Very cool! You might want to use just bright colors for almost the entire piece, and save the darker ones to make diamonds or hexagons to mark the placements of 12:00, 3:00, 8:00 and 9:00. This is a really neat idea.
Round pencils will give you a gap between each one to allow the epoxy to surround them. Also, epoxy is easier on tools and less toxic to breath than polyester resin. In my experience anyway. I also like to spray lacquer between sanding grits to try and reduce the smearing effect of the pencil "lead". Fun project for sure!
Awesome clock Tim
Very cool and a great idea! I'm going to give this a try. Thank you for sharing!
Very cool! You might want to use just bright colors for almost the entire piece, and save the darker ones to make diamonds or hexagons to mark the placements of 12:00, 3:00, 8:00 and 9:00. This is a really neat idea.
Interesting.🙂🙂
Round pencils will give you a gap between each one to allow the epoxy to surround them. Also, epoxy is easier on tools and less toxic to breath than polyester resin. In my experience anyway. I also like to spray lacquer between sanding grits to try and reduce the smearing effect of the pencil "lead". Fun project for sure!
Ive seen this done most often with Epoxy
Neat clock, Tim. In chemistry that's called hexagonal close packing.
Bill
The problem with fibreglass resin is that it EATS your steel tools, though there's not really a better way to hold them together.