snakes

[its_virgil]

After the Christmas rush I am a bit tired of making pens so I switched to making a few snake blanks to catch up on those orders(that were not needed for Christmas). The bottom two on the left are diamondbacks and the rest are prairie rattle snakes. Twelve total sierra blanks. I know, there are only 8 in the picture, the other four are in the oven and ready for the oven when the picture was made.

Painted the tubes on Wed evening, glued the skins on Thurs evening and did the casting sat afternoon. 12 blanks in 3 hours using two molds. One mold with blanks in the oven and one mold getting ready for the oven. No pressure...no vacuum... just ultrasonics with heat and a toaster oven. I will never go back to using the pressure pot. It is so much more fun now!!

Do a good turn daily!
Don

 

[theartist07]

are these for sell, if so what's the price?

jim

 

[its_virgil]

These particular ones are sold. I only make them when I have orders to fill. PM me if interested.
Do a good turn daily!
Don

quote=theartist07;1334063]are these for sell, if so what's the price?

jim[/quote]

 

[gebx]

ultrasonics

What are you talking about when yo said the ultrasonics, heat and a toaster oven. Can you tell us more?

 

[Craftdiggity]

What are you talking about when yo said the ultrasonics, heat and a toaster oven. Can you tell us more?

Ultrasonic cleaner with heat function to warm the resin, toaster oven to warm the molds and cure the blanks.

 

[its_virgil]

Ultrasonics: an ultrasonic jewelery cleaner with a heat function available from various sources. I got mine from Harbor Freight.

Toaster oven: A standard toaster oven with a thermostat that goes down to at least 150 or lower. I must post a warning that polyester resin fumes can ignight and have for a couple of members. I do not leave mine alone when I'm curing them. I stay and keep an eye on it.

Take a look at http://content.penturners.org/library/techniques/casting_bubble_free.pdf
and http://content.penturners.org/library/pen_blanks/casting_pen_blanks.pdf

I was not using the toaster oven when I did these two articles. There has been a lot of discussion on ultrasonics and toaster ovens. Searching the casting forum will dig up a lot of information.

Do a good turn daily!
don'

What are you talking about when yo said the ultrasonics, heat and a toaster oven. Can you tell us more?