Mother of Pearl Pen Blanks - New Recipe - Pen Turning Blank Casting

Casting pen blanks with polyester resin using Pearl-Ex interference powders to simulate mother of pearl/abalone color shimmer. Shout-out to Zac Higgins on this project.
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[@ZacHiggins]

Those turned out awesome!! I hadn't seen anyone use PR for them yet, great to see it works with PR too. Thanks for the shoutout =D

[@FrickWerkz]

Thanks for watching my video, you're the master man and really the reason I am doing this and making vids in the first place. Great to see your comment.

[@michaelhibbert4393]

The block turned out brilliant....really pleased....can’t wait for your video now with the black swirl

[@tedspens]

Turn one! 😁 The blanks look great. I'll have to test it with Liquid Diamonds so we'll have all the most popular resins covered.

[@MichaelMassimino]

Did you cure this in a pressure pot of just leave it out to do its thing?

[@michaelhibbert4393]

Just copied your mother of Pearl cast today....in the pressure pot now....leaving overnight....be interesting to see how they turned out

[@FrickWerkz]

Please let me know, these turned out so be some of my favorites.

[@OttoTroublemaker]

I would love to pick your brain on a project that I'm working on. Its my first time even working with resin and its ambitious I could use some advice from one Oklahoma boy to another

[@jlk819]

Really cool effect. Nice looking blanks. How many drops catalyst per ounce are you using?

[@FrickWerkz]

8 drops per oz. is what I use most of the time

[@tumersenyuva]

Very nice effects. You added a few drop something after interference color powder. What was that? Thank you very much.

[@FrickWerkz]

That is the catalyst drops for the polyester resin to start the cure process.

[@tumersenyuva]

@@FrickWerkz Thank you sir.

[@FrickWerkz]

@@tumersenyuva Glad to help

[@pauls064]

Would that work with epoxy resin as well?

[@FrickWerkz]

Yes, this should work the same with both epoxy or urethane resins.

[@pauls064]

@@FrickWerkz thanks! Just ordered pearl ex. Wonder what Interference Gold does...🤔

[@SilverBack.]

Have you got links to the powders you used for this pour. PLEASE.

[@FrickWerkz]

Forgot that, just added to the description.

[@SilverBack.]

Thank you, just ordered some 👍👍👍👍👍

[@FrickWerkz]

I also went back to TKB and ordered more of the pigments, got the Blackstar colors and several others. Check out the ones named Nebula, Astral, and Cosmos. The collection shows sold out but you can order them apart too.

[@marthasegura3719]

Where do you find those molds

[@FrickWerkz]

Link in the description to a 3-pack on Amazon.