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Comment by A.D.EKER on December 9, 2015 at 9:23pm

Beautifull !! 

Comment by jabes on December 9, 2015 at 9:27am

wow, that's very impressive . hope you do well with them,

Comment by Matt McCarthy on December 9, 2015 at 5:07am

The rose design and leaves on this are actually separate veneers, all applied individually by hand, so they're not generic, cheap jobs! Most of my designs are done using this technique. I've many more designs in the pipeline, especially the crackled leaf metal patterns, as they seem to be much admired.

Comment by Matt McCarthy on December 9, 2015 at 5:03am

Hi Jabes, I press mould them. The polymer is basically a plastic clay, so I form a central plug using one mould, apply thin slices, veneers of clay, in this case the rose pattern, and then I press the whole thing in the knob mould. The pressing leaves a central hole, and after I've 'cooked' the knobs, I press in the central insert using another press. It's taken me a considerable time to perfect, but I feel I'm there now. I finish the tops in a UV cure resin, and give the rest of the knobs three brush applied coats of water based polyurethane varnish. I was epoxying the entire knob until recently, but the resin on the sides didn't always cure as fully as that on top, despite trying all sorts of light sources and rotating turntables.

Comment by jabes on December 9, 2015 at 4:32am

they're really nice, what's the process ?