Decent color separation - No idea about the pattern

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Finally brave enough to let the temps get in the 115-120F range before pouring. Alumilite clear slow and a couple mica powders, poured in a Ptown Subbie 12 blank mold. Was a bit chaotic of a pour, tried two handed pours from solo cups and missed a fair amount.

I have the Jake Blanks FunFunnel and there are a couple multi-compartment prints on thingiverse and the like that I'm thinking of trying.

I really like the color separation, no idea what it's going to look like turned.

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These look awesome - I want to see them turned! Did you use anything to stir them? Typically, I think you can pour vertical pours at earlier temps (100-110) because there's less chance of color mixing and the pour takes longer. Would make your pour less chaotic. If you watch Zac Higgins recent stuff (2/3 years), he talks about this.
 
dschem said:
These look awesome - I want to see them turned! Did you use anything to stir them? Typically, I think you can pour vertical pours at earlier temps (100-110) because there's less chance of color mixing and the pour takes longer. Would make your pour less chaotic. If you watch Zac Higgins recent stuff (2/3 years), he talks about this.
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Thanks!

I just watched one of Zac's videos using the fun funnel. But I have watched some of his livestream recordings. In two or three of them I used a wooden coffee stirrer to swirl up (had to insert it first). I need to take better notes, I'm not sure which ones I stirred.

I can't wait to see them turned myself :)
 
I have been using a coat hanger with a loop on the end - I cut a length of coat hanger about 2 inches longer than the casting tube. I bend a loop into one end and insert that end into the tube. I then pour, alternating colors or whatever, and then I pull out the coat hanger while gently twisting & turning it. It helps to mix the colors. Before I used a coat hanger, i had layers of colors with minimal mixing between them.
 
KMCloonan said:
I have been using a coat hanger with a loop on the end - I cut a length of coat hanger about 2 inches longer than the casting tube. I bend a loop into one end and insert that end into the tube. I then pour, alternating colors or whatever, and then I pull out the coat hanger while gently twisting & turning it. It helps to mix the colors. Before I used a coat hanger, i had layers of colors with minimal mixing between them.
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Thanks! I watched an old youtube video of a guy doing vertical casting in PVC pipes and he used, what might have been a coat hanger, but it had a series of bends, almost like a sine wave. I think he spiraled it out similar to what you're describing.

I'll have to go find some old hangers...
 
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