Crafts / Craftsmen / craftswomen (craftspeople, I suppose)

Very cool, in my mind the act of pouring would be enough to agitate the mix and introduce bubbles but I guess it’s thick enough not to.
I learned something :)

The way we used to do it was to do a pour to cover your former, then the whole lot goes in the tank for vacuuming out the bubbles. (Obvs, the wider your tank the better)
Lego bricks sealed to a plastic base using plasticine, are useful for making a container into which you place your former prior to doing a pour.

You would be surprised it’s quite easy to introduce bubbles.

Another way you can do it is to pour it slowly from a height in to the mold, like a long thread, the idea is that it is so long and thin that it breaks any bubbles. Does away with the vacuum chamber too.

Also might be worth considering painting the first layer on, very thinly then pouring over that. The bubbles only matter on the face of the object so it doesn’t translate when you cast things.

What ever you choose to do, it’s worth thinking it through several times, it seems like an easy way to duplicate things but it’s easy to make a mistake or not anticipate how it will work out when you go to cast things. For instance, I made a cast from a human skull and it looks good, but the top of the mold is where the face and scalp is, so all the little bubbles show up in the face and top of the head, whereas the underside is perfect, and that bit doesn’t matter…

I like the idea of painting on the first layer. God, It's 30 years since I've done this stuff, I have a desk job these days, but one is forever learning.

I did a tool roll. It's a blatant rip off of this one which I feel a bit bad about but I won't be doing more of them so I can live with it.

2 Attachments

Just shot myself with a 16ga brad nail in the finger. First nail gun mishap. Just as stingy as you’d expect :/
#craftmendontusebrads

It's just God's way of teaching you to be more careful. If that were a labourer you'd be calling them a stupid twat.

Stupid twat!

This is very true indeed. I consider myself a fucking idiot for doing it...

In my experience, when these things happen to a labourer, it's because they are deploying what they optimistically would call initiative and using the tool in a way it clearly wasn't intended to be used.

Like joyriding in a 2 ton dumper and wiping out my truck, or trying to shoot down sparrows with a staple gun.....

My fave was watching a guy try and fell a small cherry tree with a stump grinder showing off to an apprentice, fell straight back onto the machine and smashed up the air intake, control box and exhaust. Boss made him pay out his wage for being such a tosser. People trying to be clever with kit they don’t fully understand is always good for a giggle...

That's the one. Or running themselves over with a scissor lift because they can't be bothered climbing into it to drive it so walk in front of it driving it on the tether.

Yep, they're a living (neck downwards only) advert for the Darwin Awards. They breed prolifically, nature's way of keeping them off the endangered list.

Who on the forum has the space, skills, and equipment to make me a new MDF case for my three technics, my mixer, and three sets of isolators?
I got rid of the last one I designed and made a few years ago between moves and really want to set up my decks again.
I don't have the tools to be routing holes and angling edges myself. Xxx

Do you have plans?

Not at the moment. I was just seeing if there is anyone on here able to do it. It won't take long to measure up though.

Just asking as I might have been able to do it this week if you had detailed plans but I don't have enough spare time for any back and forth planning. If you had a working design in Sketchup it's easy enough for me to make it.

I'm a joiner with a PA system so I do make a few soundsystem/dj bits.

No worries, I understand.
I wouldn't want to cause you any stress.
I don't even know what Sketchup is...I'm still in the pencil and paper age. 🙄
I'll get my measurements sorted and knock up a sketch though so I'm ready for if anyone else can help.

It's worth taking some time to design it properly and 3d modelling tools are great for that. Sketchup has a free version that's quite useful for looking at a design before you go ahead and make it.

Sorry I can't get into designing it at the moment, would probably be more fun that what I'm doing!

No worries. I've always designed all the custom furniture for my studios and workshops, I've just never made the jump away from pencil and paper. 😁

If you have your drawings I can convert them into digital drawings @Airhead can work with?

I'm going to get it measured up as soon as I can.
Cheers for the help folks.

Maybe check out buildingbloqs if u have the know-how to do it yourself.

Unfortunately I work six days a week 🙁

That Bloqs space is interesting. Pricing is high though.