TotalBoat200g UV Cure Clear Acrylic Resin Kit with UV Flashlight for DIY Jewelry Making, Crafts, and Protective Coatings

Great finish coat on fishing lures. I use two light coats and cure for 20 minutes after each coat. It holds up well to hook rash but it will eventually wear through. I would highly recommend this product.

as expected

The only beef I have about this resin, is the cost. But you get what you pay for. I absolutely love this resin. It works awesome, cures quickly with UV, is nice and clear (even after curing), and I haven’t noticed any yellowing (as of yet). Its odor is minimal, clear, bonds wells, with minimal bubbles and warping. It does bubble if you pour too thick, so make sure not to pour anything thicker than 1mm. If you need to go thicker, cure in layers for best results. The UV resin cures well, cures hard but slightly flexible, but slightly brittle and will snap easily. It will also chip off surfaces, so ensure you prepare the surface of anything you’re wanting it to adhere to.Another problem I have with this product is that the UV light it comes with is garbage. Mine quit working within the first 24 hours. I didn’t even make it through half the bottle of resin. The UV LED bulbs of the light just slowly became dim and wouldn’t be as bright. Eventually, it got to the point where it wouldn’t even cure the resin anymore. I tried many troubleshooting steps to try and fix the light, including replacing the batteries, and even the battery carrier (the black insert that the batteries go into, in order to fit inside the light and hit the electrical contacts of the light), and finally I attached the contacts of the light directly to a DC power supply. However, nothing I did would bring life back to the light and cure the the resin. So I did end up buying a $40 Rechargeable UV Curing Flashlight on Amazon. I do wish TotalBoat would make this resin available without the flashlight, as I’d like to buy more, but I don’t need their cheap-crappy light.This is partly why I mentioned starting with a different, cheaper resin. So you can iron out these mistakes, without wasting such expensive resin.I compared this resin to: Osbang UV Cure Resin (Found on Amazon)In finality: I would not recommend this product to someone starting out with UV resin projects, because of the cost. There are cheaper UV resins out there that are fairly cheap, but not quite as good. Use those while you are starting out. You don’t need this expensive, quality UV resin to make mistakes, and learn from them.I do recommend this product to anyone needing a quick curing resin, or someone who’s used to working with resin or resin crafting. I would recommend this to glue two things together, but ONLY if you’re using this as a secondary source of attachment (Meaning, glue the two things together using something like Gorilla glue, and using the UV resin to hold them together while the glue cures).

The media could not be loaded. A lot of the negative reviews reviews are because of the cheap flashlight that come with it. Totalboat should not have included it. This is great product, I use use on wood projects and fishing rod making. With the right flashlight (uv beast 385nm) It dries hard as a rock and is very scratch resistant.It is thick and you will want a mini heat gun to warm it it up so it will self level and get the bubbles out.

Basically ruined 8 of my fishing lures with this stuff. It is too thick for one. The finish cured uneven and wavy. Room temp was 71 degrees about 30 percent humidity. Lures were coated with a coat of UVs, dried for several days before epoxy, and turned while they cured. I wound up with an uneven wavy mess of a finish. Worse than any two part epoxies I have used. The cured part seems more rubbery than an actual hard protective coating. Maybe you will have better luck but I just wasted several hours and money using this on lures.

I use various epoxies and super glues for my fly tying. Total Boat is a medium-viscosity, value-for-money UV resin that cures reasonably quickly under a black light.However, once I started using it, every place it contacted my skin resulted in a mild rash that itched for 2+ days and took a week or more to completely clear up. My other brands of UV resin (e.g. Solarez) don't have this effect. When I use Total Boat, I now wear latex gloves and that prevents the rashes.

You might as well throw the included flashlight directly into the garbage. It feels cheaply made and I never got it to work. I used a different, larger light that I bought separately.The resin itself is great! I've used to for a year and, so far, doesn't seem like it might be prone to yellowing. I make doll eyes, and the resin has held up to dropping and being handled.Bubbles are easy to remove with a tooth pick. For my needs, I put the resin in a smaller container and use a tool to apply. It's easier to use this way. This helps a lot to eliminate bubbles entirely. Pouring directly from bottle always created bubbles. Putting some in a container (with a lid) and leaving it to sit will allow them to rise to the top and disappear. You can also use a heat gun, but this will make the resin runnier until it cools.In my photo, this resin was used to dome the eye, coat it, and also to add mica to the pupil (which was a ball I covered in resin, rolled in mica, then cured). You can see it's very clear and doesn't have yellow tone at all.I've tried several brands and a variety of prices, and this one is still my favorite.

Works good.