A place to keep what I've learned in my few weeks tinkering with resin.
- Stats - Pixiss Resin:
- 1:1 mix by volume or by weight
- 30 minute working time
- 24 hour curing time
- Cures faster if you use more hardener
- 1 oz mixed is 26g
- Stats - Let's Resin x Daniel Cooper Resin:
- 1:1 mix by volume
- 30 minute working time - gets HELLA THICC after that
- 24 hour curing time
- Don't start it too warm or it gets hot and drastically shortens the working time
- Stats - Amazing Clear Cast Plus
- 1:1 mix by volume
- 30-40 minute working time
- If it thickens before you're done it can be thinned again with alcohol.
- 24-48 hour cure time
- Does seem to take longer to harden up or even get tacky
- Smelly!
- De-bubbles itself remarkably well!
- Stats - Let's Resin (standard)
- 1:1 mix by volume
- 30+ minute working time
- 16-24 hour de-mold time
- Low odor
- Dice:
- Using this dice mold
- 40g or 2 oz resin to fill - there will be extra
- New Mold received 10/4/23 - shop says Texas but item shipped from LA
- 40g or 2 oz resin to fill - there will be extra
- Easier to see into the mold and easier to remove cured dice
- Dice are bigger than #1
- Do not cure in the vacuum chamber - your dice will turn to foam
- Overfill the mold!!!
- Coasters (set of 4 round with holder):
- 10 ounces of resin to fill coaster molds and holder
- Backing in mica-colored black resin works better than black alcohol ink, but takes a lot of mica.
- Bubbles:
- Warm resin and hardener before mixing and keep mixture warm while working
- Alcohol and alcohol ink help thin the mixture and pop bubbles but too much will change your resin formula
- Vacuum the resin before pouring
- Make sure the mold is dry - water leaves "bubble" voids
- Additives:
- Mica powder hides bubbles
- Glow-in-the-dark powder sinks rather than suspends
- Color-shift mica powder can be permashifted by:
- Adding alcohol ink
- Add black to make it darker
- Add a color that matches one of the shifts to encourage it toward that color
- Adding a solid colored mica powder
- If it is a green/blue shift, adding green will sway the whole thing green
- If it is a green/blue shift, adding blue will sway the whole thing blue
- Let resin cure some before attempting to back with alcohol ink or it will sink in
- Mold-Making - Alumilite Amazing Mold Rubber
- How much do I need?
- Pour water into your mold container, then pour into a measuring glass to determine volume. Then calculate based on the 2oz:1scoop ratio in the instructions
- Mix EXTREMELY well
- Let cure longer than the instructions say - Mine took 36 hours to fully cure. Should be a firm squishy, not "this feels like there might be liquid inside" squishy.
- Daniel Cooper Petri Effect
- Tim Holtz Snow Cap white alcohol ink is too heavy. Dilute with isopropyl alcohol.
- 1:1.5 ink to alcohol still too heavy
- 1:2 too light? Maybe?
- Attempt 4 should be 1:1.75 (20 drops white ink to 35 drops alcohol) - Still too heavy - blobs sink to bottom of mold/top of piece. Returning to 1:2.
- Using the Daniel Cooper resin from Let's Resin, stirring stage is at about 30 minutes for my environment.
- Using the Amazing Clear Cast Plus resin the stirring stage is at about 45 minutes.
- Starry Alcohol Ink
- Daniel Cooper recommends Marabu Rainbow alcohol ink, but it is hard to find here. In his video #30 he claims that mixing a rainbow shift mica powder with alcohol will accomplish the same effect. Seems to work for me!
