The resin gets poured in stages. I only pour one color at a time.
The silver portion of the pendants get "staged" first. Then I pour the colors.
Can you tell that red and green were my last two pours? The resin needs at least 24 hours to cure before I pour the next color.
I "overfill" the resin in the silver well. This will get sanded down later.
When I'm done pouring the resin, I let the jewelry set in a glass pyrex dish covered with plastic wrap. I will check on it from time to time and make sure nothing is going wrong. For example, a couple of hours after I poured the green resin, one of the pendants was leaking from underneath. I was able to get it out and clean up the resin before it made a huge mess on a several pendants.
I hope to have many of these pieces ready for the Downtown Festival and Art Show in November.
I make the "master" silver piece and send it out to get multiples cast. I try to avoid soldering a piece then inserting the resin because the solder can "wick" in tarnish which will never get cleaned if there is resin over top of it. Obviously if it's a dark color resin, you will never see it, but if it's light colored or clear, oh well. If you're soldering on a bail or something, that's different. No resin on that.
ReplyDeleteYes, the solder will tarnish first. I worry that even though a solder joint may be covered by resin, the tarnished look will "wick" into the solder and work its way to the place where it joins with the resin. I might just be extra cautious, but knowing that people abuse their jewelry, I'm just trying to head off any potential problems.
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