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Post by Mastercaster on Nov 26, 2015 20:51:54 GMT -8
   This is my 17 year old grandson Leland. Lily, his 3 year old sister is deaf and has cochlear implants. They only come in this plain design and in limited colors. So I decided to teach this young man some of my resin casting talent and perhaps he can create his own company. I thought it might be cool to make new designs by adding charms that I got really cheap from Ebay. So cheap in fact that I found charms by the bagfull from China with free postage! That's pretty hard to beat for master parts! Here are a few that I picked out and he is busy claying up more designs. Hopefully he can start a company with his parents named "Lily's Ears". My wife, Patti grew up with a deaf sister. And a gene that causes deafness runs in her moms side of the family. Patti has a couple of deaf cousins as well. It is actually nice for me to not hear them talking but the fingers are sure moving. The only sign language I know is the one finger salute! LOL www.origamiowl.com/storyHas anybody heard of origami owl jewelry? Started by a 14 year old girl here in the valley, it is now a multi million dollar business! I just can't believe all the people that work for this company here in Chandler, AZ Some how, some way I'm gonna get rich!  Here are the designs we will begin with. Some may not fit though. He will be able to make these in all kinds of colors and swirled colors too.   Swirled like these cute little dogs. These dogs started out as this pewter brooch. Are you ready to see some magic happen? |
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Post by Mastercaster on Nov 27, 2015 10:24:15 GMT -8
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Post by Mastercaster on Nov 28, 2015 9:11:25 GMT -8
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Post by drkerry on Jun 7, 2016 15:19:20 GMT -8
Wow Greg she is a cutie, kind of a quinky dink my daughter also named Lilly has hearing loss and wears two Sensai Hearing aids.
What your doing here will make a world of difference in your Grand Daughters heart!!!!!
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Post by Mastercaster on Jun 7, 2016 16:11:50 GMT -8
Hi Dr. Kerry, Are you really a doctor? I do really want to know! I do appreciate your commenting here on this thread. Does Lilly also have Cochlear implants? Just this past week I decided to pick this project up and work with it again. I should post some photos of how I am making master parts. I decided to do them a different way.  Here is a group shot of master parts. Paul Revere started out as a tie tack that was kind of expensive. Some are charms some are lapel pins. I needed some tiny letters for the microphones. I looked around my house and I found what I needed on the bottom of my clock radio in my bathroom. I just poured a little bit of silicone over the words and then poured resin in and squeegeed it down to pulled out nice tiny letters. I put the letters on small piece of double stick tape and then applied it to the microphone. First I took the microphone charm and removed the ring and then poured silicone over it. Once cured I poured in some resin. Once cured I sanded it down evenly to get a half part that I could lay flat. Then I made another mold and pulled nice copies from it and glued them to the master coil cover parts.  Here is a USA number 1 lapel pin. I removed the enamel paint and the nail part from the back and sanded it all nice and flat. I then laid it on a already cured silicone bed and poured a small amount of silicone over it. Once cured I removed the pin, sprayed it with mold release and poured silicone in the mold. Once cured you can peel it out easily and then set it on the coil cover to hug the curvature of the part and then super glue it down. |
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Post by Mastercaster on Jun 9, 2016 13:11:50 GMT -8
 Here are four USA #1 masters ready to have the mold made. If you are attempting something similar to this you need to spray mold release over the parts first. The emblem attached to the cover is the same silicone you will make the mold out of.  Boxed in, tagged and ready for silicone. |
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Post by Mastercaster on Jun 10, 2016 20:25:39 GMT -8
 Ready for silicone. |
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Post by Mastercaster on Jun 13, 2016 20:04:45 GMT -8
  Here is the first set. A nice red, white and blue patriotic set. Unfortunately one of the parts does not have good detail. For some reason the number one on one was not cured properly so the detail was destroyed. Now it only makes three good parts at one time. There always seems to be some aspect of any given project that fails and causes me to work harder and causes stress to me. |
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Post by FMW on Jun 14, 2016 9:33:30 GMT -8
We call those "limited successes". You could always call the off parts "soft focus" and claim you meant to do it that way.
FMW
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Post by drkerry on Mar 8, 2017 9:11:41 GMT -8
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