Introduction: Police force Badge in Epoxy River Wall Interior decoration

Today we will take a leak a police badge, casted in epoxy river fence decor!

Supplies

- Law badge (this one is the hardest to obtain)
- Oak slab
- Epoxy
- Epoxy pigment

Step 1: Removing the Barque From the Slab

We start unsatisfactory by removing the bark from the oak slab victimisation a chisel!

Gradation 2: Smoothen the Live Sharpness With a Flap Magnetic disc (angle Sub)

Exploitation an angle grinder with a flap disc, we smoothen the live edge! Induce sure all the bark is removed after this part of the build!

Step 3: Create the First Half of the River (track Saw)

Using a track saw, we create the first incomplete of the river.

Footfall 4: Create the Second Half of the River (table Power saw)

After removing the first half of the river with the give chase saw, we now rich person a straight edge. Lay out this straight sharpness to the fence in of the table saw to absent the second half of the river.

Step 5: Using a Stop Block, Cut the Halves to Size (miter Saw)

At the mitre saw station, we use a stop kibosh to sheared altogether the pieces to precisely the unchanged size. In this build I volition be making 3 river wall decors with 3 patrol badges, sol in total I need 6 halves.

Step 6: Immix & Match

Lay over the pieces happening the ground and cipher out which pieces fit best with each other.

Step 7: Flatten the Parts (planer)

Victimization a planer, we flatten the parts so they are all at the same thickness.

Step 8: Making the Mold

Using some scrap pieces of plywood, we make molds for the pieces to fit in! Make a point to take the dimensions so that the pieces fit snug in the stamp.

Step 9: Jumble a Runty Bit of Epoxy to Seal the Edges

Victimization a bit of epoxy we seal the live edges. This ensures the wood South Korean won't release bubbles when the epoxy is casted inside the river.

Step 10: Adding the Pieces to the Mold

Place the pieces in the mold and make doomed the shape is level. This way when the epoxy is casted, you ensure IT won't bubble over on same side!

Step 11: Mix Heavenward Epoxy and Add Discolor Pigment for the First Pour

The river will be poured in two Sessions. The first level will be colored. The badge will beryllium added and the second level testament be transparent, and so that the police badge volition lay on the colored layer.

Step 12: Pour the First Layer

Pour the first layers. As you butt see I cause secondhand 3 colors. Fully obvious, black and blue.

Step 13: Press in the Law Badge

Before the frist layer of epoxy is fully hardened, insistence in the constabulary badge.

Footmark 14: Cast the Second Layer of Epoxy

The second layer of epoxy is transparent. This way you can clearly see the badge through the epoxy!

Step 15: Remove the Tack From the Mold

When the epoxy glue is completely cured, you can remove it from the regulate.

Step 16: Chopped the Art object to Sizing

Use the track saw to name the initiatory shorten to use as a reference point. After this use the wall in of the table saw as a guide for the freshly thin out side to thin out the piece to the desired dimensions!

Stair 17: Routing Edges

Rout the edges the way you want. I left one piece As is, one got a round terminated edge and one a chamfered edge.

Step 18: The Tedious Job of Sanding

After this comes the tedious task of sanding. We are going to sand the piece from 150 grit every the way up to 2000 grit! Everything in a higher place 1000 grit is wet sanding.

Dance step 19: Shining

After hours of sanding, you are NOT through with! Hold your shining bilobed to the epoxy glue and use a gondola polish machine with a polish pad (sponge) to polish the epoxy until shiny!

Step 20: Finishing

Almost done! Apply the land up! In this case I secondhand danish oil. Fret it in precise and remove whatsoever excess if requirement. Apply multiple layers, I advocate about 2-3.

Footstep 21: Get Your Little Helper to Put It in a Corner

Almost done! Well, the project is done, now we have to set out it in a box and go and gift information technology to the law!

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