Not the best weather for casting, cool and wet, but I'm bored and trying hard to avoid the chores around the place :rolleyes:
I had a small coolabah root offcut from some pepper grinders I made a while back that I'd kept as its surface shows signs of amazing grain. Decided it was time to slice and cast it up. As it is a relatively dark timber I decided to go for a Pear White Pearlex powder with a little bit of solid white pigment so it wasn't so transparent. I cast 2 x 3 blank molds and 2 individual molds with the left overs.
Pearl White Coolabah Root blanks.jpg
As usual I had plenty of left over resin, and I had some seeds from some sort of tree dried and ready for casting, as you do :U. I put them in a square silicon mold just for this purpose large enough for long tube pens. I have no idea what these seeds/nuts are, weird shaped things I picked up on my big trip, but I've forgotten where and from what tree :doh:. They have a dark outside but a lighter brown fibrous inside.
Pearl white mystery seeds.jpg
All of these have a relatively hard solid timber so I decided stabilising was not necessary. Gave them a quick coat of NCL to bring out the grain and seal them
Cheers
I had a small coolabah root offcut from some pepper grinders I made a while back that I'd kept as its surface shows signs of amazing grain. Decided it was time to slice and cast it up. As it is a relatively dark timber I decided to go for a Pear White Pearlex powder with a little bit of solid white pigment so it wasn't so transparent. I cast 2 x 3 blank molds and 2 individual molds with the left overs.
Pearl White Coolabah Root blanks.jpg
As usual I had plenty of left over resin, and I had some seeds from some sort of tree dried and ready for casting, as you do :U. I put them in a square silicon mold just for this purpose large enough for long tube pens. I have no idea what these seeds/nuts are, weird shaped things I picked up on my big trip, but I've forgotten where and from what tree :doh:. They have a dark outside but a lighter brown fibrous inside.
Pearl white mystery seeds.jpg
All of these have a relatively hard solid timber so I decided stabilising was not necessary. Gave them a quick coat of NCL to bring out the grain and seal them
Cheers
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