ready to put the finish on the Dragon house sign

[Dragonkort]

ok iv finally finished the Dragon house sign and im ready to put the finish on it.  I put weather sealent on it before i painted it.  My girl friend gave me some epoxy reisn, The directions are worn off the bottle which is ok as i know how to mix it but what I need to know is will expoxy reisin stand up well outside and if not what would recomend I use as the finish? Thank you all so much 

[FrankEV]

They make boats, and many other things for outside use, with epoxy resin...I'm sure it will hold up for a long time.

I hope the epoxy resin is clear kind, like they use on Bar tops, or it might hide your paint work.  Don't know if, in your other post, you showed it before or after the epoxy was applied.

 

[amazingkevin]

On 2/15/2021 at 12:35 PM, Dragonkort said:

ok iv finally finished the Dragon house sign and im ready to put the finish on it.  I put weather sealent on it before i painted it.  My girl friend gave me some epoxy reisn, The directions are worn off the bottle which is ok as i know how to mix it but what I need to know is will expoxy reisin stand up well outside and if not what would recomend I use as the finish? Thank you all so much 

girl i have never see anything you constructed that i would not display on my wall of fame. when in doubt ask Mr. Spike!!!

[Dragonkort]

lol thank you kevin.  I dont do a lot of really complex stuff mainly because the more fret cuts in a picture the project always wound up breaking the closer i got to being finished being on here let me know that the only thing i really did wrong was not using the right kind of wood.  There are some things you just dont know or take a really long time to figure out when you teach yourself from books.  Iv looked through a ton of my scroll saw books at the patterns to see if i missed something where it tells what wood to use and i didnt, the patterns all just say 1/4 in baltic bearch. After I use up a good portion of the wood my friend gave me i'll ask spike to get me some of the more expinsive wood.  Right now im working on the armor of God wood paper dolls and i printed out a few copies of a unicorn mosic that im going to cut to. one of them im going to turn into a puzzle...i think all i have to do in order to convert it into a puzzle is to make the little tab like things here and there when i cut it out so the pieces hold together better when put together. We'll see how that goes before i try to turn some of the other patterns into puzzle.  Since i cant draw a stright line with a ruler i'll have to see how the first one  looks. Then im going to do one mosic in 1/4 inch wood for top and bottom and one with 1/4 inc wood for the backing and 3/4 wood for the pieces and see how they come out. and of course iv printed out more of the compound cut carving patterns. and inbetween all that im trying to clean off my lath table as iv found a few begers lath patterns i want to try out when i get a minute. we wont mention the yarn and cloth patterns i have in the planning stages waiting for me to get to them. lol i usuly wind up doing one kind of craft most of them and then switching to another for awhile so we'll see when i get around to actualy setting up the sewing machine and emboridy machine. lol 

 

[Dragonkort]

oh and frank i used the clear expoxy resin.  Iv only got one side finished because i want to make a few more small things that i can use any expoxy reasin on that i might have left over from doing the other side of the dragon house sign