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Title: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: Lazurus on February 26, 2018, 07:53:15 AM

Well this is my first attempt at casting resin combined with a piece of mallee burl, sorry the pictures are not the best. I am going to make a suitable plinth with a light source, lots to learn but the start of something new.

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: Les Symonds on February 26, 2018, 07:58:41 AM

An excellent start to a new direction. Of all your images, it's the top one that works best for me, especially if I turn my laptop through 180degrees, which makes it look like a mountain sunrise.
Les

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: Tony_a on February 26, 2018, 09:39:45 PM

That's turned out really well and not a bubble in sight. Used a pressure pot I presume?
Looking forward to more.

Tony

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: edbanger on February 27, 2018, 06:14:53 AM

Looking good Stuart  :)

All the best

Ed

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: georg on February 28, 2018, 11:36:05 AM

      Very well done for a first attempt ....Blends very well
       Regards Tony d

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: Lazurus on February 28, 2018, 11:57:51 AM

More by luck than judgment, I wasn't expecting much of a result with the casting to be honest, when I took it out of the pressure pot I was pleasantly surprised by both the clarity and lack of bubbles and the coloring. I need to cast a few more and experiment but its a start.

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: Bryan Milham on February 28, 2018, 08:20:33 PM

I think a fortune teller would be in the market for this, it has a stunning glow about it when a little light falls on it.

Title: Re: First attempt - Golden Globe
Post by: Lazurus on March 06, 2018, 09:49:34 AM

I am doing a few more of these, I adapted one of my curved scrapers to a negative rake with a small top bevel, I was dubious if this would make the claimed difference but it certainly does. the resin is strange stuff to turn, get it right and a spray of fine feather like streamers erupt from the tool tip. Get it wrong and it can chip like glass. if nothing else it is honing my tool control.