Success! Epoxy Tort

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by HH1978 » Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:08 pm

Wow, just feel like I just dove inside a volcano!

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by 2fLAz » Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:33 am

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Amazing!

Funny, it immediately made me think of Fun House by The Stooges :)
^^ THAT !
Still looking for Iggy in the pic ;)

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by Deed_Poll » Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:27 am

New sheet from Rebecca!

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I really think we're getting somewhere on the vintage red front, next piece I told Rebecca to do the exact same thing but to knock the edge off the darkest patches and replace with some very slightly darkened red. Then we're going to start going to town with different swirl effects
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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by bacca51 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:05 am

wow! thats looks amazing, I can't wait to see a final pick guard on someones offset

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by maxbra » Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:30 am

Looks super!

So how will this work in the future?
Will you sell sheets, or can I send you a dwg of
my pickguard and you"ll route it? Or is this exklusive to your own builds?

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by clef051 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:00 pm

Deed_Poll wrote:
Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:27 am
New sheet from Rebecca!

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I really think we're getting somewhere on the vintage red front, next piece I told Rebecca to do the exact same thing but to knock the edge off the darkest patches and replace with some very slightly darkened red. Then we're going to start going to town with different swirl effects
This sheet came out beautiful! :?

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:53 pm

Yeah, this is looking fantastic!
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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by Ursa Minor » Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:30 pm

Wow. Beautiful stuff.
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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by antisymmetric » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:59 pm

^^What they said.
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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by invisible man » Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:48 pm

Amazing! I wonder what it would look like over a clear base with a metal shield behind it. PM'd to claim MIM Jazz Bass guinnea pig status.
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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:04 am

Deed_Poll wrote:
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If you can think of anything else that's fairly common that I've missed, please pitch in.
I suspect there could be some Squier Bass VI owners out there that would be into a scratchplate upgrade.

P.S. They look great.

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by mackerelmint » Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:16 am

I'm looking at this tort and I just see a rickenjagger in white with one of these guards, but in black and white and shades of grey. That would be neat looking.
This is an excellent rectangle

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by Deed_Poll » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:22 pm

First Jaguar guards made from Rebecca's epoxy tort are off the machine!

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They're still satin after the thicknessing operation I did on them, and all the photos I took washed out all the deep red colour, so I had to add a filter! So the colours are not representative.

I've got an epoxy polishing kit on the way with compound and some very high grit sanding pads. There's always a bit of orange peel in the sheets when I get them from Rebecca (the local artist who works with epoxy) and that's just a natural part of the drying process, hence the need to bring it down to level and sand back up to polish.

We're working on a clamping system so that she can make the sheets face down in glass, hopefully that will result in a brilliant finish from the off.

I'll take some proper pictures in sunlight tomorrow.

They're reassuringly heavy, and a little thicker than normal material, pretty much 1/8" thick, but the tort is a good amount of that (I managed to find some thinner backing material).

This piece was thicker at the edges and thinner in the middle, so after thicknessing it all evenly, one side of each guard has ended up lighter than the other where it has removed more material! I guess the way Rebecca works is to start with lighter colours and add the darker ones on top. It's something we can work on I'm sure, but I think these two look pretty cool as they are!

Cheers folks,

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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by hpr_hpr » Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:01 pm

I actually don't see the variation in tone from light to dark as a 'problem'. This is supposed to mimic a biological product and I've never come across one that's 'even' in any measurable quantity across a significant 'distance' . . . as such the variation from left to right actually adds to the effect . . . man/machine made materials are - biologically speaking - remarkable 'even'. In fact, the more things match up in biological samples the more suspicious one should be about the data.
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Re: Success! Epoxy Tort

Post by bacca51 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:41 pm

Those look so sick!!!

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