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What's that foggy, cloudy stuff appearing on your freshly cured epoxy? Learn what it is . . . and how to fix it. If you’ve worked with epoxy, read articles on working with it, or watched videos of folks working on their boats using epoxy, chances are that you have heard of amine blush. Even if you’re not familiar with the term, you might recognize that cloudy looking stuff that can appear on a freshly-epoxied piece of wood. What the heck is it, why is it important to familiarize yourself …

Continuing our Epoxy 101 series, this month we’re looking at just what makes wood and epoxy such an effective and practical pair. (Make sure to read part 1 first, “Three Essential Rules of Epoxy,”) Quick recap of those 3 rules: Keep it off you It takes two to Tango Get it out of the Cup (Honorable mention: Go to the Bathroom Before you Mix Epoxy) With those foundational rules understood, I want to talk about some of the ways in which you are likely to use epoxy in your build …

A lot of new boatbuilders are a bit intimidated by the idea of working with epoxy. If you follow these three very basic rules you will be on the road to epoxy success, so let’s dig into each a bit.Rule #1: Keep it off of you The first rule has to do with the safety aspect of working with epoxy. Epoxy is a sensitizer, each time you get it on your skin you get increasingly sensitized to it. The more sensitive you are to it, the more and more likely you are to develop issues from the exposure. …