Hybrid mini cone boxes

[George Watkins]

Hello folks

here are three new boxes

I cast the blanks last week and have turned these in my spare time over the past few days

the boxes are all around 60mm wide by 85mm tall

 

[skiprat]

Absolutely beautiful !! I'm really a very big fan of the little boxes you make. :biggrin:
But why are they called boxes and not jars. Does a jar have to have a screw lid perhaps?

 

[alamocdc]

Stephen, some folks do call them jars. But wood workers don't make jars, we make boxes (even if they are made round by us spinny guys).

Beautiful work, George!

 

[D.Oliver]

Those lids are awesome! It looks like prehistoric fossils of little bugs.

 

[firewhatfire]

Truly Inspires me to get my casting pot working properly. Those are outstanding.

Phil

 

[ericofpendom]

Outstanding as usual George!

Just one little question if I may George, do you have any issues when sanding larger areas of polyester? I tried a disc of about 50mm dia a while ago to try and make a pendent from a bit of resin left over in the bottom of the mixing cup but when I was sanding it the dust was getting clogged between the piece and the abrasive and doing more damage than good. How do you achieve such a beautiful finish on your boxes?

Regards

Eric...

 

[Wingdoctor]

I believe a box is intended to hold dry materials and a jar holds liquid.

 

[Charlie_W]

Wow! Those are Super!

Did anyone say: Mouse Urn?

 

[alamocdc]

Outstanding as usual George!

Just one little question if I may George, do you have any issues when sanding larger areas of polyester? I tried a disc of about 50mm dia a while ago to try and make a pendent from a bit of resin left over in the bottom of the mixing cup but when I was sanding it the dust was getting clogged between the piece and the abrasive and doing more damage than good. How do you achieve such a beautiful finish on your boxes?

Regards

Eric...

I'm not George, Eric, but it sounds to me like you are dry sanding. I NEVER dry sand any synthetic. Once you start wet sanding, those issues will disappear.

 

[nava1uni]

I find that wet sanding works best on all polyresin, alumilite, stabilized wood. I even wet sand some exotic wood that is oily. It raises the grain on the wood, but if I let it dry then the next sanding makes it real smooth.

Your jars are very beautiful. Everything that you do is amazing to me.

 

[George Watkins]

Thank you for all of your kind comments

Eric- For pure resin wet sanding works fine but I don't recommend you wet sand any resin which has wood/cones etc embedded within it.

I dry sand using abranet to 600 then buff using 3 different mops and compounds.

 

[ericofpendom]

Outstanding as usual George!

Just one little question if I may George, do you have any issues when sanding larger areas of polyester? I tried a disc of about 50mm dia a while ago to try and make a pendent from a bit of resin left over in the bottom of the mixing cup but when I was sanding it the dust was getting clogged between the piece and the abrasive and doing more damage than good. How do you achieve such a beautiful finish on your boxes?

Regards

Eric...

I'm not George, Eric, but it sounds to me like you are dry sanding. I NEVER dry sand any synthetic. Once you start wet sanding, those issues will disappear.

Cheers Billy, I had later though about wet sanding as I do wet sand when I remember on my resin pens.

Eric...

 

[ericofpendom]

Thank you for all of your kind comments

Eric- For pure resin wet sanding works fine but I don't recommend you wet sand any resin which has wood/cones etc embedded within it.

I dry sand using abranet to 600 then buff using 3 different mops and compounds.

Thanks George.

Eric...

 

[PaulDoug]

Call it a box or a jar, I call it beautiful. One I'd bring out at Christmas time.

 

[SDB777]

Thank you for all of your kind comments

Eric- For pure resin wet sanding works fine but I don't recommend you wet sand any resin which has wood/cones etc embedded within it.

I dry sand using abranet to 600 then buff using 3 different mops and compounds.

That is what I did wrong....I wet sanded a cone I just did. Even with thinCA into the 'petals' of the cone, I had this un-removeable wet-sanding powder inbedded around the the exposed part of the cone material. Wish I had seen this two days ago.....

I know what abranet is, but I'm lost as to what a 'mop' is....and by compound, are you refering to polishing compound?




Your cool boxes here gave me the bump I needed to make a few castings myself. Thank you!!!!







Scott (lovin' the silver in that one) B

 

[wizard]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! When I look into the material..it is mesmerizing...

 

[George Watkins]

thank you for all of your comments

Scott: yes loose leaf mops and compounds like the beall system but cheaper and more suited to resin!!

 

[Bob Wemm]

YOU"RE THE MAN!!!!!!!
Those are absolutely exquisite, (I had to look that up), well done.
______________
Bob.

 

[Fishinbo]

Absolutely shining through !!! I love what you do.

 

[cnirenberg]

Love those boxes George.

 

[TerryDowning]

I'm lost as to what a 'mop' is....and by compound, are you refering to polishing compound?


Scott (lovin' the silver in that one) B

I believe "Mop" refers to a buffing wheel and "compound" is buffing compound.

I use three also

Brown to remove sanding scratches
White to remove scratches left from the brown
Blue to remove scratches from the white and polish.

 

[George Watkins]

Thank you for all of your kind comments

I use 3 types of mop(buffing wheel) and 3 types of compounds to buff my work- they are all the mezerna brand and are:
stage 1-113gzp compound with B quality loose leaf mop
stage 2-glosswax 16 compound with g quality mop
stage 3-Atol 6 compound with WDR quality mop

 

[rizaydog]

Awesome!!! Thats so cool.

 

[Rob73]

Wow. Those look very nice. Blank is great.

 

[Robert111]

Just totally beautiful! Art objects, for sure. Wonderful!

 

[George Watkins]

thank you for your comments

 

[johncrane]

Luv your work George!