Superclear EPOXY Resin Kit Crystal Clear 2 Gallon Resin Epoxy Kit for Casting Resin, Art Resin, Mica Pigment Powder, River Tables, Live Edge Tables, BAR Tops, COUNTERTOP EPOXY 1:1

I have done several countertops using a popular and well-known seller that is a bit more expensive. I wanted to try a cheaper alternative but did not want to give up the quality. I tried this product as an alternative to do an exotic kitchen countertop pour, and I was not disappointed. It is a bit thicker, so it does not cover as easily. I found heating with a hair dryer moved it around quickly though, so I just needed to get used to a slightly different consistency. This stuff is thicker and cures a bit faster, but I actually like that it cures quicker, because I did not have to wait around nearly as long before removing the tape from the edges. Now that I have used it once, I can confidently say it is a good product, it just works slightly differently from what I had used before. No huge differences, it is just thicker and cures a bit faster, but again, that turns out to be a positive. Another benefit I found is that this epoxy has few if any bubbles, and I did stir it with a drill and paint paddle stirrer. I mean few if any bubbles occurred in the epoxy at all. The key to stirring is to keep the paddle in the epoxy and to hit the bottom and sides fully and stir it for a good 3 to 4 minutes. Once you no longer see any of the white streaks, it is thoroughly mixed. I had no soft or sticky spots at all, and it was nice and dry and hard within 20 hours when I went back to check it. The tops were perfect and I'm more than pleased. If you are having problems with soft or sticky spots, you are probably not mixing it properly. Do not be afraid to mix with a drill and paint paddle, as that worked well for me. In the end, I got a beautiful set of counter tops at about half the usual costs. I give it 5 stars for now. I will try and update this later as to how well it holds up but mixing and pouring and the outcome so far are first class! I give it a full 5 stars for now. No smell at all, very clear so far, mixed easily and the colors are perfect.

I've been in the epoxy game for years, and have used many different products and have installer status with other brands. This 4star review is for their 1:1 ratio surface epoxy. I think this company's de ep pour product is a great formula for that intended use. Short version: This product works fine for the price, but there are better 1:1 epoxies for a little bit more money . I've have gotten good results with it, but I've been doing this a long time (see photos attached). Pros: it is very reasonably priced, fast shipping, it hardens to a clear decently tough top coat finish (haven't used long enough to comment on uv resistance). Cons: it seems to trap alot more bubbles than most products I've used. I've found myself continually torching this product to remove excess bubbles alot of which are micro bubbles that pop like carbonated soda. It has cure time similar to most 1:1 epoxies, but doesn't mix as well if you add a second accent pour after the initial flood coat (finish looks different). I've found that I need to pour my detail colors all in one first pour for it to blend properly. As all 1:1 epoxies do, it will heat, harden, and spoil if left still in a cup with in any sort of volume, so be quick about it or have someone constantly stirring anything not poured yet. It also has a stronger smell to it. My assistant whines about it. If you have experience, for the price, it's worth a try. I'm using it to make cheaper sample boards for showrooms. If youre new to epoxy, this product may not give you the results you want as easy as others might.

Best I've ever seen. I've been a professional resin artist for over 20 years. From paintings on canvas to sculptures and river tables. I don't mix it in a bucket or cup since there is a chance it wont get mixed well. I use milk jugs and shake it. Which leads me to my next point. Shaking causes a ton of bubbles. Other resins just dont clear up as good as this stuff. I "Brush" of "sweep" it quickly with a larger blow torch about every 10 minutes until it starts to glass up. This brand comes clean better than anything else I've used before and sets up quickly which is great for my paintings because the canvas level can create uneven settling even if im off by a fraction. The last 3 paintings I've done with this resin have come out absolutely perfect. Im sold on the stuff! Will definitely recommend. If you need a slower curing resin, you can add a little the 50/50 deep pour resin to slow it down.

I am a veteran in the world of epoxy countertops and have had a small business since 2018. Needless to say, I have tried many epoxy brands, and my go-to is purchased from Grand Junction, CO (great results every time, heat resistant to 500 degrees.) We were doing our own kitchen, 78 sq. feet of counters, so since it was a personal project I decided to test out this brand and save some money. You get what you pay for. Thankfully I was wise enough to first do a small pour (about 1.5 sq. ft) making a small dog food tray and the design came out great and cured quickly. A few days later I poured the clear coat. It was 2.5 ounces of part A and B for a whopping total of 5 ounces. I mixed for a full five minutes in a silicone cup (exactly how I had done the design/color coat.) Yes--I mixed thoroughly, and definitely for long enough, and the epoxy was over 75 degrees (it has been in the low 100s where we live this summer and the garage is always warm.) Poured it on my dog tray project and it simply never cured. In fact, it has been two full weeks already and it is STILL sitting out in the garage, tacky. The entire thing is tacky, every square inch, not just one or two spots. I called the manufacturer and got in touch with customer service. The rep there, a young kid, told me that the ONLY reason the epoxy wouldn't have cured is if I "scraped the sides of the cup and maybe some unmixed epoxy was on there." He then said, "I mean, yeah, we get it, you want to get your money's worth since you paid for the product, but if you scrape the sides of the cup, you risk having unmixed epoxy get onto your project." Um, NO DUDE. That is not the problem. I have mixed literally hundreds of epoxy projects big and small and yes I ALWAYS scrape the sides to mix thoroughly (I am fanatical about mixing properly) and then ALWAYS transfer to a second clean cup/bucket to ensure there is no unmixed epoxy (I did not tell this to the kid who must have thought I was an idiot.) I have never once ever poured a project that did not cure, ESPECIALLY the entire surface (not just a few soft spots.) His reasoning was absurd. So, one is just supposed to mix the epoxy in the middle and not touch the sides of the cup for fear of coming in contact with unmixed epoxy?? That doesn't make sense. And even if it that WERE a plausible explanation, at least some parts of the pour should have hardened up and the "unmixed epoxy" areas would stay tacky. This was not the case. The entire thing, no matter where I touch it, is still tacky. To top it off, the entire design yellowed terribly within just a couple hours of being in sunlight. EDIT-I have attached a few photos showing how, after 2.5 weeks, we had to scrape off all the gooey epoxy using alcohol, acetone, and chisels. The entire thing had to be cleaned, sanded, and re-poured (clearcoat) using my regular go-to brand which never fails. Thank goodness we did not use this on our huge kitchen project. I will never purchase this epoxy again for anything, not even craft projects. I am sorry I bought the 2 gallon kit. Waste of money for a product that does not perform, EVERY time, exactly as it should. There is something sub-par about this formula. Mixing exactly 2.5 ounces of each for a full five minutes by timer should have definitely mixed up enough to cure properly with a rock hard finish. And the yellowing thing is a deal breaker too. The only plus about it was that it did finish out crystal clear with absolutely zero bubbles.

I originally chose Superclear Tabletop for my countertop project because it has outstanding reviews, a long history of excellence, and the item description includes "countertops" and color mixing as a usage. Hindsight says, I shouldn't have. Murphy's law has dogged this project every step of the way and I just bought my 3rd kit for the one project. 🙃 Ugh. But I actually do like this product, I just didn't fully understand it and its limitations early on. Here's what I learned that I wish I had known initially: *Low viscosity: very very thick. If you have lots of colors you are trying to add to a large surface, good luck. Dirty pours do not like to self level unless you have tons of helpers to get those colors mixed super fast. * Highly reactive: we followed the manufacturers instructions to a T. Or so we thought. They didn't have the youtube vid up for the first pour, about slowly hand mixing the product at the time, so we used a drill paddle. Bad. BadbadbadbadBAD. Don't do that. Use a stir stick and go S.L.O.W. And when they say, no more than 1/2 gallon at a time. They mean, don't even approach a 1/2 gallon at once. On attempt #2 when we switched to 1Litre mixes, it worked brilliantly. Use the metric system for large pours and have a helper who solely mixes product. Otherwise overheating and flash curing is a very real risk. Very easy to trigger with this eppxy. * Other brand's Dispersion fluids do work with product for mixing colors. Thank God, too! Or our project would be a total bust. Of course, use the absolute least amount necessary (>5% volume) but at 3% it was fine. Yay! * Self leveling can be tricky with colors. Expect to do some flood coats for large surfaces. Small areas are no problem (5sq ft easy, but 20sq ft, not so much) I think the 2nd flood coat should be perfectly level. Fingers crossed anyway. So plan for your project to gain thickness if it needs to fit in a prescribed space * Oh, and the working time is short. So move move move when you start mixing. Have your colors already measured and ready to go as soon as the 2 parts meet. Have a plan and do not take your time at any point if you are doing colors. And get some assistants. 2 people with so much real estate was a bad idea. Get some helpers and you should be fine. * Also, this product absolutely refuses to spread nicely over my edges. We had to fill in bare spots by hand with a cheap paint brush. Nightmare moment. If you tape dam, you must pull the dam quickly. Like, 30min - no more than 1 hour and be diligent about breaking surface tension. Also, I highly recommend mixing enough for your edges first, spread with your gloved hands to get 100% edge coverage, then do the top pour. Learned that the hard way too. After all that, we are sticking with Superclear for this project because 'the devil you know'and also, it really does cure beautifully. Perfect hardness throughout. Few bubbles (after the paddle fiasco was corrected). High gloss finish, easy sanding, fast cure, forgiving on thickness (up to 1/4" per pour) and allegedly high durability (remains to be seen for us) makes this a great product. Just so happened that Superclear Tabletop was not the right product for our project, but the price tag is decent and now for the final flood coat it seems risky to switch resins, so hopefully the last will give us the perfect levelness we need. 🤞 In summary, if you have a large project where you want to add lots of micas and dye, this is going to be tough with this product. Not impossible, but tricky. Consider their new 2:1 'countertop' (yes I am grumpy it came out just a few weeks after we were committed to 'tabletop') epoxy. I haven't tried it, but I suspect they addressed some of the more challenging traits of tabletop epoxy with it. Tabletop is phenomenal for floodcoats. Or basically clear pours without additives or for small surfaces, but the greater the surface you need to cover, the more challenging it will be with this reactive epoxy.