Great video. When turning pens do you find many air bubbles when you are turning the pens? Asking as I would like to get into this but don't necessarily want to invest in the pressure pot right off of the bat.

Thanks for the time lapse curing! I always think that when I swirl colors, they will roughly stay where I put them and this is a great reminder that resin does what it does. As for the issue with the green, could it be that by mixing you used a little too much color? I had a couple of blanks come out of the mold recently still sticky. I figured I could cut them up and use them another way in another project, and lo and behold, 3 days later the blanks were cured. Turned without an issue.

@FrickWerkz

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I love the time-lapse parts of the videos, I actually edited together a bunch of them and loaded a video of all of the cures I had done up to that point. The green issue seems to be with several different liquid green pigments, I think it might be something to do with their chemical makeup that doesn't play well with the resin.

Where did you get your new pen molds from? And how are they to work with over time do they hold up? I ask as they are a bit thin walled. I'm have been using Ptown Subbie molds & I'm looking for other options.

@FrickWerkz

4 жыл бұрын

Well they are actually ice cube molds you can buy on Amazon in a set of 3 for $15 - amzn.to/2qX2g2B. They can cook a little stiff in the middle dividers as you work with them but I still have my original that has had hundreds of blanks made and still works.

Hello I am looking into making my own blanks to turn. May I ask did you use a pressure pot? I have watched a ton of tutorials and some people use it and some do not.

@FrickWerkz

3 жыл бұрын

No pressure pot on these, polyester resin doesn't need one with these smaller pours like pen blanks or the shave brush handle/bottle stopper blanks I do. I would use one on Alumilite or an epoxy resin for sure, those will always have bubbles in them that will affect the final turning if not.

Ciao bel lavoro un saluto caloroso dall Italia 🇮🇹...volevo chiederti se la resina che usi poliestere che differenza c’è con quella epossidica all acqua aspetto tue info grazie

Donde comprar los moldes

Did you put the catalyst in before or after the pigment?

@FrickWerkz

4 жыл бұрын

You want to put the pigment in first and then catalyze when you are ready to pour.

Can I use amazing clear cast plus for blanks?

@FrickWerkz

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, from what I understand that is a polyester resin and it will give you the same results as you see in my videos. Thanks for your comment!

What do you do with them now? You called them pen planks, please show, if not done previously, how these evolve. If you have shown please inform myself and other curious peoples where we can watch the evolvement into pens. Thanks. I do love the colour range.

@arankalle4354

2 жыл бұрын

You can see so many videos about how fountain pens are turned. Those handmade pens look very beautiful!! Acrylic fountain pens...

what brand resin do you recommend? Im having trouble with cheap resin not curing hard after 1 week.

@FrickWerkz

Жыл бұрын

I like to use Silmar-41 from US Composites when I use polyester resins. The main thing with the polyester resin is its freshness, not the brand. The fresher the resin the better it works. Also if you are having issue with resin curing you can use more drops of the catalyst. Also need to make sure it is warm enough and it isn't very humid, those can affect resin curing.

Could the green be because of how much green colour you put in, you said you did so I know sometimes it can be too much colour that can unbalance it? Just wondering

@FrickWerkz

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it could be that but I have not seen the same phenomenon with other colors, no matter how much I use. Only the greens do that and affect the cure the way I've seen it happen before and in these blanks.

@kerrividler6571

4 жыл бұрын

FrickWerkz interesting it’s the one colour. Be good to know the reason

I wonder if you can put these molds in a pressure pot🤔

@FrickWerkz

2 жыл бұрын

You can, but it won't do too much as this resin rarely ends up catching bubbles in the cure.

Good to see how others do it, but here's a tip. Put your camera on a tripod so that the view is not bouncing around all over the screen like a mad woman's breakfast.

@marthasegura3719

4 жыл бұрын

Where did u get those molds?

@marthasegura3719

4 жыл бұрын

Where did u find those molds

@AusMiner

4 жыл бұрын

@@marthasegura3719 seriously - you don't want those molds. They are far too thin in the walls, and while they work well while new, they will fail very quickly. I make my own molds from silicon rubber and I make the walls about 3/8 to 1/2 inch thick.

@marthasegura3719

4 жыл бұрын

@@AusMiner that's not good. I must try to make my own . Ty so much for that info.

@paul2389

4 жыл бұрын

@@marthasegura3719 You can get them on amazon, they are ice trays, and they are pretty pretty cheap. I also use 3/4" PVC pipe to get nice round blanks that I poor my extra resin into.