Oct 202010
One of my recent projects – one that provides no profit, gave me no joy in feeling the need to do, but that I felt the need to do anyway – was to make a grave marker for Koshka. It’s pretty plain, and in the end it’s a piece of crap… I think I got the mix wrong for the cement, because you can tear it apart with fingernails. But it was done under something of a time constraint (the need to be done by the time I left).
When I get home, I’ll cast another using some other form of cement or mortar mix.
4 Responses to “Memorial for Koshka”
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In school I learned hpw to make a good looking faux marble material out of polyester casting resin and calcium carbonate. By using different colors and swirling the mix together while pouring the colors, you ended up with something that looked just like marble.
If you make a clear acrylic box you can have the sign shop make a brass plate you could cast in place or they could cut the letters directly into the part.
It is to be as much hand-made by me as it can be. Whipping up my own sheets of Lexan, though, is a bit much…
You could always coat and or encase it in clear resin in order to preserve what you have already done. I should last longer then just concrete. I recommend Smooth-On Crystal Clear 202.
I was thinking something very simple. You can buy the one piece clear acrylic picture frames at Aaorn Brothers, like a 16″x20″ that’s about 1″ tall and fill that. If you glue the lettering in reverse to the inside and cast the resin around the lettering, it will be imbedded, the acrylic should bond to the resin. if it doesn’t or if its a styrene box, remove it, the resin will be fully cured. if the resin attacks the box, the box can be dissolved w/acetone, it wont hurt the cured resin and the block can be sanded and polished pretty easy