KymCast

I was contacted by Dave who had been looking for a redback spider gear knob to match his red Interior.

At the time i didn’t think it would be a problem finding a good sized specimen, but maybe due to the floods and high humidity, i could not locate a decent sized one in all the usual places. A few small ones but nothing that would look good inside a gear knob. 

I decided to see what it would look like creating a modelled spider. I ran the idea through Dave and we decided to give it a go at least until a good sized specimen of a real one was located and stabilised. Stabilisation can take weeks.

After printing a spider shape, i heated and shaped the legs carefully to bring life into it. Then after some paint i sent a picture to dave who gave the thumbs up to see if it would cast well into resin.

I wasn’t sure if the plastic from the 3d printed spider would melt in the resin as it heats up to cure. So i decided to do some tests first and as i suspected the plastic melted and warped the spider

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I set about doing some tests with different coatings on the plastic and found one that worked well at preventing the plastic from changing. I coated a new spider print and painted it up then cast it into the gear knob.

Here is Dave’s new Gear Knob installed. Thank you for the photos Dave!

Kymcast

ABN 94 672 295 981

Toowoomba Qld 4350

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