jsolie
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So I thought I'd try a little bit of casting and see how it goes. I'd never done any casting of any kind before, so I'm glad that this site has a good library and that there are some very informative videos on YouTube.
So my wife and I went to Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago. She had a 40% off coupon, which we used on the resin. They didn't have the largest selection of pigments, so I got some lavender, pearl and a small bit of fine silver glitter (Note to self: glitter gets everywhere even when you are careful).
For the molds, I used some old schedule 40 PVC pipe. I didn't have any corks, but I did have some duct tape. This made a dandy cover for one end of the PVC. The resin was poured into some 3 oz. cups, pigment, glitter and MEKP added. I was able to fill two and a half tubes.
I knocked out the blank the next day using a dowel rod, and turned this pen a few days later (wanting to give that resin plenty of time to do it's thing).
It may not look like it with the cell phone shots, but this is a chrome cigar pen with the lavender/pearl/glitter blank. Finished with MM and Hut's Ultra Gloss. The depth in this pen is incredible...you can stare into it, move it slightly and it just shimmers from a different level.
I've since done a little bit more casting, which has turned out pretty well. I'm continually amazed at where the wood turning rabbit hole can lead you.
So my wife and I went to Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago. She had a 40% off coupon, which we used on the resin. They didn't have the largest selection of pigments, so I got some lavender, pearl and a small bit of fine silver glitter (Note to self: glitter gets everywhere even when you are careful).
For the molds, I used some old schedule 40 PVC pipe. I didn't have any corks, but I did have some duct tape. This made a dandy cover for one end of the PVC. The resin was poured into some 3 oz. cups, pigment, glitter and MEKP added. I was able to fill two and a half tubes.
I knocked out the blank the next day using a dowel rod, and turned this pen a few days later (wanting to give that resin plenty of time to do it's thing).
It may not look like it with the cell phone shots, but this is a chrome cigar pen with the lavender/pearl/glitter blank. Finished with MM and Hut's Ultra Gloss. The depth in this pen is incredible...you can stare into it, move it slightly and it just shimmers from a different level.
I've since done a little bit more casting, which has turned out pretty well. I'm continually amazed at where the wood turning rabbit hole can lead you.
