October 26, 2007
Playing with fiberglass resin
I've been playing with fiberglass resin to make a halloween costume, and man that stuff is nasty. If you've never worked with it before, fiberglass resin is basically the daemon-spawn older brother of paper-maché, only instead of paste you use a resin that sticks to everything and has toxic, explosive fumes. And instead of newspaper you use a fiberglass cloth that feathers into these long thin strands that always float into whatever you don't want them to stick to. And since they're fiberglass, they give you nasty little splinters. And once the resin dries around them they become sharp little needles poking out of your piece.
I like how it turned out, but I'll definitely think twice before using this stuff again...
Posted by bug to at October 26, 2007 9:10 AMWhat's the costume? Inquiring minds want to not only know, but also see.
Posted by: Judith at October 26, 2007 1:45 PMI have some resin and hardener which I want to use for art work at college. Could you tell me the ratio/amount of the hardener/catalyst you need to use? Also what temperature did you work in?
Posted by: Cherry at November 11, 2007 11:53 AM