Woodworking with Resin: Tips, Techniques, and Projects

Learn how to use epoxy resin in your scroll saw and woodturning projects!

Beginner's guide to using resin teaches you step by step how to incorporate resin in your wood projects
13 step-by-step projects that range in skill level and slowly progress in difficulty, including holiday ornaments, a pinecone pen, colored pencil bowl, cutting board, and more
Helpful overviews on getting started with resin, measuring, mixing, and pouring resin, equipment, supplies, safety, and more
Troubleshooting tips, applying resin as a finish, using additives and colorants, and casting mixed media
Additional patterns in the back of the book so you can apply everything you learn to even more fun wood and resin projects
Author Clayton Meyers offers a fresh and modern style to compound and fretwork designs while still maintaining a classic flair that will appeal to traditional scrollers
A complete guide to teach beginner to intermediate woodworkers everything you need to know to work with resin!

This skill-building book offers more than 30 patterns and 13 step-by-step projects for your scroll saw, lathe, table saw, or band saw that all incorporate resin elements and progress in difficulty. You'll find detailed instructions with coordinating photography for every project, plus complete lists for required tools and materials.

Projects include:

Holiday Ornaments
Compound Cut Gemstone
Rose Keepsake
Citrus Glass Charms
Compound Cut Candle Ornament
Festive Pine Cone Ornament
Pine Cone Pen
Ocean Plaque
Butterflies
Ocean Bangle
Colored Pencil Bowl
Filled Photo Plaque
Cutting Board with Epoxy Inlay
Opening with insightful sections on resin basics, mixing and pouring resin, shop requirements, equipment and consumables, workshop safety, and so much more, you'll be fully equipped with all the essential knowledge and skills you need before you begin the project. Then, in the back of the book, you'll find additional patterns that can be completed similarly to the step-by-step projects, for additional holiday ornaments, geometric gems, compound cut butterflies, and autumn leaves.

Author Clayton Meyers offers a fresh and modern style to compound and fretwork designs while still maintaining a classic flair that will appeal to traditional scrollers. Clayton has been woodworking for three decades and is a regular contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine.

From fretwork holiday ornaments to compound scroll work with colored resin, Woodworking with Resin offers a treasure trove of inspiration and skill-building projects to take your woodworking technique to the next level — all while you learn how to work with resin!

"Woodworking with Resin is a very thorough book that gives an extensive overview of what you need to get started and details on how to be successful with resin and wood, followed by some beautiful projects and patterns. I look forward to using some of what is in the book on my future scroll saw projects."
—Wayne Fowler, Author of Ultimate Book of Scroll Saw Patterns