Quote Originally Posted by JP5 View Post
That is too bad they didn't harden up. They looked so good too! Sounds like it wasnt too much stronger than the vegetable based resin you said was like a gummy bear after curing.
I wonder how hard alumilite scales would be by themselves. I don't remember if that is what Andrew used, but he had something he had used for brush handles he had wanted to try for scales. I know they use alumilite in "Shokwood" type scales, but I don't know how hard it is.

The product in the link certainly sounds promising from what little I read. I'll have to check out their site more.
Today was just generally a day when nothing went quite right, so I didn't have a chance to go buy new resin stuff and all sorts of other things just went ever so slightly wrong.

BUT! I haven't fully given up on the EasyCast resin. I noticed that some parts of it are harder than others, so it may just be a lack of patience on my part. I'll give'em a few more days. I'm still going to try some stuff from the Smooth-On product line though.

Unfortunately, the stuff that looks most ideal requires two things that are mutually exclusive for me -- either temperature control or good ventilation. My only option for good ventilation is going outside, where it is reliably both too chilly and too damp for any of these resins. But, the one I linked to may work.

I'm a little dubious about it having difficulties with temperatures above 115 degrees, since it's pretty easy for hot tap water to exceed that and I'd rather not have the scales be super delicate that way. The answer, as always, is experiments.

Hell, I even started looking into what it takes to mold polycarbonate.