You are the Mad Scientist of woodworking. I love to see you go through your thought process while figuring something out.

Tamar, if you ever get sick of woodworking you absolutely have a future as a flight attendant. Those explaining hand gestures are second to none. You had me mesmerised at the "tape one edge" segment.

I love the way you show all the lessons learned from mistakes. Great job, you rock!

Here’s some hints. To minimize bubbles, drill a hole in the bottom of your mixing cup, and cover it with tape. When you mix the epoxy, the bubbles will rise to the top. Just remove the tape for pouring and you’re getting the epoxy that’s bubble free. My second hint is to be careful making a tape dam around the edge. I did that once and the epoxy formed a meniscus: the edge had a raised sharp lip that had to be sanded down.

Having used epoxy a couple times on much smaller scale I can say that the trick for a lot of depth and Rich color and texture is definitely to do layers. If you went over top of that with the same colors but less opaque in a second layer and follow the same pattern the lines of the marble would be slightly shifted from the lines in the lower half. Also you could vary the colors of the base layer slightly to give more depth. I definitely think if you'd use two different colors on the base it would have worked out better either by dropping thicker lines in or by dirty mixing the two different colors into one cup and then pouring that on. It'll be less noticeable if you pour two different colors into one cup and then pour that on said if you pour one color on the pour another color on and then mix it with your hand. It'll give more natural variation. I haven't tried marble myself but I have done galaxies and the way to give it depth and like there's both darkness and bright colors from a nebula is multiple layers of thin epoxy.

You came, you saw, you conquered! I’m loving the table even though faux marble is not my thing. Nice trial runs and explanations too.

Looks great! You can coat the epoxy with satin polyurethane after sanding to help knock down the sheen and add UV protection to the epoxy.

To knock back the sheen there's no reason to work up from 220 grit. The finish is already smooth and glossy, you don't need to bring it all the way down and then work up. Start with 2000 grit and if it's still too shiny work your way down. Plus, you've got all those test squares you can work on first to see what grit gives you the effect you want. Also, feathers are the traditional tools for applying veining in faux finishes. Also, different kinds of feathers will give different effects. Flight feathers, which have firm compact barbs, can make a thinner line. Feathers that are fluffy, like Ostrich, will give a more diffuse effect. It's worth experimenting with acrylics to develop technique. And any veins in marble that may cross are never at right angles to each other.

Resin artist here. Really fun to watch you explore this medium. Hope to see you come back to using some of these techniques again. I’ve found that scorched epoxy is best dealt with by removing the effected epoxy as soon as possible … all of the scorched material will cling to itself so lift it out with a toothpick and go back in with a bit more fresh epoxy. Painful but best to rip off the bandaid. Great video as always, thanks for the entertainment!

Thank you Tamar! That table is absolutely beautiful and a functionally "Trick Build". Once again your explanations with technical trials and tribulations are a real benefit to all. Personally if you are going to reduce the gloss I would start with 1500 and work down because of the possibility of particle build up and might even use a bit water in a fine spray bottle to create a slurry. Your faux pa burned area looks to be about 320 and starting higher will take it down slowly and more evenly. Either way a Most Excellent marble look with lots of good lessons for future projects! Always appreciate what you bring to the craft and love the way you challenge yourself every time!! Hat Tip, ~PJ P.S. Your EnviroKlenz sponsor looks high quality and like the idea of a UV version and their household products...may try some!

Really appreciate your courage in taking this on, we all learn from it. Love the Jackson Pollack technique.

You are absolutely amazing Tamar. I love the way you can naturalely speaking. Great job! You are the best!♥️

I like it the way it is! Be careful sanding it. I saw a video where someone sanded and it turned brown, probably from the heat friction burning the epoxy. Always love your videos. Thanks Tamar.

Your stuff is awesome. Keep it coming. Your honesty is so refreshing.

There's no need to be shy about the things that didn't work out. They are literally the most educational parts of your videos. We appreciate you making mistakes so that we don't also make them. Thank you Tamar.

First of all, this was a very good 1st try! Check out stonecoat’s products. Advertised as no VOCs. Using the one bucket method adds a level of risk of adding unmixed product onto your surface. Scraping, then dumping contents into 2nd bucket and mixing again not only keeps your portions consistent, it ensures everything is thoroughly mixed. You’re correct about the round over. Always have a minimum of a 1/8 inch round over, but a quarter inch is recommended. Adding a dam around the edge to hold epoxy for a little while is what’s called a, “dirty pour”. Ton of videos out there on the process, but IMO Stonecoat & RK3 are the masters. I do not recommend using packing tape for the damn because you run the risk of residue on the sides when you release the dam. Finally, Stonecoat offers an ultimate topcoat, which you can get in either gloss or matte finish.

Absolutely "MARBLEOUS" tips Tamar. Seriously, you are the perfect teacher and we love what you share with us.

Замечательный результат 👍! Отличная идея и реализация!!!

Thanks for the video! Lots of tips as per usual. 😁 In stead of sanding the table back, try using a hard wax oil system like Rubio Monocoat Pure, or Osmo. Both are satin by nature, and provide a finish to woods and epoxy.. Worth a test on one of your samples to see if can work, and save you some work.

Great tutorial! Thank you for taking the time to film and post this. Thumbs up!

another great learn along.. indeed not too shabby at all.. always a pleasure to watch. you are awesosome

Thanks for sharing your finishing process and I'm glad you liked my feather suggestion. I used the feather slightly differently than you were talking about, but I was using paint and polyurethane, not epoxy, so your mileage may vary (etc.) if you try my suggestion. I dipped the feather into the paint I was using for the veining and drew the veins using the feather. Imagine painting with a feather instead of a brush. I used the whole length of the feather and dragged it along the dried painted basecoat to make my veins. The technique was similar to what you did with the popsicle stick when you tweaked the veins and black marks. I would occasionally roll the feather about 30 - 60 degrees to vary the line thickness. Perhaps if you drizzled on the veins and then traced along the line with the feather rolling slightly from time to time? Again, I've not tried this with epoxy. Anyway, great video once again.

Great work! Somehow missed the epoxy part. Keep it up!

Looks great Tamar! I love how you share the successful elements of a project - as well as the not so successful. It actually really helps in understanding the whole process. And by the way, I thought the Kiss Alive album in the background at 14:30 was cool! Brought me back to my teenage days for a moment!! Keep up the great work.

Fantastic job. Well done. I love it.

You're creativity is inspiring. Way to go Tamar!

Thanks for putting the bar while the ad was running, I still watched it because I found it interesting and you explained everything so well, but I know it's important for some people.

Thanks for sharing your process Tamar, very useful

A great looking project and a very interesting and informative presentation. You definitely show what can be done without having to be a guru, a great confidence builder for us weekend warriors

I really liked you running through your lessons learned. Great video (as are all your other video videos!).

great job , and great educational summary , plus loved ur energy always pump me up :D

Lessons learned are so helpful.

Loved the kids art studio not being covered up. All of us with kids know that joy of finding new studios all over the house.

You're videos are always well done, and so much fun to watch Tamar. Keep up the awesome work !

Amazing work, Tamar! It really turned out beautiful! 😃 Some day I'm definitely going to try something like that! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

When you do anything with your enthusiastic style, I like it.

We see a superb piece of work in the making. Then you tell us about all the little niggles. We still see a fantastic piece of work. Then you chuck a snowball at as and smile like a big kid! Thank you so much for your videos they are little slices of joy and lessons in mind over matter.

Tamar, just in time as I've been considering an epoxy project. Weather is holding me up right now but it is certainly going to be an adventuresome 2022! Thanks for Sharing!

Wow this is top-quality content - great look, great work, full of learning - thank you

Thank you, this is awesome.

I also just did my first pour. It’s a dining room table. I thought it was too glossy as well and had tried to sand off some of the gloss and I’m not happy with it at all. I hope yours goes better. I’m going to add another layer to see if I can fix it (crossed fingers)!

Great job ! Your first attempt turned out awesome. I am a new subscriber. Really enjoying your content.

I liked so much. Laborious and beautiful. Congratulations!

That's so awesome I am going to try this 😀

love the artwork on the wall behind you

Straordinario veramente molto brava

Interesting wall decorating.

Strong Island!!! 💪 Amazing video as always and definitely adding to my woodworking collection of tips. Loved seeing all the different samples at first. Two tips on my experience with epoxy, dam the sides and wait about 30 minutes then hand rub over edges wherever a dry void happens (you covered that). Secondly, after mixing epoxy, always transfer to another container and scrape sides and bottom and mix a few more minutes. This eliminates any tacky spots when epoxy wasn’t mixed thoroughly. Keep up the amazing work and interested to see how you knock down the sheen. Being that table to be in a sunny room, I’d sand it down, apply oil based poly, then wet sand, and apply at least two more coats of oil based poly. I never applied final coat of satin oil poly to cut down on sheen, but I’m sure it’d work. 👍

The table with the marble look looks great, great work Tamar 👌

this stuff is cool. love the way you show it. not worried about looking like you dont make mistakes. you are very tallentent with what you do. and realy enjoy your videos.

Nice experiment. You are so meticulous! Great information and results.

Graeat job ! A lot of work but the results totally worth it.

Beautiful video 👌👌👌

Awesome project overall! As asked on Instagram about what the top is made of, the illusion was perfect from the beginning 😉

I think it looks great to be honest. A great video as always, really nice put together which is an art in itself!

Another quality video. Thanks for sharing your mistakes, it's appreciated. Some great epoxy tips are from "stone coat countertops" especially on how to do edges.

I think it looks amazing. 😍

I think the sanding idea is excellent. Coming from a background in automotive refinishing, I suggest the wet sanding method. Not only does the sandpaper last much longer, it’ll give a consistent finish across the entire piece. All in all, I love the way you presented the project and it looks marvelous. Be proud of it, it’s an amazing experiment 😃

Another brilliant vid. Your testing finishes before the main table surprised me, I thought you had done the table immediately. Great idea to see what you needed to do first, coz a couple of those samples would look amazing on a different piece and now you have the details. I'm keen to see how it looks after "honing" but I suspect you may not need to go as high as 2000 grit. I've sanded MDF to a mirror gloss with sanding sealer and 1200 grit. If the epoxy is in any way similar, a satin finish may happen around 1000 to 1500 grit already. Your marble turned out almost flawlessly already and I think this will make it even more natural looking.

Looks nice! One tip though, make sure to scrape the sides of your container when you're mixing your epoxy. That way you *can* scrape the sides when you're pouring and use all of that expensive epoxy! Also, if you don't scrape the sides when mixing, it's entirely possible that you'll have different sections of your pour cure at different rates.

Hi Tamar, great experiment!

Tamar ... Thanks for the tip on the EnviroKlenz. Like you, my shop is in an unheated garage in a northeast state... BURR ! I've been working in my basement and had to be very careful on the types of stain and finishes I used not to stink out the house. Thanks for blazing this path. Stink problem ... Solved ! Also, thanks for the epoxy tutorial. Now I'm not so worried about trying it. Wednesday is Groundhog Day... Let's hope for an early spring !

That’s awesome 👏 really love 💕 it looks like magic congratulations 👏

Greeeeeeat experiment Tamar!

I think it looks great!

A salt shaker works great for dusting with accents. I have been using powder coat powders not only for coloring the epoxy but also for adding sparkles and controlled dusting.

Oooo, thank you for uploading this ^^. I've been wanting to recreate a granite I love for my desk and have been researching like crazy. I'm likely going to paint it before adding epoxy though. I've also been curious if stonecoat countertops is ACTUALLY good because I can't find any videos other than their's.

Venetian plaster, veneziano gesso techniques are used for faux marble. Feathers have been used to make faux quarter sawn oak, which has similar shspes as marble.

I did my dining room table a couple years ago. I put a couple coats of urethane on it. This has not only held up, but it brings down the shine significantly. Learned this from the Legarri KZfaq, though I used Mas like you did.

It looks nice. I doubt anyone would ever know the difference. You are right about being glossy. Great video. Thank you for your time.

I think the sheen looks great in that room. Plenty of light to make it look great. The sides can be sanded to make it more shiny to match the top.

Thanks for sharing your experiment! Good work! So many comments, I did not get through them all, but a great dam, is using aluminum tape...if not already mentioned. Comes off easy with no resido...applies easily to....and moldable.....just a thought...again great job!

Please share the sanding process/results! I think the contrast of the gloss against the muted colors of the room looks nice, but am excited to see how it looks sanded!

Nice! Please, which Rust-Oleum primer spray was your choice. I am attempting to work on mdf without raising it, however with success so far. Thank you.

That's cool! I want to try. I love granite, so I'd incorporate all the techniques you tried. I think I'll sink it and put glass on top

Wonderful

the reason your kids like that one the best is because you can see a skull in it!! i love it but would be very difficult to get another skull to show up lol

Really nice video, once again. The dam along the edge is definitely an improvement but to find the correct timing is a challenge, you need to fine tuning related to the temperature.

I think it came out beautiful Tamar!

I have a interesting idea for you -wood wagon wheel coffe table but the inside of the spokes is filled with epoxy (middle where the shaft used to be can be used for single wood turned post with a cross for legs ).Like scenes of wild west ,printed out on a paper to look like 3d and then covered in resin between spokes. Like a life story of a wheel before it became a coffe table. You could find old wagon wheel or give a try in making a new one and then making it look old .

Just did my first experiment with epoxy...terrified me! Mostly because of time constraints, inexperience, and the importance of the pieces. Didn't want to screw them up. Just filling in cracks & voids of table tops, nothing big, but enough to freak me out. End result: still some open cracks, but they look real good, and ready to back to our shop. Ty for your video!

Super cool 😍

There is a company called Stone Coat counter tops that has a roll on clear coat that is available in a matte finish. It also has good UV protection to keep the epoxy from yellowing when exposed to sunlight.

Legal demais. Parabéns

Hopefully you revisit this and show the results of any of the other procedures you mentioned.

No matter what you do I love it Greetings from germany 😃

Great experiment. If it were mine, I think I'd make the top a bit larger so there is an overhang. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong, but right now it looks like it is flush with the round base? And I agree that you need more black in it. Still, all things considered, I think it turned out pretty cool!

Quality, skillz 👏 😎🎙🖌✅

Maybe check stonecoat countertops before the next epoxy project. They do an fantastic job to educate.

hello ! something that might be useful to other woodworkers and artists out here, it is actually easier to darken white rather than whiten black! saves a lot of time and avoids making too much :)

As always Tamar...you are so great! I love the bravery you have to explore new things and processes and get fun while executing!!!... btw, can you show us the guitar stand in the background? Are you also a guitar player? Salud!!

Guau... Que guitarras más chulas. iii .. 😁

Pokoknya apik poollll.....i love you fuuulllll

I saw the full table build earlier. It was interesting to see how you arrived at the table top. Bill

When it comes to scraping the bucket or not the solution is to have a second bucket pour the contents of the first bucket into the second bucket and then scrape the sides of the first bucket into the second bucket as well then remix and then you can pour and use the entire contents.

That air cleaner sounds just the thing I could use for Midwest painting in my own basement…. Checks price…. You know windows and fans work wonders! A good video none the less.

7:17 I love that you bothered to get all dressed up, drag your stuff outside just to get this shot :)

Tamar, there used to be a show on PBS called "The Furniture Guys." In one episode they tackled marbling. Small paint brushes and feathers were part of the approach as well as clear layers to give depth. I believe they weren't using epoxy. The episode might still be available on KZfaq.

You make me smile ✌️( not in a creepy or condescending way , just joyful platonic appreciation)

Unrelated but nice article on the adjustable router fence in Fine Woodworking Winter 2022.