$5k worth of sandpaper later and 500 hours of my life I have a $5 coaster to show off to friends. I think I'd rather leave it as it is when first done with no sanding and it's still shiny.
Prepare your work area, put your favorite music, a good chair and just enjoy your work. If you have a small electric sander(like an orbital sander or a vibrator sander) you can speed up the process considerably. Once you have the first one polished the new molding will be polished too. Good luck and have fun!
Finally how to video where I don't have to listen to someone telling me their life story before they get on with showing me what I am watching the video to see in the first place.
This video is the most basic polishing video. If you have a power tool, you can speed up the polishing process. If your resin works have small scratches, you can even start from 2000 😊
I know I'm very late, but if you try to sand something rough with fine grit sandpaper, the sandpaper will clog really quickly, so you'd essentially be wasting it.
@@BuzzingFish So is it even necessary to start with a coarser sandpaper? I would think just starting with something finer would make more sense. Or am I missing something?
@@carms.creative Resin often doesnt set with a perfectly flat top surface. Starting out rough on flat surface will help flatten the resin surface and make for a good mirror finish.
0.5 micron diamond lapping paste you can get it equal to 10,000 upto 100,000 I go upto 60,000 on opals which is unseable to the eye each thing you work with can require a different product ect
Thanks for sharing. I’m curious what it looked like before? Is this method used if something is dull and scratched? Can certain sanding grits be skipped to polish quicker? Thank you.
I love your work, it's always creative and well finished... But I have to tell you, you have very beautiful hands! I always end up thinking that they are as beautiful as your art ;-) A compliment all the way from Belgium
This must be the only video i have ever seen where someone explains how to do this properly unlike other people who have never showed me properly how to get a good shine like this and I use epoxy resin all the time and have tried so many times to get it right over and over again and still i can't get it to come back again like this super shine and just stays dull and scratched looking and cannot see through it
@@annaroshin1459 Thank you a lot, to be good at work, patience is the first priority. I think you also have patience, you can make it better than me. 😊
This is the process, for sure.... but it doesn't have to be so exact and time consuming, every time, unless you messed up when you're working with epoxy. You don't always have to go grit by grit, from a 400 to a 10,000. Work your way there but always finish with a 10k and a polish. I generally start at 1000 grit. Go to 3000, then 5000, then 10000, then finish with a polish. But the key is to not have mistakes before starting. If you get a bug or a hair or a bubble because you didn't use your heat gun... start at 150.
First off, this is beautiful and like everyone else said you did a great job sharing the whole process 👏. But now I have question, once I use polish in the end won't it cause the coaster to be to slick to hold a drink?
@@josephjohn7209 IDK...I’ve gone to 1200 (bored as hell with the clogged resin sandpaper) and then polished with the stuff I always used for gold and silver...but it’s STILL not right! Will go back, yet AGAIN and see what’s up! I didn’t want to go higher on the grit, but.... AND, still have to find out why my castings look watery on the inside. They are perfectly cured, just not crystal clear!
This is beautiful! Can I possibly ask a question? If I have a resin pendant that has started going matte (it has a sterling silver backing) should I use sandpaper to get rid of any inconsistencies before painting with a gloss? I'm not experienced and don't want to ruin the pendant further. Thanks!
You can jump strait to a finer grit paper if you dont care about making your piece strait before you polish it. The shine Imight not last as long though if jump right to a super fine grit
Good video. This also can be done with a small sanding machine, like an orbital to speed up the process, that being said, sometimes when things are done by hands they give you another level of satisfaction. A humble suggestion: Please try to get the camera no so close to the work. If you want to do a close up make it really slow so the viewer dont get dizzy and can appreciate the detail or read the words on the items. Please keep making these videos, excellent job. Thanks.
You can just slow down the video speed in the settings, i would be annoyed if they were doing this from further away because it would be harder to see what the process is
Can you use this same concept for epoxied tumblers? I put a final layer of epoxy on a tumbler and there are a few spots where tiny dust particles landed on it. Could I use a high grit sanding pad with that paste and buff it out without having to do another layer of epoxy over it? What all would you recommend? Thanks!
Hello:) I’m just getting into resin I actually haven’t even made my first thing yet.. so I was just wondering what sanding it down does & why I would need to do so. Also is that water u keep pouring on?
If the scratches are not very serious, you can use sandpaper with 5000-10000 grit to polish it. If you don't need overall sanding, you can also use tape to cover areas that don't need to be sanded. 😊
I wonder what happens if you skip some grits, like do every other grit, so instead of having to sandpaper 10 times you can do it 5 times and it still ends up polished 🧐 😬
What were the colourful things inside of the resin? They looked super cute. Also thanks for the detailed video, I loved how it shows the full process unlike other videos that just skip through steps.
Thank you for taking the time to explain in detail how to do this process. You are helping so many people. GREATLY APPRECIATED 👍❤
You are welcome, let's learn new knowledge together. 😊
never know that many nomber of sand papers exist😀
Lol for reals damn
Hahaha me to
Yea they do. The higher the grades, the finer it is.
😂😂😂 right
Right and all I wanna do is learn the basics of resin so I can start my shop 😭😔
This was a very useful breakdown of sanding. thank you. Especially the bit about sanding for 2 minutes.
Simple, straight forward, and to the point! Great video, thank you :) Final result looks great!
Wow the end result! You deserve a diamond ring for your patience and artwork 😍
Wow the amount of love and care to buff that piece to a beautiful shine. Thank you for sharing 😍
This is what time and effort spent looks like in the end..a truly wonderful piece that shines and doesnt dull. Well done
Thank you, I hope you can learn how to polish resin or other things. The basic steps are the same. 😊👍
What r they using as a liquid
@@salyhaa498 water
@@salyhaa498 It's just what. 😉
@@snoopylovez 👍
$5k worth of sandpaper later and 500 hours of my life I have a $5 coaster to show off to friends. I think I'd rather leave it as it is when first done with no sanding and it's still shiny.
I bought all the supplies but watching this video, I’m like what have I gotten myself into! Polishing will take half of my lifetime for one piece 😨😫
Preetha Jasmine polish only once and make a mold from the polished item and all the items you cast from it will be polished.
SNKRhead Games 🤩 wow
Prepare your work area, put your favorite music, a good chair and just enjoy your work. If you have a small electric sander(like an orbital sander or a vibrator sander) you can speed up the process considerably. Once you have the first one polished the new molding will be polished too. Good luck and have fun!
From where u got polisher?
What polish do I need to get?
After seeing the final piece: I love you 😍
Ty for this video. I didnt have all the sand paper needed. But had some, so I decided to try it anyways. And it was a huge difference
im just impressed with how quickly you can sand things, thats impressive
Haha i am a robot😎
Wow !! This turned out GORGEOUS !! It looks almost like 3D !! 😍🙋🏻♀️
Ummm.. it is 3D....
That's true. Thank you for your careful tutorial. I hope you will get better and better.
Thank you. 😊
Is that just water being squirted on there?
A great way for those who need to polish small surfaces without the need for machines!
Woodworking - Arts & Crafts, you are welcome, I'm glad you like my resin work, thank you. 😊
Thanks for the quick and well explained tutorial!
He did not EXPLAIN anything.
"i know what i have to do but i dont know if i have the strength to do it" is exactly ehat im thinking right now. welp, better get to work
Thanks . I really needed that. 😍
I am very happy to help you. 💕
*What a wonderful tutorial!*
Very nice and detailed video now i can sand my work to crystal clear
Finally how to video where I don't have to listen to someone telling me their life story before they get on with showing me what I am watching the video to see in the first place.
question. why do we have to go through all the sand paper say from 150 to 700. Why not straight use 700 and then polish it?
This video is the most basic polishing video. If you have a power tool, you can speed up the polishing process. If your resin works have small scratches, you can even start from 2000 😊
I know I'm very late, but if you try to sand something rough with fine grit sandpaper, the sandpaper will clog really quickly, so you'd essentially be wasting it.
@@BuzzingFish So is it even necessary to start with a coarser sandpaper? I would think just starting with something finer would make more sense. Or am I missing something?
@@carms.creative Resin often doesnt set with a perfectly flat top surface. Starting out rough on flat surface will help flatten the resin surface and make for a good mirror finish.
@@ElwinWay can i go up to 2000 grit then polish, will it looks good
Hi!! I’m from Brazil, this is amazing! Thanks for share ♥️ I gonna try with my resin craft
now this is top-notch work.
Hi! Can I ask what is the material you use with the Polish pasta? It is a simple rag? Thank you!
I use 60-10000 grit sandpaper, you can search in amazon "sandpaper 60-10000 grit" 😉
It's a cotton rag
0.5 micron diamond lapping paste you can get it equal to 10,000 upto 100,000 I go upto 60,000 on opals which is unseable to the eye each thing you work with can require a different product ect
I also use micro fiber cloth or leather or felt block depends on what you are polishing
Hi, I’m a beginner. Why my project book mark for an instance keep bending even if I follow 1:1 ratio? What might be my mistake?
thank you for this! i just messed up my epoxy resin so i needed to learn how to polish and fix it!
You are welcome. We learn together to improve ourselves 😊
I sanded it but i m not getting the shine back what to do
Wow... just magnificent.
Beautiful piece!
Thanks a lot debra pelisek 😊
amazing process....:* thanks for sharing.
You're welcome 🌹
とても綺麗です♪
ありがとうございました。 🧡
You’ve saved me! Thank you!!
Just beautiful. Did think I'd needed so many different sanding sheets.
this is an early tutorial, this is also the dumbest way to polish😂
@@BuzzingFish do you have an updated version?
Nice nd clean explain, thank for posting this video
You are welcome, I hope you can make your work more beautiful. 😊
@@BuzzingFish yeah sure💯
فيديو جداااا جميل ومريح للأعصاب والبصرمن شدة جماااله ياللإبداااااع 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
شكرا لكم. 😊
@@BuzzingFish ممكن اعرف اسم الماده اللي حطها علي السنفره ؟
I follow from Egypt You're really, really good. thank you for your effort 💜😍
Thankyou great video helped me big time 👍
Thanks for sharing. I’m curious what it looked like before? Is this method used if something is dull and scratched? Can certain sanding grits be skipped to polish quicker? Thank you.
Good Job. Thanks for sharing. ;-)
Thanks, you are welcome. 😊
I love your work, it's always creative and well finished... But I have to tell you, you have very beautiful hands! I always end up thinking that they are as beautiful as your art ;-) A compliment all the way from Belgium
Great video, thanks.
P100: He ruined it!😱
P10000: I believe in miracles.😏
This must be the only video i have ever seen where someone explains how to do this properly unlike other people who have never showed me properly how to get a good shine like this and I use epoxy resin all the time and have tried so many times to get it right over and over again and still i can't get it to come back again like this super shine and just stays dull and scratched looking and cannot see through it
Thank you, you have to make sure the grit of the sandpaper is gradually increased, and you can get a smooth resin work. 😊
That's true. Thank you for your careful tutorial. I hope you will get better and better.
I thought the same thing. Thank goodness they explained it step by step. On such a small item it has been the biggest educational tool ever.
You can go to polishing disc with polishing paste after the 20000 grit sand paper.. Its much faster and you will get the same results
Did you know you can also polish with toothpaste xD
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amazing! Thank you for sharing.
Wow!! Loved it🤗
Thank you, your work can look better. 😊
@@BuzzingFish I am a kindergarten teacher and love to watch your work. You have patience.
@@annaroshin1459 Thank you a lot, to be good at work, patience is the first priority. I think you also have patience, you can make it better than me. 😊
@@BuzzingFish Thank you😊🤗
This is the process, for sure.... but it doesn't have to be so exact and time consuming, every time, unless you messed up when you're working with epoxy.
You don't always have to go grit by grit, from a 400 to a 10,000. Work your way there but always finish with a 10k and a polish.
I generally start at 1000 grit. Go to 3000, then 5000, then 10000, then finish with a polish.
But the key is to not have mistakes before starting. If you get a bug or a hair or a bubble because you didn't use your heat gun... start at 150.
You are very right, thank you. I have also learned how to polish resin quickly.
真的好實用。
came out beautifully great job , but wow thats a lot of work , and damn you have fast hands lol
Thank you. You can do it too.
Beautiful!
Thanks a lot BrainToMush 😊
love this
Pretty sure you can skip a couple grits lol
First off, this is beautiful and like everyone else said you did a great job sharing the whole process 👏.
But now I have question, once I use polish in the end won't it cause the coaster to be to slick to hold a drink?
Ali Doe i add cork to some of my coasters, unless its a clear one i add these little clear rubber circles so theyre sturdy enough for drinks (:
Very detailed and makes sense, but man, what a colossal hassle. LOL. Beautiful results.
Amazing,very nice😉😉
Like 80 bucks worth of sand paper
KEYS 🔑 but once you have it you use it for ever
More like $8...
TheDanielShepherd ikr I have even more for 12 on Amazon
@@josephjohn7209 IDK...I’ve gone to 1200 (bored as hell with the clogged resin sandpaper) and then polished with the stuff I always used for gold and silver...but it’s STILL not right! Will go back, yet AGAIN and see what’s up! I didn’t want to go higher on the grit, but.... AND, still have to find out why my castings look watery on the inside. They are perfectly cured, just not crystal clear!
@@freewaybaby That honestly sounds like a curing issue. Perhaps you havent been mixing your resin long enough to clear it of streaks?
great video, thank you. approximately how long did it take you for this one coaster in real-time?
I feel like there’s a bidding going on as the numbers are shown!🤣
Very good video❤
So crazy you can get this amount of shine without doing a top coat!
Hi
Is it necessary to sand with all these sandpaper or can you omit any steps?
This is beautiful! Can I possibly ask a question? If I have a resin pendant that has started going matte (it has a sterling silver backing) should I use sandpaper to get rid of any inconsistencies before painting with a gloss? I'm not experienced and don't want to ruin the pendant further. Thanks!
Drop it in paint thinner and bleach mixed 1 to 1 for a day and it should be looking brand new by then
It is very beautiful
Thank you a lot. 😊
Awesome. I need to go find me some fine grit sandpaper.
The results were amazing!! But goddamn that's a lot sand paper
Any tips for 3D rounded objects? Like hearts? I’m having trouble getting rid of my scratch marks from sanding
Hermoso, gracias!!!
Gracias. 😊
Thank u so much...much needed
Thanks a lot Sumeraki 😊
Watching this when i dont even own a resin mold🌚
For the polishing process, did you use only lapping paste or together with the Flitz (in the description) as well?
SO FKKN COOL!!
Thanks for details
There has got to be an easier faster way to do that!
I wish there was but I don't think there is.. can't rush art
Power tools
Same thing I said
I've been experimenting with applying a layer of epoxy over a lightly sanded piece to make it super shine and it seem like it works pretty well
Never thought that sanding a resin is this complicated. Do we really need to have all those types of sandpaper to sand a resin?
You can jump strait to a finer grit paper if you dont care about making your piece strait before you polish it. The shine Imight not last as long though if jump right to a super fine grit
Thanks. That's the one thing I could never figure out.
Amazing
Thank you.
Hi there, great video! What is best kind of cloth to use for that paste? Thanks!
Cotton cloth is the most suitable. 😊
I expect ending with words ,,no more epoxy left, cause of many samdpapering” :D
Lol
Maybe we need to make it thicc
Gracias se lija toda la pieza
Thank you. I needed this information.
Good video. This also can be done with a small sanding machine, like an orbital to speed up the process, that being said, sometimes when things are done by hands they give you another level of satisfaction. A humble suggestion: Please try to get the camera no so close to the work. If you want to do a close up make it really slow so the viewer dont get dizzy and can appreciate the detail or read the words on the items. Please keep making these videos, excellent job. Thanks.
You can just slow down the video speed in the settings, i would be annoyed if they were doing this from further away because it would be harder to see what the process is
Thanks so much for sharing this😊
What’s the name of the liquid you’re using?
Same q!
This video is useless without knowing if that’s water or what
Thats water. The abrasive papers are also known as 'water paper'.
@@souravbhowmick8549 are you 100% sure that’s water?
Nice!!!!!!!
Great👍👍👍
Thanks⚘☺
Thank you 😘
Hey, thanks that’s really helpful. Question, im a newbie at this, is there a benefit of sand paper over a Dremel/rotary polish?
You have more control when sanding by hand. With dremel it's a second when you lose focus and sand too much
@@shailaii1241 i wish I could LOVE your comment. I'm also new and bought a dremal. Wish I would have just used my sandpaper
Can you use this same concept for epoxied tumblers? I put a final layer of epoxy on a tumbler and there are a few spots where tiny dust particles landed on it. Could I use a high grit sanding pad with that paste and buff it out without having to do another layer of epoxy over it? What all would you recommend? Thanks!
Yes, you can also polish the glass like this, but the hardness of the glass is very high, so you need to pay more patience and time. 😊
did that end up working for you?? i had the same question but havent actually tried yet. lmk
thank you 🙏🏻
Mantap hasilnya...
Where do you get that sandpaper? I cant find grits over 2000...
You can search for "Waterproof Sandpaper" in amazon and you will find many grits over 2000 😊
Auto paint shops also have all kind of grits
Each time they bring out another sandpaper grit it’s like a punchline
Merci pour le partage. 👌🏽🙏🏽 je partage aussi 😉
Thank you so much
That seems like a lot of work for a coaster. Especially when I can get a beautiful result but sa ding off the edges then doing a flood coat of resin.
True
Hello:) I’m just getting into resin I actually haven’t even made my first thing yet.. so I was just wondering what sanding it down does & why I would need to do so. Also is that water u keep pouring on?
Yes, if the sandpaper is mixed with water, it will make your work smoother and will not damage your work due to the temperature rise. 😉
What is the polish that must be used ..or can we use wax polish as what we use to polish metals?
AWESOME
Thank you. 😉
Muy bonito y como queda de brillante al lijarlo. Gracias por enseñar .
MARIA ROSARIO MARTIN SANCHEZ, you are welcome, I'm glad you like my resin work, thank you. 😊
Hi me again, what about small part scratch or damage, have to use sandpaper for whole part or can only do damage part, tkx
If the scratches are not very serious, you can use sandpaper with 5000-10000 grit to polish it. If you don't need overall sanding, you can also use tape to cover areas that don't need to be sanded. 😊
@@BuzzingFish thanks for your advise, i am not really understood that what kind of tape you mentioned
You can search for "packing tape" in amazon, it's ordinary tape.
@@BuzzingFish wow, ordinary transparent tape cover it, it is too convenience, tkx
0:58 is that water?
Yes, it's better to use water for sanding with epoxy !
这个只能定制不能批量生产吧？
Victor Lu yes, sure 🤪🧐
Thank you for the tutorial, which saves on adding layers of resin. Much appreciated.
This video is the most basic polishing video. If you have a power tool, you can speed up the polishing process. 😊
@@BuzzingFish I will try it with my power tool. Thanks for the tip
That Nice Thank you
what polish do you use?? please answer thank you!
I use a diamond polishing paste. You can use car polishing paste, it is easy to buy. 😊
I wonder what happens if you skip some grits, like do every other grit, so instead of having to sandpaper 10 times you can do it 5 times and it still ends up polished 🧐 😬
If you skip some grit, your work may not be too smooth and will have some scratches. 😉
What were the colourful things inside of the resin? They looked super cute. Also thanks for the detailed video, I loved how it shows the full process unlike other videos that just skip through steps.
Those are tiny colored dried flowers 💐
This is great, Thank you!
Can I try this on my car headlights?