Epoxy Bottle Cap Coasters

Make bottle cap coasters.

Epoxy bottle cap coasters.

Get a few bottle caps off your guy s favorite adult beverage add some resin and you have an instant favorite gift. Bottle cap coasters are sturdy and are perfect for protecting your wooden furniture from heat and stains. Bottle cap coasters are the perfect man cave gift. You can purchase ready made non drip wooden coasters that have a rim around the edge.

You can use live edge. Easycast clear casting epoxy is a two component low odor solvent free clear casting epoxy. They are inexpensive and a great recycling project to put your old discarded bottle caps in use. Although this epoxy sets up clear you can add color dyes to it to create a transparent or opaque appearance.

The project consists of using an epoxy resin mixture to seal in whatever objects you would like to be displayed on your coaster such as bottle caps golf tees an american flag or whatever objects you choose. Let these set for about 10 20 minutes before moving on to the next step. After you have all the bottle caps glued down make sure you allow the glue to dry for at least 24 hours. I found it easiest to place the center cap first then the other caps around it.

Round beverage coaster mold 431. If a part of a cap sticks off the edge just take pliers and carefully push in the. You can easily create different colors and effects. Use it to encase or embed items to create jewelry figurines paperweights coasters drawer pulls and more.

This is similar to the river tables just on a much smaller scale. Approximately 1 oz of resin was enough to fill nine bottle caps. A touch of tay. Originally published may 2013.

Resin obsession super clear epoxy resin 6 ounce kit. It is easy to use and ideal for casting small decorative items and jewelry in molds. The next step is to pour the epoxy evenly over the beer bottle caps. To prep the bottle caps i turned them over and filled them all with resin.

Begin placing caps on coasters. By doing this you ensure that you won t get your bottle caps floating to the top of the coasters. The resin can be poured onto the coaster without dripping over the sides.