Making Pendants on your computer - Other Crafts

GSM Gene S Morgan Member Midwest the navel of the USA Joined: Jul 18, 2011 Posts: 342	GSM Gene S Morgan Posted posted on Fri, Jul 13, 2012 6:32 PM I want to make a whole bunch of these pendant thingies. Lets mix up some resin. You stir together two clear liquids. When it gets hot (you will know) pour it into you rubber mold. Do it slow. The hardest part of casting resin is getting the bubbles out. You will see that I did not always get the job done. One thing that seems to help is to gently blowing on the resin. No, your are not cooling it. It is the carbon dioxide in your breath that helps disperse the bubbles. Once it starts to harden, it quickly turns white. You can pop it out of the mold after about 20 minutes. This is what we end up with. It is pretty close to the model. Because of the overflow in the mold I have to clean the back edge a bit. I sand the back and roughen it some to get a better painting surface.

I want to make a whole bunch of these pendant thingies. Lets mix up some resin. You stir together two clear liquids.

When it gets hot (you will know) pour it into you rubber mold. Do it slow.

The hardest part of casting resin is getting the bubbles out. You will see that I did not always get the job done. One thing that seems to help is to gently blowing on the resin. No, your are not cooling it. It is the carbon dioxide in your breath that helps disperse the bubbles. Once it starts to harden, it quickly turns white. You can pop it out of the mold after about 20 minutes.

This is what we end up with. It is pretty close to the model. Because of the overflow in the mold I have to clean the back edge a bit. I sand the back and roughen it some to get a better painting surface.

Post #643938 by Gene S Morgan on Fri, Jul 13, 2012 6:32 PM