Workshops and Lectures

Workshop summarizes the process of casting of epoxy resin from the very beginning in the choice of wood and materials to the very end, i.e. the maintenance of the produced casting. You will know how to work and will be able to make a table from epoxy resin, a serving board or create a paperweight.

The whole process of casting of epoxy resin:

• Wood selection and wood penetration,
• Mold – production and its treatment before casting,
• Calculation of epoxy resin consumption, types of resins, how to choose the right one?
• Pigmentation and coloring of clear epoxy resin,
• Mixing and pouring the epoxy resin into the mold,
• Removing the resin table mold,
• Epoxy table milling,
• Wood and epoxy repair,
• Epoxy resin table sanding,
• Epoxy resin table polishing,
• Epoxy table protection, surface treatments,
• Epoxy resin table maintenance.

How should this happen?

The capacity of the date will be limited to 10 people. After introducing us as lecturers, we will start with a short presentation of Synpa (10 minutes max., just so you have an idea of ​​where you are, what our background is and what we do). Then we will start going through the whole process of casting epoxy (table, board, etc.) – choosing wood, choice of a suitable resin, pigmentation, mixing, casting, demolding, processing, grinding, polishing, surface treatment and protection of the table top. The participants are divided into 2-3 groups. We will always stop at each step and show you this step in practice (sometimes with examples of failed and successful trials). Individual actions are performed by the participants themselves under our supervision. We show mistakes and how those mistakes affect the final result. We dispel myths, explain why certain things happen and how they even happen to avoid. We will show you various possibilities for achieving the desired appearance and partially explain chemical principles, etc.

During the course: 

• Each group will make a simple and cheap mold which will not leak.
• Each group unmoulds the casting from the previous workshop using a simple procedure.
• Each group casts a serving board (these are then semi-finished products for the next workshops).
• We will explain the principles of wood stabilization and completely stabilize one wood during the course.
• You will penetrate the wood and prepare it for casting.
• We will perform a resin "boil" (exothermic reaction) so you know what it means, why it happens, how to prevent it and how to behave when it happens.
• We have prepared a competition for a prize.
• We will cast the resin into the gel phase, show the techniques of working with the gel phase and the possibilities that this state offers.
• We will have a board blank ready for sanding – you will mill and sand this blank in the same way as it should be sanded. You will have the opportunity to try and assess the effect of the quality of the sander on the sanding itself. We will tell and point out the most common mistakes when grinding and tell you where you are making a mistake when grinding.
• For ladies, for whom grinding is often boring, we have prepared jewelry semi-finished products, which they can grind and polish to a high shine themselves in the meantime – and then they can take the jewelry home :-)
• After sanding, you will polish the board to a high mirror shine.
• You will finish the cutting board – we will tell and show the differences in different surface finishes, their pros and cons.
• In the technological break for surface treatment, you can cast epoxy paintings – we will talk about materials, techniques, possibilities, etc.

We expect plenty of questions to be answered as we go along.
Duration from 8.30 am to approximately 4:30-5:30 pm. There will be only one 45-minutes lunch break.

When and where the courses are held