Hi guys,
This may sound like a dumb question, but I going to ask it any way.
I like the colours acrylics give a pen, however, the smell is sooo bad! After just one blank, I feel like I need to vomit! Because of this, I have had to sick to woods or trustone products...I have found that some brands smell worse then others when working on. Therefore, is there an acrylic that does not smell so bad when being cut into?
I cannot help to think there are toxins going into my body doing God knows what!
Any thoughts?
Acrylics can make a lot of people sick, even when fully cured. The worse part of the smell strength is is the first 30 days after it was poured. Old blanks never small as bad as the fresh ones.
It is a big difference is between not liking the smells, another is to be affected by its toxicity. If is only the smell you want to control when you're working with them, you will find that a common dust mask, sprayed or sprinkled with some of the perfumes of your liking, will disguise the acrylic smell while you are working.
If the smell is affecting you physically, you have 2 choices, you either stick to wood or you will have to use a good ventilation system in you work-shop and ware a proper chemical mask while turning the stuff.
There is also a factor that you have to remember, if you never been exposed to the acrylics, you will feel the smell a lot stronger than if you have had contact with it, in fact, the more you work with it, the less you can smell it. While this can look a good thing, the reality is not, if over exposer is taken place, it will become a slow/silent killer.
We all have a different immune system and therefore, reacting differently to the exposure of chemicals and other harmful stuff. There is no need to panic but, you are the only one that can know and decided what is the best for you. However, there is not much you can smell in our days that will not kill you sooner or later, the air we breath has enough elements that are sufficient to kill a human, some of us are more "resilient" than others, otherwise how could you explain a person to be known to die of lung cancer, without ever smoke or being ever in a dusty working or else, environment. On the other hand, you stop a person that have been smoking heavily for 50 or 60 years, and that person will be dead within months, while it could live a very long life if left be...!
In resume, your question is not a dumb one, the problem is that the answer is not that simple...!
Good luck
Cheers
George
