Posts Tagged ‘clear finish’

it’s like a… light wednesday.

rexlightercase0112

Well boys and girls. I've mailed Amy's lighter off to her. In fact, what I've mailed her is the first reproduction from the mold. She was really diggin' the clear look, so I buffed it up with some "exra-fine" steel wool and shipped it off with a few additional finishing touches. After talking it over with Amy, she's planning on giving the clear one to Tod for his birthday next week (Aug 3rd). In the meantime, I will try to fix the original and paint it for them. Otherwise, I will paint and ship a second reproduction.   Amy, you have been wonderful throughout this whole process. Even though the mold making turned out to be quite the , your spirits never waned.   If anyone else is interested in a reproduction of this lighter case, contact me. It is a limited edition piece, so it's on a first come...

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Just Gowjus…

molds

If this weekend was a bad weekend for casting from newly made molds - nobody told me! I lined em up, sprayed 'em down, filled 'em up, and popped out a few pieces. It's a bit more involved than that, but you get the idea. What we have here are the 3-part-molds for the top and bottom of Amy's lighter case. The orange colored ones are the 2-part mold for the Rook, and the little ones in the upper-right hand corner are for the Pawn. You may have noticed the use of dominoes in one of my other mold making tutorials. I don't know why I have so many of them but, I use them to help build-up a level wall around the piece. Otherwise I'd just have gobs of clay all around it. The mold for the second half of the lighter case goes just like the first half except BETTER! As you...

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