Hey fellow crafters, Cherry wood and I have history. One of my early pours went straight onto a hexagon-routed but unsealed cherry panel, and I got a forest of bubbles instead of the clean surface I had in mind – I still use that photo in my beginner mistakes guide as a warning to us […]
Hey fellow crafters, There’s been a lot happening in the Guild workshop since last time. The first June supporter draw is done, and the July gift is being built. You might also find it interesting what I learnt while making custom silicone molds and casting resin water panels, which we’ll touch on today too. My […]
Hey fellow crafters, I set out to make a piece for our first Guild Gold supporters. Something worth the trust of being at the top of the Guild. No one signed up at Gold yet – and that’s fine. It takes time to build a true community and trust, and I’d rather earn that level […]
Hey fellow crafters, How’s the time been since the last issue? On my side it’s been a busy stretch. I got my old Shapeoko 2 CNC installed and running again in the new workshop, fought a planer that ruined an end-grain board glue-up, added a Laguna drum sander to the tooling lineup, and worked through […]
Hey fellow crafters, Most resin inlay guides show you how to pour colored epoxy into a routed channel and call it done. That works. It also looks like colored epoxy in a routed channel. This guide covers malachite inlay – specifically, inlaying real crushed malachite stone into oak, locked in place with transparent resin, flush […]
Hey fellow crafters, You’ve seen the finished photos. The deep green stone flush against the wood, the resin surface perfectly level, no gaps, no air bubbles. It looks precise. Controlled. Like something that went exactly to plan. You voted to keep the malachite art panel as wall art. So be it. Last touch-ups are underway […]
Hey fellow crafters, ❝ In Part 1: Malachite Stone Inlay in Oak, we covered routing grain-following channels into an oak board, placing real crushed malachite, and finishing flush. The epoxy panel in these photos is the other half of the same piece. This guide covers how it was made – and the clay wall technique […]
3D Resin Cast Hey fellow crafters, You mixed a color that looked perfect in the cup. Poured it. Waited 24 hours. Opened the mold to find something cloudy, muddy, or just not what you expected. The pour itself was fine. The resin was good. So what happened? Most color problems in epoxy start before the […]
Well, I’m an engineer by training and a maker by compulsion. My workshop started as a 15m² room at the back of a family flat in central Bohemia. It was the leftover space nobody had a plan for. I claimed it. That was 2010. The first real project I still remember was a chest for […]
Hey fellow crafters, resin coloring has been one of your top three questions since I started tracking what you actually struggle with. Wrong colorant, wrong timing, wrong substrate — and the result in the mold looks nothing like what was in the cup. So here’s the guide that actually covers it properly: How to Color […]