Mortar with a twist or should I say split

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Here is a new piece, soon to be mortar. The timber is the other end of (the salt pot) piece, but with splits so I am used forstner bits to drill out the split, I have glued in some twigs and will fill in with resin. It’s a WIP so stay tuned (I got the idea from the interwebs)

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Now added the resin wells
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[Tonyz]

this will (should :D) be stunning when finished.
I dont usually like resin but that is bowls etc

look forward to progress

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One step further this morning, it might turn out a bit dark but who knows.

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got the blow torch there to clean up air bubbles as they surface.

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So the resin was cast, the walls came down and the turning began.

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All going well
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And then, it all went pear shaped. I had a catch.
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but then we recovered.
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for all but a minute.
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but this time the pieces disappeared somewhere. But we recovered and turned it into a smaller bowl. So from mortar to ring bowl.
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[Tonyz]

its buggas like you who produce stunning pieces like tis that make us mortal amateurs want to give up :-

As I said elsewhere I dont really get excited about resin but you have changed my mind. thankyou

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its buggas like you who produce stunning pieces like tis that make us mortal amateurs want to give up :-

As I said elsewhere I dont really get excited about resin but you have changed my mind. thankyou

Tony, thank you for your kind words, but credit where credit is due, I’ll accept credit for recovering from the disaster, but that’s about it, I’m as mortal as you are. And this was funnily enough a test piece as my first time casting.

i don’t like failure but I’m also quite tight so don’t like spending a lot of money on expensive gear to gain the same result ie pressure pots/ vacuum pots etc so I found an alternative which is a deep pour casting resin and was $66 from memory. A small price to pay to get me into casting resins. Here is what I used from Barnes

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