I believe you often see many friends' tables with glossy surface in the market, especially for epoxy tables, which are full of artistic style furniture. Glossy surface treatment almost monopolizes the entire market. In this blog, you will find the answer.
What is a glossy finish
The so-called glossy finish is a processing method that makes the wood surface mirror-smooth and highly reflective through fine grinding and painting processes. It is often used in high-end furniture, display stands or modern style wood products.
The specific process is as follows:
Flattening: Make sure the epoxy tabletop is absolutely flat by planing or sanding, without bumps or burrs.
Pore filling (for open-grained wood such as oak): Use sawdust + glue or special wood hole filler to fill the wood ducts. After drying, sand until smooth (240-320 grit sandpaper).
Multi-layer primer spraying and sanding.
Topcoat spraying and polishing.
Three repeated polishing and mirror finishing.
Artistic effect of glossy epoxy table:
Glossy treatment makes the flowing texture of transparent or colored epoxy resin more three-dimensional, especially the combination of resin and wood in the River Table, which can produce a "solidified waterfall"-like transparency after polishing. After polishing to a mirror surface, the light refracts multiple times inside the resin layer, enhancing the visual depth.
The following are the effects of several epoxy tables treated with glossy surfaces:
Colored mixed epoxy table or natural elements (dried flowers, shells) are more vivid and saturated under the glossy surface.
In a dark light environment, the glossy epoxy table with embedded LED light strips will produce glare diffusion due to total reflection.
The glossy epoxy table feels smooth like glass, but visually retains the soft curves of the resin.
Epoxy tables with glossy finish have better practicality:
The glossy surface is dense and smooth, and liquids (coffee, oil stains) are difficult to penetrate. It can be cleaned with a wipe and can be directly disinfected with alcohol wipes.
Minor scratches on the glossy surface can be quickly repaired with polishing paste
High reflective properties can improve the utilization rate of indoor light (especially suitable for rooms with poor lighting).
Compared with the separation process, the epoxy table with full glossy finish wraps the entire table, which can increase the service life of the epoxy resin table, is not easy to deform, and is more durable.
The glossy surface completely seals the resin pores to prevent mildew caused by moisture penetration, which is something that matte-finished epoxy tables cannot do.
Whether from the perspective of artistic effect or practicality, a fully glossy epoxy resin table is a good choice. This is why most users who buy epoxy resin tables prefer fully glossy tabletop treatments over the other two tabletop treatments.
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