JimGo
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I tried my first casting this weekend. I "painted" the brass tubes black with a Sharpie, then glued some stingray skin to the tubes using carpenter's glue. The glue seemed to hold just fine, so I thought I'd try casting them. Mixed up som Castin' Resin, slid the blanks onto a 1/4" dowell, and put the whole thing in a metal tube to cure. I let everything sit for over a day, and when I pulled it out of the tube, it was still wet, but semi-solid. I let that dry in the sun the rest of the day, and it was great by the end of the day today. Cut the whole thing in half (to separate the two tubes), drilled out the dowels, used a barrel trimmer, and everything went GREAT. I was really excited, since this was my first time. I threw it on the lathe and started turning everything down. The blanks seemed to get pretty hot, though I got some great shavings off of it. Then, as I got down close to the size of a SL bushing, the casting resin broke off, leaving just the skin. To make matters worse, the glue also apparently got hot enough that the skin pulled off the tube.
Any ideas what might have gone wrong?
Any ideas what might have gone wrong?