robutacion
Member
Hi peoples,
I purchase a pendant maker jig some time ago (couple of years, I reckon) and I never felt the urge to make pendants, even tough I have made lots of pendants blanks, either wood or resin solid or mixed with other stuff.
A few weeks ago, and while making my last batch of the Palm root blanks, my last pour was a green colour one and I over mixed the resin amounts, leaving me a bit that was just too much to throw away so, and being in this situation before, I like to have handy some of those take away souse containers that are great as they don't stick to the PR, and can make some interesting discs that you can either use singly or use for various left over pours, giving you a combination of colours...!
Is this case, and after pouring the left over resin, I had about 1/2" of thickness in that 2" round container that I put a side for some time.
A couple of days ago, I was down in the work-shop/she, late in the evening and in my pyjamas, just looking around as I often do when I spotted that container with that left over green resin and some how, I got itchy to do something with it and a pendant was a obvious choice so, I got that unused pendant maker tool/chuck, some 2 side tape and I was on my way...!
I did not have any design or pattern in mind, I simply started buy turning a face round and smooth, then create a couple of undulations, change the plate settings for off-centre cutting and using the partition tool mainly, I made a couple of cuts and stopped the lathe to see what I had. I was not the least worried about the possibility of destroying this piece of resin or do something very "fugly"
:wink:
I did liked what I seen so I sanded and polish it. Didn't know what to use as a string so I though of a pack of glass strings (12) that I got to keep from loosing my glass all the time, they were cheap and nasty so not that strong but, do the job.
Got one of them and them though on what to use to attach the 2 together (pendant and string) and that's when I though of a O'ring...:biggrin:
Got inside the house an hour later or so, with the wife having no idea what I was up to so, I got around her, seated on the couch and put the pendant around her neck and said "Happy birthday, Mum" as I call her...!:biggrin:
She loved it and next day, while in town doing some shopping, I spotted her showing this pendant to some people she knew, that was nice to see...!
I like to know that I can still get a few ":biggrin::winkoints" every so often...!
What do you're reckon...???
Cheers
George
I purchase a pendant maker jig some time ago (couple of years, I reckon) and I never felt the urge to make pendants, even tough I have made lots of pendants blanks, either wood or resin solid or mixed with other stuff.
A few weeks ago, and while making my last batch of the Palm root blanks, my last pour was a green colour one and I over mixed the resin amounts, leaving me a bit that was just too much to throw away so, and being in this situation before, I like to have handy some of those take away souse containers that are great as they don't stick to the PR, and can make some interesting discs that you can either use singly or use for various left over pours, giving you a combination of colours...!
Is this case, and after pouring the left over resin, I had about 1/2" of thickness in that 2" round container that I put a side for some time.
A couple of days ago, I was down in the work-shop/she, late in the evening and in my pyjamas, just looking around as I often do when I spotted that container with that left over green resin and some how, I got itchy to do something with it and a pendant was a obvious choice so, I got that unused pendant maker tool/chuck, some 2 side tape and I was on my way...!
I did not have any design or pattern in mind, I simply started buy turning a face round and smooth, then create a couple of undulations, change the plate settings for off-centre cutting and using the partition tool mainly, I made a couple of cuts and stopped the lathe to see what I had. I was not the least worried about the possibility of destroying this piece of resin or do something very "fugly"
:wink:I did liked what I seen so I sanded and polish it. Didn't know what to use as a string so I though of a pack of glass strings (12) that I got to keep from loosing my glass all the time, they were cheap and nasty so not that strong but, do the job.
Got one of them and them though on what to use to attach the 2 together (pendant and string) and that's when I though of a O'ring...:biggrin:
Got inside the house an hour later or so, with the wife having no idea what I was up to so, I got around her, seated on the couch and put the pendant around her neck and said "Happy birthday, Mum" as I call her...!:biggrin:
She loved it and next day, while in town doing some shopping, I spotted her showing this pendant to some people she knew, that was nice to see...!
I like to know that I can still get a few ":biggrin::wink
oints" every so often...!What do you're reckon...???
Cheers
George
