Hi folks, My name is Eat_the_food and I'm in love with this hobby.
Though I've always been a fan of quality input devices. I'd say that I didn't really get into keyboards with real seriousness until around September/November of last year. About that time there were quite a few exciting artisan raffles happening so I decided to join a few. Didn't win anything. Decided to enter a few more over the next several weeks. No luck. Gave it another chance right around Xmas/new years and still nothing. -sadface-
Hmm.. Maybe I should try making some caps instead...
So I spent a few days intensively researching what I could find on resin casting. Binge thread, Booper thread, Resinaddicts forum, etc, etc, etc. Looked fun and not overly intimidating to get into so I decided to give it a shot. Silicone, resin, colors check. Vacuum chamber, pump check. Pressure pot check. Let's do it.
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After a few tries the straight cast blanks started turning out well.
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A few days and a million tries later, bubbles in the casts were mostly eliminated (pressurepot is your friend). Thicker R4 blanks were starting to come out well too.
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KeyKollectiv are one of my favorite maker teams and I've always been fascinated by thier design for Furt. Embedding things into resin looks awesome so gave it a try with the Gelatinous Cube cap. Once I figured out the proper timing for the multiple layers of resin, they coming out as intended.
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Multi-part cap experiment. Perhaps a stupid idea.
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****ups jar. Mostly contain caps that were the victim of Bubble-boy but occasionally there's a cap that has a paintbrush hair or some other intended particulate encapsulated into it.
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Four-at-a-time molds
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Build up dat inventory and maybe do a sale?
Well, that's my personal cap making journey in pics for the month of January 2016. Had a ton of fun making these. As a closing note, since I mostly make these at night and also often enjoy a drink before bed I've decided to title my efforts Nightcaps. I hope you like it!