Yes you can apply our epoxy resin over stained wood.
Epoxy over wood stain.
The trouble is that this isn t a real stain at all in fact epoxy is plastic and just like every other plastic you ve ever worked with it can t absorb the color from the stain solution.
How to apply epoxy resin to stained wood you follow our ten step process to add epoxy resin to stained wood but before you do so you should take a small piece and test the epoxy on it.
Looking for some guidance on how to correct this mistake.
Epoxy over oil based stain answered so i recently made the mistake of staining a piece i want to later apply an epoxy coat to with an oil based stain.
You must make sure that the stain is properly dried before applying epoxy.
In theory yes you can stain epoxy wood filler.
Adhesion testing was done with a number of stains.
Since then we have done some additional adhesion testing to a number of stains.
Applying epoxy over stained surfaces jennifer b.
With a piece like that you do not want the wood to rot any further.
Yes it s perfectly possible to apply epoxy resin over a stained piece of wood.
As such you can use an epoxy like this to preserve it for much longer than you normally could.
We recommend the use of water based stains.
October 03 2019 20 02.
If an oil based stain has already been applied the official recommendation would.
In varnish over epoxy epoxyworks 18 we touched on the topic of wood stains under epoxy and warned that some oil based stains would cause an adhesion problem for west system epoxy.
Rtg epoxy is fully waterproof making it a good choice for projects that involve driftwood or other partially rotted wood.
Epoxy once in and hardened will have to be sawed or cut out to be corrected.
I ve been reading around online and fully understand now that applying the epoxy to this would be quite the no no.
Our product is not designed to be used over oil based stains urethanes or paints.
It s cured hard enough for that application and seems to stand the test of time pretty well.
Oil based products create adhesion and finish issues.
You use a gel stain to apply over the epoxy wood filler once it has hardened.