- And this resin is pretty stinky.
I mean, this is harmful vapors.
You know I read the can
when I first got the vapors
contact with skin
cause eyes, irritant, flammable.
So really fun stuff.
We're working in this huge building,
so I'm not too worried about it.
There's a bit of an airflow in here.
If you're gonna do this at home, outside,
but if you're gonna do it outside,
you don't wanna do it in direct sunlight.
If you got a a pop-up tent,
you've got a umbrella or anything
you can have over you,
the direct sunlight, especially on a warm day
is gonna make this stuff kick off
a lot quicker than what you'd want it to.
It was setting up
when I did this test one in my garage.
It got to a thickness
where you couldn't work with it.
You would wreck it probably within about
four minutes, maybe five,
but it all depends on how much catalyst
you you put in.
So I'm gonna mix this in my cup here.
Gotta look across my sphere
to see how much resin I'm actually gonna need
versus the cup.
And it's not that much
because we're you know,
the resin if you look at the cup,
obviously you got a squared off corner.
There's no squared off corner here
so you can use a lot less than what you think.
All right, so the stinky resin.
I'm just eyeballing this.
I'm not weighing anything out.
You just gotta work with it long enough
to know how much you you need.
I'm gonna go a little bit extra.
I'd rather have a little bit more,
and waste a little bit of the resin
than not have enough and end up
with a big air bubble
because the the paper didn't set down far enough.
Catalyst.
This is just like a fiberglass resin,
very similar to fiberglass resin.
If you do any fiberglass mold making,
you'll know it smells exactly the same.
Catalyst is very, very similar.
It's gonna kick off pretty much the same.
It's a little bit warmer in here
than the last time I poured this up.
So I'm not gonna use as much catalyst.
And this is just like a dropper bottle.
And I got about 20 drops in there.
So that should kick off relatively so.
Now I'm gonna stir this slowly.
I don't wanna mix a ton of air into this.
I want the least amount of bubbles,
but you can't help but agitate this,
and get bubbles into this,
and see it's going a little bit green.
I'm not sure if it's showing up on camera or not,
but that's because of the chemical reaction
that's taking place right now
with the catalyst and the resin.
And that will go clear.
Okay.
So I'm gonna pour this similar to pouring
a soda or a beer, typically you get the bottle,
and you get it close to the tap
so you don't get as much foam or bubbles.
I'm gonna do this very similar way,
is pour this as close to the plastic as possible.
So I'm getting it right up to that line,
that black line that we had earlier.
Now I'm gonna pour some right on the eye
'cause I wanna make sure that that is gonna catch
some of the plastic as well.
some of the resin
that I already poured into the eye.
So I want this wet when it goes in.
Don't want it dry.
Gonna bend this a little bit.
Just drop it in, push it.
I don't want to get too much resin
on the outside.
So there's gonna be air bubbles
in there no matter what.
That's just the nature of this.
If we've got,
you don't wanna put this in an evacuator
if you guys even have.
If you know what an evacuator is,
that actually draws the air,
it's a chamber that we have,
and we typically use it for silicone mold making,
but it pulls the bubbles.
It pulls the air out of the chamber.
That would be bad for this.
What we'd really like to have is a pressure pot,
that we could put this into,
and it actually squeezes the air
and makes the bubbles really tiny.
Right now we're just hoping that,
I'm just turning this a little bit,
making sure that the resins hitting the eye,
and there's no left, right, up or down
on the paper.
On the the actual eye artwork that we did.
So it doesn't really matter how it goes in.
I know that this is, with these marks,
and the veining that we did here,
that's the side, the corners of our eye.
You know the inside or outside corner.
But it doesn't really matter how I turn this,
but I just wanna make sure
that when I do the other one,
it doesn't look exactly the same.
It's not in the same position,
and more than likely it's not going to be.