[Woodcarver] resin

[Tom Clarke]

I am sorry, sometime i tend to ramble, that is what happens when the oxygen
gets low.  I have a relief carving and i poured the two part resin on it and
ended up with low spots and some rough spots that didn't get covered with
the resin.  you can see through it, is that transparent?  the piece is only
about 1/4 inch in depth at the lowest spot.  thanks for your help
  pat

       Hmmm, I don't think I have good news, hopefully someone else who
knows more will chime in. From my (limited) experience it's going to be
difficult to sand the rough spots smooth AND keep them from showing. Yes,
see thru is transparent. Translucent is where light comes thru but you can't
really see thru. Opaque is when light doesn't come thru. Anywho, I suspect
you either used the wrong stuff or used it wrong. What I've used in the past
has always been fairly self-leveling until it starts to set. The two part
resins use a chemical reaction to set and it doesn't start till you mix
them. Course, if they're old the reliability breaks down. Also, the ones
I've used didn't sand very well. You'd have to go thru multiple courses of
finer and finer sandpaper down to practically polishing it before it's get
transparent again, it'd stay translucent where the sandpaper scratched the
surface. You'd get rid of the major rough spots but then have the
translucence to deal with. Another thing I don't know is whether you can
layer the stuff, I never tried that.

  Sorry,

  Tom (nj)  ;--(



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