Solid color epoxy

[jack duren]

Does anyone know if you can buy a solid color epoxy that can be poured or worked in and be sanded off? Kinda as an inlay.Looking for red and black...Thx Jack

[Charles McClain]

I've seen fly tyers mix in Rit dye, to tint epoxy. Baically they cut the Rit with alcohol and then mix a few drops of that into the epoxy. I don't know if you could get a pure color that way but you could try it.

Good Luck
Charles

[Mike Cutler]

Jack

Google Mohawk Finishes. I don't remember who has my catalog, but they have what you are looking for.

Here it is.

http://www.mohawk-finishing.com/

[Jamie Buxton]

You can buy the usual transparent epoxy, and color it with pigments made by the same outfits that make the epoxy. I got mine from an auto parts store, in the fiberglassing area. IIRC, it was sold as pigment for polyester resin, but it works just as well with epoxy resin.

And I haven't tried it, but I'd bet that universal colorants would work as well. Universal colorants are pigments sold in paint stores for coloring paint. They are compatible with both solvent-borne paints and waterborne paints. There are sets of small quantities available from Woodcraft (http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?FamilyID=5522) among others.

The very useful thing about this approach is that you get to make exactly the color you want.

[john bateman]

Some of the hobby stores such as AC Moore carry "Castin' Craft" epoxy and various colorants.http://www.acmoore.com/search.aspx?categoryid=329&manufacturer=349

http://images.acmoore.com/ProductImages/268/268498_1.jpg
Be sure to use their epoxy, and not their "resin". The resin never hardens completely when used as an inlay.
http://images.acmoore.com/ProductImages/268/268430_1.jpg

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

You can use any dry powder pigment or dye.
Every single paste or tube tint will ruin an epoxy because of what the carrier is made from.

Never add alcohol to an epoxy.
Every Epoxy I know of has it's ability to form up it's long chain molecule inhibited by alcohol.

Some are thinnable using Naptha. Others with Xylene.
Check with the manufacturer.

As an aside a Dye is not a Pigment. Dyes dissolve such as Aniline Dyes.
Pigments are micro sized particulate and don't dissolve but disperse.

[Doug Shepard]

There's always the Inlace stuff
http://www.turtlefeathers.com/text/inlace/inlace-dyes.html
The smell is stronger than working with epoxy but it's pretty easy to work with.

[Jack Briggs]

UTC's (universal tinting compounds), such as TintsAll.

http://woodworker.com/cgi-bin/FULLPRES.exe?PARTNUM=928-091

[terry hansen]

I use transtint liquid color dye with the cheap harbor freight 5min epoxy to fill knots and other defects. About 2 to 3 drops per quarter size dollop does the trick. No ill observed effect in setting time or end result. Although I would guess too much dye would alter drying time.

Wait for almost hard and use a microplane to level and then let set and sand smooth.

[Chris Padilla]

Check out this site for an excellent and great price for epoxy: www.raka.com (http://www.raka.com) I get all my epoxy from them.