Almost the final version of the pendant "Stained glass butterfly in epoxy".
Diameter 66 mm.
Weight up to ~60 grams.
What was done?
At the first stage:
- glass fragments of a suitable shape were selected.
- butterfly was folded
- each schmatokok was wrapped in a copper foil around the edges
- soldered together
- washed off the flux.
At the second stage (pouring with epoxy):
- poured the base
- poured half in order to place the beads
- poured completely and waited 24 hours.
The third stage (processing the bottom part):
- rough processing using a metal file
- medium processing using sandpaper 80
- fine sanding with sandpaper of 1000 grit
- sanding with sandpaper 1500 and 3000
- rough polishing.
What is left?
- fixing sinks from gas bubbles
- additional grinding and polishing
- adding a copper ring for hanging