I like it. I think I would like it even more, if the lid was the color of the resin in the body and not so "glow". But it's a very nice piece regardless.
I'm thinking the same thing.
But on the brighter side, you won't have a problem finding that lid! Did you use a filler during the casting to reduce the amount of resin? Did you use a pressure pot too?
Scott (still an A++) B
Hi Scott & Chris
I'm not letting my good friend Bob get a "flogging" on this one, as any of the faults mentioned about his/this piece, ,are my doing and responsibility, as I was the one to created this blank and many others he has from the same wood, the Termite carved Platypus gum, shown here on one of my threads, so time ago.
Where I run into troubles was the nasty cracking that I had on some I made before, from a single pour. The carved wood had very large picks and deep valley's, I wanted to use the whole height of the picks and fill it to allow a little extra resin at the top but, 4" square mold is quite a big mold to pour more than a certain quantity/amount of PR/Polyester resin that produces an enormous amount of heat when setting, forcing it to crack...!
What I done here was to make a 2 pour to void that heat problem, but where the 2 mistakes were made was first, I used the wrong colour Pearlex powder on the second pour, which could have been prevented if I had mixed enough quantity of resin to reach the final height I wanted but, separate the resin in 2 containers and then put the catalyst on one and leave the other un-catalyzed for later. The second mistake was that, I left if in the pressure pot for too long and the top surface dried off, instead of staying "guey"/sticky, preventing the almost straight line in between layers...!
The blanks were made for jewellery boxes and I tried to make them as high as possible however, the second layer could have been cut off and not used, making it quite lower but, that is always an individual choice, Bob decided to use it, as I would also but, after seeing it now, and seeing how much the colour difference is (worse than before turned...!), I would have preferred to have it cut off and discarded or used for something else...!
Now, we are talking about personal choices here, and work that is done with the best of intentions but that, endup slightly different than planned. Bob's workmanship is perfect, he worked on something that was not his doing so, he could have decided to not use that 2th layer but he did so, I'm sorry mate, for any "slack" you get as a result, you are not at fault, I am...!
PS: These are not easy to turn, I reckon you done a heck of a job with it Bob, the colour difference it make it just "different", that's all...!:wink:
PS-2: Hey Bob, what about I make a new lid for it with some of the same wood and the colour of the bottom part...??? that would be easy enough for me to do, you would have to cut it down a little to remove the different green on the base lip and then turn a new lit for it, that way, everyone would be happy, huh...???
Cheers
George
