Yesterday, communistwitchdr had approached me with an idea.
He called it,
U-cap. The concept is that a person would send a
face of some sort: animal, human, or robot. A caricature would be sculpted
based off of the photo on a key of the buyer's choice.
Now- I took the idea and ran with it. The key would be cast up to 10 times or until the mold breaks in the colors of the person's choosing.
In the end the recipient would have at most 10 keys of the master caricature, and they would get the mold it was made in. The mold would be signed, and an accompanying note would contain details as to the date the key was made and color.
I'm not terribly fond of this because of the workload, and so it would not be cheap. I've considered doing more sculpts in addition to casting, but honestly they both take up so much time >.< Getting the custom sculpt cap orders complete has not been easy. They just take up GOBS of time. Time which is simultaneously being taxed trying to keep my supplies from expiring and refining my casting/mold making techniques.
I've made a new kind of mold technique which should increase the longevity of each mold I produce. The only byproduct is about 2 hours of prep for each stage of the mold. But if a mold can last for 20-30 casts before breaking it would be worth it.
That's all there is for today. U-cap? New mold techniques. Yup
