Tools and materials I propose:
I begun by cutting a beautiful piece of olive wood on the bandsaw.
Silicon cake molds we use in the kitchen, work perfectly with resin.
I mixed some slow setting epoxy resin. I also added a few drops of blue dye. Then I degassed the resin on my vacuum chamber.
After about a week my castings were rock hard.
I chucked a sanding adapter on the lathe. With that I flattened the bottom of my casting.
I then hot glued the piece on a wooden block which was mounted on a face plate. I turned the piece true with a flat carpenter’s chisel as a scraper.
Then I parted the piece off and flattened both the casting and the block again.
The ripples were made with eccentric turning. So I hot glued again the piece using an eccentric pivot point.
First I drilled the hole for the string.
I then used a homemade round scraper to create my ripples.
Once I was happy with my shape, I parted the piece off and started sanding.
I begun with 100grit, moved on to 220 and 340. I started wet sanding at 500 using mineral oil. I sanded until 1000 and then continued with my micro mesh sanding pads.
I then set my lathe at it’s lowest speed and buffed the piece with my three polishing wheels.
Overall the pendant came out nice. If I made it again I would use less blue dye, to increase it’s transparency. But this is ocean ripple and deep blue is a perfect match.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this one, because that was it!
See you soon with a new project video!
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