beauty a peace criative, of your hands,sucess

I love how you ran over it with your truck 😫 and recorded it 😂 Determination = Amazing content! Awesome work man

Cool job man👍🏽💪🏽

Cracks and cloudiness can be minimized with shallower, layered pours of epoxy resin. The shallow pours with a partial cure in between each allows any trapped gas to escape, as well as allows some of the heat caused in the curing process to escape. While each layer is still soft and relatively thin, and also allows each consecutive layer to fill in any weak areas formed due to expansion and contraction of the resin. Also, to get crystal clear epoxy, degassing under vacuum is best practice. If you intend to incorporate epoxy resin into future projects a ~$100 vacuum pump and a small vacuum chamber (big enough for a half filled container of epoxy) is worth the investment. You won't realize how much gas and air is in your epoxy until you see it boil out under vacuum. All of this gas will end up trapped in tiny, microscopic bubbles inside the curing epoxy that can both cause cracks as well as diffuse light (reducing clarity and strength). Without the vacuum, you can still pour very clear epoxy, but each layer must be poured SUPER thin, almost like a thin film. Wait 30 mins (or whatever is recommended for the epoxy resin by the manufacturer), quickly blast the surface with a torch to pop the bubbles, and then add your next layer at the recommended interval, rinse and repeat. The key to strong, crystal clear epoxy resin is time and patience. The vacuum chamber will reduce time and increase layer thickness, but laying the epoxy resin is almost always going to improve pour quality and minimize risk of fissures, cracks, bubbles, and diffusion.

Good job! 😊

Very cool project and video BTW you did a smart thing with. Ot using the Incorrectly mixed Epoxy i will never work correctly when its messed up the pocket screws on the melamine mold parts were a. Smart idea as well the overall results on the legs are prett cool if anyone ever notices the “broken” legs b in your shop i would mess with them by telling them it was a stool that you bought from the Harry. Houdini Estate. And was something he used On stage LOL i like doing things like that just to see someone’s reactions Amazing how tough Walnut can be my first thought was anchoring it and pulling it with a Come along tool or a 4WD vehicle

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Great man!! Very cool!!!!!!!

Wow it's really amazing work 👌👌👌

hey looks nice man, I worked with epoxy often and try an epoxy from chill epoxy it a simple 2 to 1 ratio super clear and you don't have to worry as much for the heat!

You should have brushed another layer of the resin over what you had to make it more clear.

very cool idea and great video

I liked it 🤩😍

Great video dude

Perfect gift for my worst enemy :)

Molto bravo un saluto dall Italia 🇮🇹

I think this is awesome!! Another channel that can teach you is Modustrial Maker! He explains things well and has really cool builds!

This is fantastic! I've got to be safety police tho: Uncured epoxy is pretty toxic and will do some serious damage to your lungs if you're cutting it on the table saw or sanding without a mask.

Workshops, fancy word for garage 🤣

Nice one...

Seriously beautiful. Sadly I was able to point out the broken leg every time, even in the show off. But hey, it adds character in my opinion. You live and learn, and it's not bad looking at all.

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Lol you glued the legs on!!!!!!

Awesome look, my only concern is the strength of the legs with the different materials. There's really no strong physical connection between the resin and the wood, plus the wood might expand and contract against the resin making it get weak over time. My fear is that the legs could break fairly easily with a jolt or drop. Besides that worry it looks amazing and would be a cool technique for other pieces that don't have to take the weight of someone sitting on it.

next time, you should make only 1 leg with wood, the other ones complete with epoxy, that would looks like the chair stands only on 1 leg. :) or the legs complete with epoxy and put an led inside the leg. i helped a friend of mine to do this, because i have a company and work for over 25 years with epoxy. there are so many possible things you can do with it. it's only important, to use the right epoxy, because not every epoxy is the same, but i'm pretty sure you know this. :)

Just so you know aim the blue logo on the mic at your mouth to get the best audio quality.

Really cool video. Love the quality of the voice over

If you ever need to break it again make longer pieces or extend them sliding them into a long pipe, the premise is: Think about a broom, slide it between two pieces of a tree trunk that started to grow apart in a V, and lever it so you can break it slowly so the fibers have time to "demesh" more individually, it's not about strength but slowly breaking it apart.

Love the idea of a floating stool, very nice.

Is no one going to talk about the “to make it more cushy on my butt” ?

Keep up the good work bro 👍🏼