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Project Objectives:
Project Objectives:
Students will design and make an charcuterie resin pour board using the mitre saw, table saw, planer and router.
Learning Goals:
Learning Goals:
Students will practice detailed design sketching and daily project documentation in their student portfolios
Students will gain experience using the following shop equipment: table saw, mitre saw, planer, router, hand-held orbiter sander.
Students will gain experience measuring and cutting wood precisely and mixing and pouring resin.
Project Specifications:
Project Specifications:
Watch the epoxy pours video above to get ideas for your board.
Watch Make an Epoxy Riverboard Easy above
Decide on mold: square, hexagon, or serving board
Decide on wood: walnut, ash, maple, padauk, cyan, mahogany, spanish cedar, cherry
Choose epoxy color
Make a sketch on plain white paper showing wood (colored approximately to the correct color) and resin (also approximate) color. The natural shape of the wood shapes your "river." But right now you can decide if the resin will pour around your wood like in the board with the "R", if it will pour on just one side like the "M" or if it will pour in between two pieces of wood.
Square Mold
Square Mold
Serving Board Mold
Serving Board Mold
Hexagon Mold
Hexagon Mold
Rectangle Mold
Rectangle Mold
walnut with Caribbean & caviar blue
Purple & caviar with olive wood
ocean, caviar and pearl with walnut wood
olive wood with emerald green
walnut with savage (red) and battleship
olive wood with midnight, battleship, pearl
walnut with Caribbean
In the wood shop:
In the wood shop:
cut your wood
chop the correct length using the chop saw
cut your piece of wood down its length using the table saw to make
hammer off/sand any bark from the edge of the wood
physically check to make sure you wood fits in the mold
In the den:
In the den:
set wood into mold
place weights on top of wood (this keeps the epoxy from going underneath your wood)
Prep Epoxy
Prep Epoxy
- Pour 2 parts A and 1 part B in volume
- Start by adding 1/8 tsp or 1/4 tsp micah powder (color) and mix. You can add more later.
Attach mixer attachment to drill
Attach mixer attachment to drill
Mix epoxy slowly for 2 minutes.
Mix epoxy slowly for 2 minutes.
Once mixed, spin drill in trash can to to get excess resin off of the mixer.
Once mixed, spin drill in trash can to to get excess resin off of the mixer.
WIPE DOWN mixer with alcohol wipe.
WIPE DOWN mixer with alcohol wipe.
Return mixer and drill.
Return mixer and drill.
HEAT GUN
HEAT GUN
CLEAN
CLEAN
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