workinforwood
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I was just foolin around playing with some new idea's I had.
1st two is graduation, hat and diploma. Normally the tassel off the hat would be black, but because it's all hand scrolled acrylic, if I had a black tassel and black hat it would blend together over the top of the hat loosing it's semi-3d design effect. Also, the graduation black to the right is the way they were all supposed to be but I had an oopsy and that is how the first one on the left came to be. I had two cups of white and a small cup of black. Well I poured one cup of white over the mold and left the other two cups on the counter to heat up. If you let the resin heat up more, then the colors don't sink so much and maintain separation..so the idea was to just let them heat up then finish the pour...well I was over at the bench drawing hot peppers and forgot about the pour!!! I ran back over and the two cups on the counter were completely gelled up, so I quickly just tossed the lid on the pot and cranked it up. Then after it was done, I ran it through the drum sander bringing it back to the thickness of the scrollwork and then cut out the broken line design like a window and repoured it in black and gold. That's a save that looks like it was meant to be that way.
On the right is hot peppers with a twist. I scrolled out a hot pepper with stem, then the idea was to mix up a large cup of white and a small cup of crushed red peppers with just a hint of red pearlex only. The idea was to have swirling hot pepper seeds, rather than a blank of just hot peppers. It did not quite work out as I planned. As you can see far to the right, I did not wait long enough for the white to get gelled enough to hold the pepper mix from settling. There is still some random peppers in the rest of the blank, and nice red swirls, but most of the peppers settled to the bottom where they will mostly be spun off. I just did a new pour in the pot though and am very confident the next batch will be right. I let that white cup get so hot it was steaming and poured out like old wood glue..so I feel better about the next batch meeting my goal. I'm also working on a new style of coffee blanks..a totally different twist, similar to this idea, where you will get a steaming cup of coffee, and the rest of the blank will be white with ground coffee swirls in it. I think not only will that be way different, but I also think they will be way easier to spin than the traditional bean blanks that people often have trouble turning.
1st two is graduation, hat and diploma. Normally the tassel off the hat would be black, but because it's all hand scrolled acrylic, if I had a black tassel and black hat it would blend together over the top of the hat loosing it's semi-3d design effect. Also, the graduation black to the right is the way they were all supposed to be but I had an oopsy and that is how the first one on the left came to be. I had two cups of white and a small cup of black. Well I poured one cup of white over the mold and left the other two cups on the counter to heat up. If you let the resin heat up more, then the colors don't sink so much and maintain separation..so the idea was to just let them heat up then finish the pour...well I was over at the bench drawing hot peppers and forgot about the pour!!! I ran back over and the two cups on the counter were completely gelled up, so I quickly just tossed the lid on the pot and cranked it up. Then after it was done, I ran it through the drum sander bringing it back to the thickness of the scrollwork and then cut out the broken line design like a window and repoured it in black and gold. That's a save that looks like it was meant to be that way.
On the right is hot peppers with a twist. I scrolled out a hot pepper with stem, then the idea was to mix up a large cup of white and a small cup of crushed red peppers with just a hint of red pearlex only. The idea was to have swirling hot pepper seeds, rather than a blank of just hot peppers. It did not quite work out as I planned. As you can see far to the right, I did not wait long enough for the white to get gelled enough to hold the pepper mix from settling. There is still some random peppers in the rest of the blank, and nice red swirls, but most of the peppers settled to the bottom where they will mostly be spun off. I just did a new pour in the pot though and am very confident the next batch will be right. I let that white cup get so hot it was steaming and poured out like old wood glue..so I feel better about the next batch meeting my goal. I'm also working on a new style of coffee blanks..a totally different twist, similar to this idea, where you will get a steaming cup of coffee, and the rest of the blank will be white with ground coffee swirls in it. I think not only will that be way different, but I also think they will be way easier to spin than the traditional bean blanks that people often have trouble turning.
