dai sensei
20th June 2010, 07:45 PM
John (Gawdelpus) came around yesterday and we mucked around making a few molds and blanks for casting. The latest craze O/S, or one of them at the moment, is shredded money blanks using US or old Canadian money. So thought we might give them a try with our currency.
I have been thinking about doing some in Au$'s for a while, but needed to get around the legal problems with damaging Au$'s, plus I had no intention of wasting my own money :oo:. I found some fake, slightly larger and only printed one side $50 notes by a gold buying company, using them to advertise their company on the other side. They were a similar plastic type material, and once shredded it was unlikely you could tell the difference between the real and the fake, so I thought I would give them a go.
So I shredded two up to try. Being a $50 only on one side meant I had to stick the shreds on one by one on the tube with thick CA. I wasn't exactly happy with it initially, as there wasn't much depth to the shreds :-, but once I had enough thickness I cast it in a resin saver mold to see how it turned out.
As an alternative John suggested I stick 2 notes together so it was a $50 on both sides. So I did and then shredded them so I could place them in a standard blank mold for casting. I then drilled and stuck in a sleeve as normal. Because the 2 notes stuck together makes them stiffer, they did tend to stack rather than bundle, which I was worried about :(.
Anyway, here they both are, on Gold Ti Elegant Beauty's. As expected, the single sided ones do not have much depth, but is Ok I guess, as you can see it is from $50 notes. The other has an interesting pattern, but you can’t tell they are notes. Perhaps if they were made from long strips of shred, instead of the shorter random stuff, they would bundle better. As the notes were printed on white paper/plastic, after turning down to size, I stained the exposed paper edges with a yellow dye before finishing them with CA.
Either way, now I have tried it, I don't think I'll be doing any more :no:. Time to move on to the next challenge - feathers :rolleyes:.
Cheers
I have been thinking about doing some in Au$'s for a while, but needed to get around the legal problems with damaging Au$'s, plus I had no intention of wasting my own money :oo:. I found some fake, slightly larger and only printed one side $50 notes by a gold buying company, using them to advertise their company on the other side. They were a similar plastic type material, and once shredded it was unlikely you could tell the difference between the real and the fake, so I thought I would give them a go.
So I shredded two up to try. Being a $50 only on one side meant I had to stick the shreds on one by one on the tube with thick CA. I wasn't exactly happy with it initially, as there wasn't much depth to the shreds :-, but once I had enough thickness I cast it in a resin saver mold to see how it turned out.
As an alternative John suggested I stick 2 notes together so it was a $50 on both sides. So I did and then shredded them so I could place them in a standard blank mold for casting. I then drilled and stuck in a sleeve as normal. Because the 2 notes stuck together makes them stiffer, they did tend to stack rather than bundle, which I was worried about :(.
Anyway, here they both are, on Gold Ti Elegant Beauty's. As expected, the single sided ones do not have much depth, but is Ok I guess, as you can see it is from $50 notes. The other has an interesting pattern, but you can’t tell they are notes. Perhaps if they were made from long strips of shred, instead of the shorter random stuff, they would bundle better. As the notes were printed on white paper/plastic, after turning down to size, I stained the exposed paper edges with a yellow dye before finishing them with CA.
Either way, now I have tried it, I don't think I'll be doing any more :no:. Time to move on to the next challenge - feathers :rolleyes:.
Cheers